A group of black women were escorted off of a train taking them on a wine tour
after a white woman complained they were laughing loudly. After the
women, who are all members of a book club, exited the train they were
met by a group of police officers.
Every single Australian person who is outraged at the police (and entire societal) brutality against black people in the US that’s currently in the headlines needs to put the same amount of energy into learning about the VERY SAME brutality that’s used here in Australia to oppress Indigenous Australians.
Every single Australian, whether in Australia or overseas, born in Australia or born overseas, needs to put the onus on themselves to EDUCATE, INFORM and TALK ABOUT the institutional violence black Australians face.
White Australia has:
Warning. These links may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased.
Refused Indigenous people treatment from the Royal Flying Doctor Service in preference of less in need white people (‘Ray Martin: The Great Divide’, SBS)
minimised and attempted to erase the historical importance of Aboriginal Australians, including that Indigenous Australians may be the earliest humans on the planet
Be outraged at Ferguson. Be outraged about Tamir Rice. Be outraged at ALL the black deaths due to police brutality and institutionalised racism in the USA.
But ALSO be OUTRAGED at the same treatment shown to Indigenous Australians here in this country.
Over the weekend, democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley responded to Black Lives Matter protestors with a familiar phrase “Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter.“ His intentions were good, but horribly misguided. What makes #AllLivesMatter so problematic? One Reddit user broke it down with a perfect analogy
All taylorswift did today was let her white privilege and white feminism show to the masses. Systematic oppression of black people, especially black women, is why Nicki will never be a cultural phenomenon in pop culture like Miley or Taylor because they are starting from two different levels. Nicki is starting 17 steps behind Miley (who has an industry parent), and 17 steps behind Taylor – who is America’s sweetheart just by being white and traditionally pretty – because she is a black woman.
Therefore, when Nicki does something in the industry, especially in the hip hop industry, she has to work twice as long, and twice as hard, to get half of what white artists are literally handed without trying. And even then, her allocades come with the * of “black artist”, and not just “artist”. So not only does Nicki have to survive in the entertainment as a woman, which is hard enough, she has to survive in this industry as a black woman. Black women are the literal bottom of the barrel in society due to the systematic oppression of gender and race.
So when Nicki is upset that her video, which broke records, and became a hit by media standards, doesn’t receive a nomination, as trivial as the VMAs may happen to be, she has every right as a hard working black woman to be upset that white women, doing the same thing, are getting recognition for their work.
More often than not, those women, are copying/imitating things black women have been CONDEMMED for in the past. For instance: Miley twerks and it’s a new cultural phenomenon. A black woman has been twerking since God created Earth and being told that what we are doing is degrading/too sexual/too exotic/too black/too anything but right.
Just like black women have bigger butts, lips, or finding new ways to do our hair (cornrows/weaves etc), we get stomped on for these features or techniques that get deemed ugly or ghetto, but the minute a white woman begins to do it, it’s “edgy” and new.
So what I’m not going to stand by and let happen is more white people sit around and say, “Nicki didn’t deserve an award anyway bc a, b, c….” When Nicki likely WOULDN’T be nominated at all because those in power (usually white people), find any black person in a position of power/creativity/uniqueness , as a threat to the way they see the power balance of the world, and will consciously or unconsciously condemn the black person for that, and refuse to give praise or awards or whatever when it’s due.
Additionally, Taylor telling Nicki to come on stage with her if she wins is her shrugging off this systematic racism that benefits HER, and maintaining her position of power as a white person, and instead showing pity toward an oppressed person. It’s truly embarrassing.
Black People: *make fun hash tags on Twitter used to uplift community, show out unity, and literally doesn’t have to do with anyone else besides BLACK PEOPLE*
Non Black People: “MMKAY kinda racist hoe you guys didn’t include anyone else.” *copies our exact hashtag and replaces the adjective*
Black People: anyway… *creates another original hashtag*
Non Black People: *repeats same actions as before*
Black People: *stares into the camera like their in the Office*
white queers and white leftists look at black people w a paternalistic and parental attitude like they feel like we’re too primitive or politically underdeveloped to be “radicals” and whatnot and that’s why iont rep them and their spaces even tho i can and do wipe the floor w them and am juss as adept at reading engels and butler and all the rest of the geeks they think we too incompetent to understand !
I feel this about even non-black people of color who run in the same circles
“I told her ‘because God gave you that skin colour, because you’re a proud blackfella like mum’.”
Since speaking to the media, Samara and Rachel have received hundreds of messages of support online. Samara has been invited to perform in the Disney on Ice Dare to Dream show and indigenous rapper Adam Briggs has invited her to star in his new music video — she will play a young Cathy Freeman.
“We are very overwhelmed and shocked by the kindness of people. I didn’t think people would care so much,” Ms Muir told The Courier.
“I can’t express how much it has meant to us. I just thought it would be a story people would click past and forget. To know that she has touched so many people … that they see her how I see her, is just incredible.”
Ms Muir said she reads all the messages to her daughter.
“After every message Samara smiles and says ‘thankyou your majesty’,” Ms Muir said.
“She is back to her proud, beautiful Aboriginal self.”
Yes baby, do it to it with your beautiful indigenous self. We all love you.
“he looks light skinned black” my nigga shut the fuck up that hair cut itself screams white serial killer get the fuck outta here “light skinned black” smfh y’all white people crazy
This nigga said light skinned black….. BITCH WHERE 😐
That Rachel woman got her people thinking that’s what the average light skin Black person looks like. GTFOH.
Nah you can’t just pass him off as one of us we don’t kill people at church we won’t even curse near a church they can keep him and Rachel!
this just made me uncomfortable is she serious??!!!! @WHITE PEOPLE YA’LL GONE CLAIM YA’LL DEMON SPAWN.
