Please no @JessRowe. This gesture and your light-hearted comment about having had better days makes it very clear how little you understand the impact your actions have had on me and so many others. Racism and discrimination causes trauma, it kills, we can’t just 🤷🏻♀️ it off…
…the hurt caused by racism, the way it infects so much of your life if you’ve experienced it, and the role it plays in silencing and excluding people is real. It’s not just a bad day to be shrugged off, it’s a constant that some of us can’t escape #RacismStopsWithMe
And no Chris U, this ain’t a violent attack - it is a series of tweets setting out the real violence in this story: racism
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1) Is any analysis being done about those who are breaching orders to see if other measures would have prevented these breaches? (extra financial support, clearer communication due to language issues, etc?)
2) What’s being done to address overcrowding in communities as a result of housing affordability crisis - given most spread is in larger family grouping living in same home?
3) What’s the data on covid cases versus breaches? Is it the people who are breaching the orders causing the infections or are infections happening even though people are following the orders?
All those living in Australia horrified by police murdering black people in the US - be horrified but also be horrified about the fact that more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres straight islander people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission in to deaths in custody...
The @GuardianAus and @Jumbunna_Inst have a confronting, heart breaking, rage-making and powerful database listing deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people in this country theguardian.com/australia-news…
So yes. Say the name of #GeorgeFloyd but also say the names of Nathan Reynolds, Patrick Fisher, Rebecca Maher, David Dungay, Mark Edward Mason... just some of those from NSW on this unacceptable list of aboriginal and torres strait islander deaths in custody...