How is it that I, a middle-aged woman with career success living a life far more secure than that of many, can be feeling so reduced to nothingness by some of the discourse in the Voice debate, asks Miriam Corowa.
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    It was one of the places visited on Charles Perkins’ Freedom Ride of 1965, just two years before the referendum that would give the Commonwealth power to legislate on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and have our population counted in official statistics.

    As we peer ahead to whatever October 14 will end up being, it stirs up deep-seated painful emotions caused by a hidden war that is waged on the inside daily: racism.

    Last week, the ABC reported that peak bodies for Indigenous mental health were calling on politicians to engage in more respectful discussions around the referendum and that members of the federal Coalition had declined to meet with representatives.

    That early compulsion to prove myself worthy was compounded by messages about tackling stereotypes that Aboriginal people are inherently dirty, lazy, and dumb.

    Fighting an invisible force that pushed me to work ever harder but equally diminished every achievement because of that feeling that there was something inherently flawed in my very being.

    My colleague Stan Grant, the formidable Professor Marcia Langton, and of course, the great Adam Goodes, just to name a few whose stories we’ve heard.

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  • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Australian culture is one founded on racism. What disgusts me is while the yes campaign is trying to do something about it, the no campaign is fighting for the status quo and then arguing that they aren’t racist.

    The cognitive dissonance of the no side astounds me; there were actual Nazis marching towards Vic Parliament yesterday, and they were waving no flags. Is that really the kind of person no voters wish to stand with?

    I feel though for us yes voters it is our duty to push back against this shit. To actually push back against Murdoch and his bullshit. To talk to family members, and cut them off if they keep doing this shit.

    Ultimately, everyone is capable of racism. The problem is the refusal of no voters to truly consider how they are racist, and then to improve.