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@blakandblack
May 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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I’m putting together a video diary of my experiences as a #Whistleblower and #FirstNations person. Over the weeks I intend to discuss the racism I’ve personally experienced in Australia and the corruption I’ve witnessed from @AusFedPolice @actgovernment and ACT “just-us” system
Good morning everyone it’s #ReconciliationWeek again, and I’m posting the second instalment of my video diary. As I’ve often mentioned before on Twitter I’m a member of the stolen generation(s) and a whistleblower into corruption in the Government Solicitor’s office and Treasury.
It’s the #ReconciliationDay Holiday in the ACT today, and day that drips with hypocrisy. The ACT has the highest per capita rate of #FirstNations incarceration in the country, it’s had the highest growth in FN incarnation in the country. The ACT has structural racism issues …
Another short video diary entry about being stolen generation and living in a no man’s land of non-belonging. My reality and the reality of a lot of other people like me is: I’m too white to be black, and too black to be white. Australia is not an overly tolerant society …
Another stanza on my life as a Stolen Gen living in a racist and corrupt society. Whilst I’m prepared to accept that lady justice is blind, the institutions tasked with taking as before lady justice are not colour blind, this creates a system of “just-us” favouring the powerful…

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Nov 15, 2022
The problem with ‘systemic,’ ‘structural’ and ‘institutional’ racism

Notice how those terms don’t really work? They challenge our mental processing, in part because systems can’t be bigots and institutions can’t be prejudiced.
How about revising our terms for “systemic racism,” “structural racism” and “institutional racism”?

The problem with these phrases is that systems, structures and institutions cannot be racist any more than they can be happy or sad.
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Yes, of course, we use these terms in a more abstract way:
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Canberra is Australia’s Alabama:

Zachary Rolfe the scion of a prominent Canberra family, is the cop who shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker. He was involved in an earlier arrest of another Indigenous youth that was allegedly violent and humiliating. He’s faced no accountability!
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See hearing below. Anti-Indigenous racism remains strong in the ACT

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