Category: Racism

I mourn the loss of Australia’s Indigenous voice vote – and won’t forgive the media’s mendacity | Thomas Keneally | The Guardian

Yes supporters react to the result of the Indigenous voice to parliament vote, Sydney, Australia, 14 October. Badiucao

While the pain was being felt by 40% plus Australians and 80% of FN Peoples on and after 15/10/23, Peter Dutton and his cronies were partying as if there was no tomorrow but only the past. A 1830s event thrown by squatters. After they’d just mass murdered FNP and misappropriated their lands  beyond the arbitrary City limit line. Back then they were free to declare they shot and killed “nobody” and able to keep these killings from any possible charges brought by the Crown. As “no” witnesses were ever available. The “black fauna” weren’t  permitted to give evidence or bear witness in any British Christian Courtroom. Courts where even the Magistrates were squatters and jurors military personal. No white man was ever held to account for killing raping or stealing from a black man woman or child for almost 100 years.

The polls had been favourable until a brutal press campaign kicked in against this kindly, long-overdue change

Source: I mourn the loss of Australia’s Indigenous voice vote – and won’t forgive the media’s mendacity | Thomas Keneally | The Guardian

A resounding vote for division – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Germany admits they were Nazis, Racists, and white supremacists daily. They teach it as fact in schools and remind children of that unfortunate criminal history. The Dutch hid their history for over 40 years until they were caught out by Israel that they had deported 84% of their Jews to labor camps and only 16% survived. . The LNP insists we hide our less-than-glorious racist past and emphasize it with a Glorious white one. How do you decide the direction of a Nation without truthfully acknowledging its history? On 14/10/23 we said we preferred to lie and proved to the world we are Racists.

What possible reason could any well-intended citizen have for voting against a simple constitutional adjustment aimed at improving the lives of so many First Nations people? Are so many of my countrymen really wearing their racism so blatantly on their sleeves?

Source: A resounding vote for division – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Unearthing racism’s Christian roots: How far-right Christianity quietly fueled Jacksonville shooter | Salon.com

A United States and Christian flag are sandwiched together (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Christians and Jews both turn to the Bible for their inalienable and God-given right Right to do whatever they wish to “nonbelievers” and in particular Black people. Simply ask Ethiopian and Sephardic Jews together with converted Christian First Nation peoples and ask how they’re treated. Even when they’re far stricter and more devout practitioners of their religions.

This distorted Christianity is at the core of our nation’s deep history of racism. Starting from the very beginning of European settlement, colonists used the Bible to claim Christian explorers had a divine right to seize lands that were not inhabited by Christians. They also argued that they had a godly duty to bring the Bible to native lands. These “Biblical” missions left fields of blood and fire behind them.

Then, as colonists took over the South, Christianity became a lynchpin of slavery. Faith leaders and policymakers professed that the Bible contained passages that clearly supported enslavement. For example, they claimed that Noah’s curse on Ham in Genesis 9:20-27 justified the subjugation of Black people. In some areas, slaveholders also distributed tainted Bibles that removed mentions of freedom and equality.

Source: Unearthing racism’s Christian roots: How far-right Christianity quietly fueled Jacksonville shooter | Salon.com

National Times – Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’… | Facebook

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'ACTIONE AC ON 0 Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action conference on 15 July in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images'

Racists are individuals who intentionally support racially systemic social structures like those seen in Florida. Tucker Carlson certainly promotes them and is a proud signed-up ticket carrying racist. Those that unwittingly support racism and are unaware of it are simply ignorant. While leaders like DeSantis who aspire the Presidency, and as Governor ban books, and education programs that reveal institutional racism in and effort to bury its stench are simply normalised KKK leaders in a dying Democracy.

Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’ but if he was he would ‘just say so’

Source: National Times – Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’… | Facebook

No pride in prejudice

In order to progress as a peaceful and compassionate society, we must break free from the shackles of centuries of racism and bigotry, writes Frances Letters.

Source: No pride in prejudice

Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now | Salon.com

US Senator Tommy Tuberville speaks on the 1st day of CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) Washington, DC conference at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Racism is trying to disguise itself in Australia…Just watch and listen to what Dutton says. “things are just fine as they are. “We all want to close the gap” “Listen to Mundine and Price indigenous Australia is not united” Australia needs to change and accept it’s not what we are a multicultural nation. Dutton has said we are except for Muslims, Middle Easterners, Africans, Asylum Seekers, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders. He has simply imported American Racism along with MAGA politics to Australia. Simply watch and listen and you will hear Murdoch’s voice.

In the 1970s and 1980s, overt white supremacists and their organizations were largely marginalized in American society. As a way of staying relevant and expanding their influence, the leaders of the white right decided to repackage themselves and the movement to become more “respectable,” which meant putting on suits and ties and modifying their message of hate and its presentation. Central to this campaign involved changing themselves from white supremacists, operating under various labels such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, into “white nationalists,” a term that would eventually evolve to include the “alt-right,” identitarians, so-called race realists, ethnonationalists, Western chauvinists and more. In reality, the supposed differences between “white supremacy” and “white nationalism” are largely pedantic, if not simply double talk, obfuscation and evasion.

So to be clear, white supremacists believe that “white people” are a “superior race” and that black and brown people, Jews, Muslims and other nonwhites are inferior be it because of biology or “culture.” White nationalism is the political project through which the goal of white dominance and total control over society is

Source: Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now | Salon.com

The French “Nahel” Riots spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

Since June 27, every news channel has been covering the recent protests in Paris. On the surface, these disturbances are the result of a police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk who was attempting to flee the police at a traffic stop. However, many news outlets neglect to note that this is neither an isolated incident nor a simple case of poor policing. These riots and similar instances in France demonstrate the country’s deep-seated institutional racism.

Source: The French “Nahel” Riots spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

Opinion | The Andrew Johnson/Bull Connor Supreme Court: The Colorblind Society That Isn’t | Common Dreams

Justices of the US Supreme Court

Australia believes it’s Colorblind but the facts prove otherwise.

Those defenders of slavery and segregation would be thrilled with the efforts of Roberts and his cabal to rewrite the history of the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws” clause of the Reconstruction era that is the core of American democracy. And their frontal assault on the goal of a multi-racial society premised on diversity, equity, and inclusion that is so feared by the ghosts of the plantation class ideologues and their descendants longing for a return to those days past.

Source: Opinion | The Andrew Johnson/Bull Connor Supreme Court: The Colorblind Society That Isn’t | Common Dreams

Grant’s daughter tells of fight against racist ‘filth’ – Michael West

The daughter of Stan Grant says he’s struggling after racist “filth” and relentless trolling led the Q+A host to step away from his role at the ABC.

Source: Grant’s daughter tells of fight against racist ‘filth’ – Michael West

Uncovering the plans of Australian White supremacists: FLASHBACK 2021

Our mainstream media puts wind in the sails of hate

In this article from 2021, Tom Tanuki outlined how the mainstream media gave racial extremists such as Tom Sewell a platform to spread his message of hatred to potential recruits.

Source: Uncovering the plans of Australian White supremacists: FLASHBACK 2021

So Now It’s Wrong To Be Racist, Eh? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Just a few short years ago, Attorney-General George Brandis assured us that people had a right to be bigots.

Source: So Now It’s Wrong To Be Racist, Eh? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Victoria Police apologises for falsely accusing Melbourne doctor of stealing alcohol from Dan Murphy’s

Prasannan Ponganamparambile with his wife Nisha and daughter Mejhna.

But the doctor’s lawyer, Stewart O’Connell, has questioned whether the incident would have happened if his client wasn’t a man of obvious Indian descent.

“This is a man who is an absolute pillar of the community, and yet he was treated with appalling disrespect,” O’Connell said.

Ponganamparambile said he couldn’t understand why police didn’t investigate further before posting his photo online.

He could have been contacted using his car’s license plate, which was clear on CCTV.

“There is a much easier way rather than inflicting this much trauma to me. This should be a last resort.”

Source: Victoria Police apologises for falsely accusing Melbourne doctor of stealing alcohol from Dan Murphy’s

Top 8 Ways to tell if you’re a White Supremacist who believes in the Great Replacement

In the wake of the Buffalo mass murder of 10 African-Americans by a privileged, hateful white teen hopped up on “replacement theory,” the purveyors of that moronic conspiracy theory have been on the defensive. The number 3 Republican in the House, Elise Stefanik, had her flack come out to deny that she is a white supremacist even though she had been retailing the “great replacement.” Tucker Carlson opined as how he was the real victim of the Buffalo murders.

Source: Top 8 Ways to tell if you’re a White Supremacist who believes in the Great Replacement

10 People Killed in “Racially Motivated” Buffalo Shooting – Mother Jones

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In Australia, we have Institutionalised racially motivated death principally in our police stations, jail and health systems having killed over 500 Indigenous Australians in and asylum seekers in custody all one by one.

According to police, the suspect—an 18-year-old white male—drove from “hours away” to carry out the attack, which he livestreamed on the internet. Police said the suspect was heavily armed and was wearing tactical gear. The shooter was taken into custody and was expected to be arraigned as early as Saturday evening.

Source: 10 People Killed in “Racially Motivated” Buffalo Shooting – Mother Jones

Sickness of racism still alive in Western culture

Morrison declaring Ukranians refugees to be first in line in his Australia. Appealing to the racists in this country is nothing new when appealing for votes.

The problem of racism has roots throughout history and is sadly still alive in Western culture and politics, writes Bilal Cleland.

Source: Sickness of racism still alive in Western culture

From “Crack Pipes” To “Critical Race Theory”: GOP’s 2022 Midterm Strategy Is Overt Racism | The Smirking Chimp

American Racism isn’t just political posturing it’s real, it’s systemic, and it’s here to stay as far as the Republicans are concerned!!

There are still eight months to go before the election — so this is probably going to get much worse. Republican leaders are desperate to change the subject away from the January 6 insurrection and the Big Lie, but Trump and his base are obsessed. Racist hysterics about “crack pipes” serve as a distraction. But this blunt racism is also about justifying Trump’s coup and ongoing efforts to steal the next election. The constant drumbeat of reminders that white supremacy is under very real threat from a multiracial democracy helps keep the GOP focused on why it is, exactly, they are organizing behind what has turned into an anti-democracy movement. Time to invest in anti-nausea meds, because Republicans are committed to this tactic of overt racism, clearly convinced it’s the key to winning the midterm elections.

Source: From “Crack Pipes” To “Critical Race Theory”: GOP’s 2022 Midterm Strategy Is Overt Racism | The Smirking Chimp

Two Aboriginal women suing Queensland Rail for racial discrimination – ABC News

Angela smiling in a photograph with her three kids.

The virus Australia has lived with for 200 plus years has never been cured of or even really addressed.

Two women were forcibly removed from the Spirit of Queensland train in January They allege it was discrimination because a non-Aboriginal passenger was allowed to remain on the train Queensland Rail provided compensation and a private apology, but the complainants want greater accountability

Source: Two Aboriginal women suing Queensland Rail for racial discrimination – ABC News

Europe’s Romani Population Can’t Breathe

Last month, a Czech police officer kneeled on the neck of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš until he stopped breathing. Fifty years since the first World Romani Congress, Europe’s Romani people urgently need a new movement against discrimination and deprivation.

Source: Europe’s Romani Population Can’t Breathe

The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year – Mother Jones

Coming to you Australia via the LNP, Minister Alan Tudge, and News Corp the “don’t hurt my white feelings”  Bill. An original carbon copy of America’s Republican push because the LNP simply has no original, even racist ideas of their own.

“I’m not trying to tell them how to live their lives or what their political ideology should be,” he says. “I just want them to be critical thinkers.” These days, he sometimes thinks of this quote by the American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: “Honest history is the weapon of freedom.”

Source: The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year – Mother Jones

Republican-controlled State Governments Are in the Early Stages of Forming Their Own Thought Police | The Smirking Chimp

That’s the conclusion we must draw from Republican state laws written to “ban” critical race theory from classrooms and schools but written so vaguely as to cover virtually anything related to race, racism, whiteness, white supremacy, the history of slavery or even unkind interpretations of American history. In a very real sense, we are just a few small steps from “banning” ideas to burning books. It’s not enough to just explain what critical race theory is, because while we’re doing all this explaining, the republic’s enemies are in the early stages of forming state and local thought police.

Source: Republican-controlled State Governments Are in the Early Stages of Forming Their Own Thought Police | The Smirking Chimp

Opinion | Politically Correct Racism | Robert C. Koehler

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Legislation “purporting to outlaw” the teaching of critical race theory has passed in Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Source: Opinion | Politically Correct Racism | Robert C. Koehler

Critical Race Theory Panic Is Everywhere—Just in Time for Juneteenth – Mother Jones

The latest “woke” boogeyman riling up conservatives is critical race theory, a scholarly framework that seeks to understand the role race and racism have played in all aspects of society. Of course, ask a Fox News host, and he’ll tell you with a straight face that CRT is a Marxist ideology that teaches white children that they’re inherently inferior—and if that’s not enough, they should feel bad about their skin color. According to extensive research by Media Matters for America, Fox News has mentioned critical race theory more than 1,300 times in the last three-and-a-half months alone.

Source: Critical Race Theory Panic Is Everywhere—Just in Time for Juneteenth – Mother Jones

Critical Rage Theory | The Smirking Chimp

So here’s the great irony: we’ve gone from a theory that considers racism inseparable from laws and institutions in American life to the actual enactment of rules and laws that forbid the teaching or consideration of racism as inseparable from American life. Put another way: if there ever was proof beyond a reasonable doubt that critical race theory is reality–that American institutions such as our legislatures and courts are sick to the core with racism–Trumpist Republicans are providing us that proof in spades. They are elevating critical race theory from theory to fact, and from controversy to necessity.

Source: Critical Rage Theory | The Smirking Chimp

Science has made the idea of ‘race’ non-existent

It may well be the case but in “reality” it still exists and need to be called out and eradicated

The idea of “race” still matters in sociology only because racist oppression still exists. But, since the mapping of the human genome, biologically, the term is irrelevant, writes Dr A L Jones.

Source: Science has made the idea of ‘race’ non-existent

Georgia Board of Education Votes to Censor American History

An enslaved family picking cotton outside Savannah, Ga., in the 1850s. Photograph by Pierre Havens.

The state board drafted a resolution restricting classroom discussion of racism, then blocked comments from the YouTube livestream.

Source: Georgia Board of Education Votes to Censor American History

“Exterminate All the Brutes” Was 500 Years of Genocide in the Making

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That is 100 percent true. Before this moment in history, it would have been impossible to imagine that one of the world’s largest corporations — AT&T, owner of HBO, with a current market cap of $220 billion — would have funded and broadcast a film like this. The fact that it somehow squeezed through the cracks and onto our TVs and laptop screens demonstrates that something profound about the world is changing. Decades, centuries of people fighting and dying were required both to widen the cracks and mold someone like Peck, the right human at the right time, to step through. “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a sprawling disquisition — four episodes, each an hour long — into the invention and consequences of 500 years of “white” supremacy, presented via a high-gloss pastiche of old footage, newly filmed dramatizations, and clips from Hollywood movies. “White” needs scare quotes because the film makes clear that whiteness is not something that exists in reality — like, say, the moon — that is right there whether we believe in it or not. Instead, it’s something imaginary that we’ve somehow all agreed on, like pieces of paper having value.

Source: “Exterminate All the Brutes” Was 500 Years of Genocide in the Making

Systemic ‘bogan’ racism is on the decline in Australia

Global White supremacist attitudes are on the decline, including those of Australia’s bogan racists, writes Bilal Cleland. IN THE USA, we see White supremacists arming themselves, applauding the police killings of blacks, invading state and national legislatures and threatening prominent White politicians who resist them. Here in relatively COVID-19-free Australia, we suffer more from moronic bogan supremacists than armed insurgents. That there are terrorists amongst us is certain, as we saw from the Christchurch massacre, perpetrated by an Australian export. That we have wannabe fascist militias was indicated by the recent neo-Nazi weekend camp in the Grampians, although we are told that ‘they broke no laws’.

Systemic ‘bogan’ racism is on the decline in Australia

A white farmer’s murder was deemed a racial issue. Then police arrested his widow

Wine farmer Stefan Smit drinks with friends at his Louiesenhof Wines farm which is next to the Kayamandi township outside Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2018.

So when Smit was killed in June 2019, some people saw the case as evidence of targeted attacks against white farmers, a rallying point among white minority rights groups and their allies in the US who claim that white farmers are killed at higher rates than other South Africans. That narrative has been upended in this case, after the arrest of three people on murder charges, including Zurenah Smit, 54, Smit’s second wife. Advertisement

A white farmer’s murder was deemed a racial issue. Then police arrested his widow

Racism, neo-colonialism and ‘whitewashing’

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Old Dog Thoughts – BLM and what it means in Australia Video Must Watch

Stan Grant

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2020/video/NC2003H023S00

Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

During the course of his sermon, King quoted this sentence from the statement of a group that called itself the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam: “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Regarding race, it appears that the great majority of Americans have now rejected such silence. This is good. It remains an open question, however, when their silent acceptance of militarism, materialism, and the abuse of Planet Earth will end.

via Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways – Vox

A Black Lives Matter march in Washington, DC.

via Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways – Vox

Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism | Alana Lentin | Opinion | The Guardian

Ambulance arrivals at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC

via Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism | Alana Lentin | Opinion | The Guardian

Go Back To Your Country, They Said | HuffPost

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It’s black and white: racism in Australia is common and accepted | Marni Tuala for IndigenousX | Opinion | The Guardian

Marni Tuala for IndigenousX

via It’s black and white: racism in Australia is common and accepted | Marni Tuala for IndigenousX | Opinion | The Guardian

It’s not racist, it’s politics: the treatment of Chinese students and MP Gladys Liu

Chinese tourists on a tour of Sydney University.

While there is a strong element of truth in individual cases like this, let’s not turn it into something to generalise from either. Australian History is a documented record of Racism against Chinese for colour alone. Patterns of behaviour were culturally accepted and became systemic institutionalised for political reasons back then too, and those adversarial tactics have remained supported throughout generations today. In just the same way our Colonial attitudes did to Indigenous Australia.

Power and white culture reflected what the pecking order was among whites too but for other reasons such as religion or worse atheists primarily because they tended to deny the socially constructed order of things as natural or god-given. Socialists and Communists were a focus of danger, even more so and globally.

However, to say colour wasn’t predominant is to deny the history that landed on our shores and that still predominates and is pulled out so quickly and misused by Politicians for tactical reasons and in the case Scott Morrison PM is being used in a non-applicable but racial way in defense of Gladys Liu. Reverse Racism Black and Sino Racism aren’t Racism It’s the tactical cry of alt-right whites claiming victimhood where none exists. It’s calling Adam Goodes a Racist when he’s not. It’s a strategy of smoke screening systemic and institutional patterns of behaviour so ingrained in our cultural psyche to be regarded as usual and ill-mannered but little more. However, there is no equivalency between black and white racism because black yellow racism isn’t an institutionalised pattern of behaviour in Australia.  (ODT)

It’s not racist, it’s politics: the treatment of Chinese students and MP Gladys Liu

A Black Woman Said She Was Afraid of the Police. A Nearly All-White Disciplinary Panel Said We Don’t Believe You.

via A Black Woman Said She Was Afraid of the Police. A Nearly All-White Disciplinary Panel Said We Don’t Believe You.

Cory Booker Scolds Kamala Harris for Joking About Pot Use

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 04: Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., attend the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in Hart Building on September 4, 2018. The hearing was delayed by motions to adjourn by Democratic senators and protesters. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Apply this to the offences Indigenous Australians are incarcerated for. We are worse than the US (ODT)

“Now we have presidential candidates, senators, bragging about their pot use while there are kids who can’t get a job because they have a nonviolent offense for doing things that two of the last three presidents did,” he added.

While he declined to name them, both Harris and Sanders recently attracted attention for joking about their past use of the drug during interviews with “The Breakfast Club,” a nationally syndicated radio show.

the gross disparity in the way that rich and poor users are currently treated by the criminal justice system makes it no laughing matter. “The privileged can break laws and not have to worry about it. There’s no difference between blacks and whites for using marijuana, or even selling marijuana, but blacks are almost four times more likely to be convicted,” Booker said.

via Cory Booker Scolds Kamala Harris for Joking About Pot Use

Australia is deplorably racist, as people of colour are reminded when they speak up | Jack Latimore | Opinion | The Guardian

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There can be no reconciliation until politicians acknowledge the harmful impacts of race baiting

via Australia is deplorably racist, as people of colour are reminded when they speak up | Jack Latimore | Opinion | The Guardian

Redefining Your Limited View of Racism and White Supremacy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Simply put Australian Conservatives are Racing to be American and we aren’t far behind this Failed Democracy (ODT)

As we look at the news coming out of America (or the tweets from the President) we are aggrieved that the country is more than ever gripped in the claws of racism, and even worse, that of a white supremacist society. Chicago-based activist Karla Thomas tells us of a country that is “erroneously predicated on white as ‘good’ and black as ‘bad’.”

There is no denying that America is strung collectively tight. Marginalised people have had an extra-large orange boot stepping on their backs, and they are rightfully angry. Immigrants, African Americans, people with disabilities, women, Muslims, and Indigenous people speak out in frustration and the Right, wavering centre and the oh-so-woke but not really Left, are all muting, ignoring, or tone policing their anger respectively. We are at war. And in the centre of this cauldron, there are some very triggered white folks who are tired of people insinuating that their actions have anything what so ever to do with racism.

via Redefining Your Limited View of Racism and White Supremacy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It was getting ugly: the Native American who faced down his tormentors

Catholic Americans show what they are made of (ODT)

In them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum at the end of an Indigenous Peoples March on Friday while singing a song of unity for indigenous people to “be strong” in the face of the ravages of colonialism that now include police brutality, poor access to health care and the ill effects of climate change on reservations.

Surrounding him is a throng of young, mostly white teenage boys, several wearing Make America Great Again caps, with one standing about 30 centimetres from the drummer’s face also wearing a relentless smirk.
Native American Indian elder Nathan Phillips is taunted by Covington Catholic High School students wearing Make America Great Again caps near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Native American Indian elder Nathan Phillips is taunted by Covington Catholic High School students wearing Make America Great Again caps near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Credit:Twitter

Nathan Phillips, a veteran in the indigenous rights movement, was that man in the middle.
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Phillips, 64, said on Saturday he felt threatened by the teens and that they suddenly swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.

Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song of unity that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.

via It was getting ugly: the Native American who faced down his tormentors

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | Robin diAngelo | Opinion | The Guardian

‘Suggesting that whiteness has no meaning creates an alienating – even hostile – climate for people of color working and living in predominantly white environments.’

While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives

I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are critical because, by virtually every measure, racial inequality persists, and institutions continue to be overwhelmingly controlled by white people. While most of us see ourselves as “not racist”, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.

via White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | Robin diAngelo | Opinion | The Guardian

Racists Think Trump Is A Racist | Crooks and Liars

Racists Think Trump Is A Racist | Crooks and Liars

The Serena cartoon debate: calling out racism is not ‘censorship’ | Gary Younge | Opinion | The Guardian

Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

The depiction of the tennis star in an Australian newspaper recycled centuries-old racial stereotypes. Publishing it showed an extraordinary lack of judgment

via The Serena cartoon debate: calling out racism is not ‘censorship’ | Gary Younge | Opinion | The Guardian

Total and utter racist bullshit | Overland literary journal

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So it was all bullshit. Total and utter bullshit.

New official statistics confirm that the alleged Victorian crime wave – an outbreak of criminality supposedly so intense that, at one stage, Liberal MP Craig Kelly wanted road signs on the border warning travellers from New South Wales about the danger they faced – never existed.

On the contrary, Victoria’s safer than at any time in the past ten years, in line with a general decline in crime across the nation. As Fairfax’s Peter Martin notes, ‘at 1392 offenders per 100,000 people over the age of 10, Victoria’s offence rate was Australia’s second lowest, bettered only by the Australian Capital Territory.’

Crime in Victoria is not increasing. Rather, the new figures mark the fourth successive annual fall. That’s right. Contrary to just about everything you’ve read or seen on TV, crime in Victoria’s been declining for years.

via Total and utter racist bullshit | Overland literary journal

Media silence: NT Govt caught stealing $2 billion from Indigenous budget | Welcome To Country

nt poverty government under spending 2 billion dollars aboriginal indigenous budget

via Media silence: NT Govt caught stealing $2 billion from Indigenous budget | Welcome To Country

Adam Bloom (AKA #PoolPatrolPete) Loses His Job | Crooks and Liars

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