There can be no reconciliation until politicians acknowledge the harmful impacts of race baiting
There’s no question that Australia is a far more racist country than its political class like to admit. No amount of spin should be capable of disorientating hard facts sufficiently to obfuscate that reality. Yet – incredibly – I still receive abusive “mail” ridiculing me for jumping at shadows, protesting it just ain’t so.
I understand how a certain amount of privilege in life provides a buffer to the kinds of racialised discrimination, prejudice and hate speech that daily infects the lives of people of colour in Australia. But surely by now, in the heavily media saturated environment we inhabit, claiming colour-blindness, whether in an Australian context or global society, isn’t possible. Yet, such selective awareness persists.
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