They thought we were animals sitting down there. "We didn't do anything wrong for those young people. "The next minute they got out and they pick up the rock and they start smashing the car. "There were two cars pulling up on the side of the creek and those white couples, they said 'hello' to us and we said 'hello boys'," Ms Sampson said. They try to come in only during the day and stick to shops they know, but they say they have also been attacked out of town. "They shouldn't do that I didn't call the police."īoth women say the violence is enough to make them afraid to come into town. "Two in the front, three in the back, they've been throwing ice in my face," she said. Her friend Audrey Martin says she has been pelted with ice. Ms Sampson says she has had people throw things at her too. "I've seen a lot of young people driving past with a car, putting their finger up to us, carrying on swearing," she said. She says racism in the town is very real, but people have been too uncomfortable or too ashamed to speak about it.
She was a teacher for 15 years and lives now with her family in a town camp just outside Alice Springs. Pamela Sampson is an Aboriginal woman in her 50s.
Now some Indigenous women have decided to speak for the first time about the racism they say is taking hold in Alice Springs. The conviction earlier this year of a group of white teenagers for killing an Aboriginal man put the town in an uncomfortable spotlight. Racism is a subject that triggers strong reactions in Alice Springs, not least because the town is acutely aware of its reputation.
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