ANALYSIS: Why would a teenager vilify an Indigenous footballer? The answer lies in Australia's past and present
This is not who we are. Yes, easy to say. But look closer. It is who you are. How can it not be?
This country was founded on a racist idea that we were barely human. Our land was stolen. Our people were killed., a heinous clause that can allow for people to be denied the right to vote on the basis of race. It is considered inoperative today — called a dead letter clause — because the Racial Discrimination Act prohibits it.Section 51:26 says the parliament can make laws for the people of any race.And the Racial Discrimination Act can be set aside to make those laws as the Howard government did in theI do not belong to a "race". I belong to a people: Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi, Dharrawal people — members of the human race.This is not who we are. We like to say that. But it is who we are.
Why am I writing at all? I am writing this for my people. To offer what I can to how we might survive. How we might endure.
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