" Historian Liz Conor notes the hypocrisy of the sudden flurry to “protect” Aboriginal women from alleged abuse from Japanese pearlers given there had been “decades of unheeded reports of violence toward Aboriginal women by white pearling masters.” Whereas any accusations made against white men had long been dismissed through the rhetoric of “black velvet” that regarded Aboriginal women as incapable of virtue and chastity, "

― Ruby Hamad , White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color