#racismendsnow

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An amazing quote from Audre Lorde, an American writer who dedicated her work to confront and address injustices of racism, sexism, classism and homophobia. . . . .

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Yesterday, I participated in the peaceful protest organized by @jubediyah & @themarchforchange for the racial injustice against BLACK LIVES. It was an incredible experience to march with the beautiful black community of Toronto, and alongside my friends. I’d like to thank @jubediyah for his outstanding leadership in this movement; thank you for steering Toronto in a positive direction, and doing so with such peace and grace. Toronto has spoken, now the country must listen & understand our cry for justice. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻#BlackLivesMatter #MarchForChange #RacismLivesHereToo #RacismEndsNow #Toronto (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGprmfJFNT/?igshid=k55rwjrnphjk

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Fish speak to the sea

waves speak to the shores

we float on our vessel

we saw death with our eyes

we avenged our hunger

we struggled because our paths changed

our visions blurred making us yearn

everything i touched became a lesson

we came here in search of life

the path we came on was dangerous

we were anxious of whether we faced life or death

we are still rotting behind barbed wire fences

the life we hoped for is now hopeless

the government did not care what came of us

my people (Tamils) looked at us as entertainment

we are living like dogs

5 years have passed

we are living in fear like animals who have 5 senses

inside 5 layers of electric fence

the beginning itself was fearful

the deep sea welcomed us

we passed danger

we live without support

the soul cannot live without a body

the body cannot grow without a soul

i cannot describe how we are living.

Written by S.

Image: Hannah Patchett

கடலோடு மீன்கள் சேர கரையோடு அலைகள் சேர கட்டு மரத்தில் நாம் மிதக்க கண் எதிரே சாவைப்பார்த்து பசிவந்து பளி வாங்க பாதை மாறி தத்தளிக்க பார்வை மங்கி பதைச்சுப் போக பட்டதெல்லாம் அனுபவம் ஆக வாழ்வை தேடி வலம் வர வரும் வழியே ஆபத்தாக வாழ்வா சாவா என்ற ஏக்கத்தோடு வதைக்க படுகின்றோம் இன்றும் முள் வேலிக்குள் நம்பிய வாழ்க்கை ஏக்கத்தில் போக நமக்கு என்ன என்று அரசு அலட்ச்சியப் படுத்த நம்மவர்கள் வேடிக்கை பாக்க நாய் போன்று நாம் வாழ்கின்றோம் ஐந்து ஆண்டுகள் கழிந்தும் ஐந்து அறிவு மிருகங்களைப்போல் ஐயம் கொண்டு வாழ்கிறோம் ஐந்து அடுக்கு மின்சார முள் வேலிக்குள் ஆரம்பமே கதி கலங்க ஆழ்கடல் நம்மை வரவேற்க ஆபத்துகளையும் தாண்டி வந்தும் ஆதரவு இன்றி வாழ்கின்றோம். உடல் இன்றி உயிர் வாளது உயிர் இன்றி உடல் வளராது நாங்கள் எப்படி வாழ்கின்றோம் என்று சொல்லத் தெரியாது !!! கடலோடு மீன்கள் சேர கரையோடு அலைகள் சேர கட்டு மரத்தில் நாம் மிதக்க கண் எதிரே சாவைப்பார்த்து

பசிவந்து பளி வாங்க பாதை மாறி தத்தளிக்க பார்வை மங்கி பதைச்சுப் போக பட்டதெல்லாம் அனுபவம் ஆக

வாழ்வை தேடி வலம் வர வரும் வழியே ஆபத்தாக வாழ்வா சாவா என்ற ஏக்கத்தோடு வதைக்க படுகின்றோம் இன்றும் முள் வேலிக்குள்

நம்பிய வாழ்க்கை ஏக்கத்தில் போக நமக்கு என்ன என்று அரசு அலட்ச்சியப் படுத்த நம்மவர்கள் வேடிக்கை பாக்க நாய் போன்று நாம் வாழ்கின்றோம்

ஐந்து ஆண்டுகள் கழிந்தும் ஐந்து அறிவு மிருகங்களைப்போல் ஐயம் கொண்டு வாழ்கிறோம் ஐந்து அடுக்கு மின்சார முள் வேலிக்குள்

ஆரம்பமே கதி கலங்க ஆழ்கடல் நம்மை வரவேற்க ஆபத்துகளையும் தாண்டி வந்தும் ஆதரவு இன்றி வாழ்கின்றோம்.

உடல் இன்றி உயிர் வாளது உயிர் இன்றி உடல் வளராது

நாங்கள் எப்படி வாழ்கின்றோம் என்று சொல்லத் தெரியாது !!!

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You can't be neutral when it comes to injustice. We are all in this together! Black Lives Matter! . . . .

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It seems surreal that in 2020 we still see the need to fight against racism. Black Lives Matter! We must fight against the systemic racism that exists in our country today! Together we can fight and make a difference. . . . .

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To be silent is to be complicit. Black Lives Matter! . . . .

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Activist #BreeNewsome fearlessly climbed up the pole to take down the #ConfederateFlag in #SouthCarolina this morning ❤️💪👏 #respect #RacismEndsNow #RacialEquality #BlackLivesMatter #respect

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Activist #BreeNewsome fearlessly climbed up the pole to take down the #ConfederateFlag in #SouthCarolina this morning ❤️💪👏 #respect #RacismEndsNow #RacialEquality #BlackLivesMatter #respect

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BRIANA DOMJEN: Indigenous surfer Otis Carey hurt by Surfing Life magazine’s description of him as having an “apeish face”

[Otis Carey. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook]

INDIGENOUS surfer Otis Carey is said to be devastated by a feature in Surfing Life magazine which said he had an “apeish face”.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/indigenous-surfer-otis-carey-hurt-by-surfing-life-magazines-description-of-him-as-having-an-apeish-face/story-fni0cvc9-1226851864290

The Narabeen surfer, whose mother is of Aboriginal heritage, is also rumoured to be speaking to Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes about the insensitive article.

[Otis Carey in action. Picture: Melvyn Knipe Source: News Limited]

Surfing Life, owned by Morrison Media, ran a story titled ‘Poetry Night with Mermaid Killer’ in their March issue written by Nathan Myers, and wrote, “With his apeish face and cowering hair-curtains, I expect mlittle more than Cro-Magnon grunts from his mouth. I am caught off guard by the clarity and eloquence of his speech.”

His father Chris Carey told Confidential he has read the feature and is currently focusing on the wellbeing of his son.

“At this stage we don’t want to talk about it, our concern is Otis’s wellbeing,” Carey said.

“We just have to support him.”

[Otis Carey. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook]

In a previous interview with the father of one, Carey spoke proudly of his indigenous heritage.

“My Nan is from the Gumbaynggirr people and my Pop was from the Bundjalung people,” he told Focus magazine.

“My Nan was born in the dunes up at Red Rock, so we have very strong connections to the land and ocean up around Coffs.

“It’s always such an energising feeling coming back home for a few days after being away on a surf trip; it definitely keeps me grounded coming home.

[Otis Carey. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook]

“Whether I like it or not, that natural spiritual connection I have with the ocean and the land has been given to me as a gift through my heritage, and it’s something I embrace to the fullest and something I’m very proud of.”

'Confidential' approached 'Surfing Life' magazine however we did not hear back before we published.

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Where are you really from? On understanding casual racism in Australia.

  “Where are you from?” I get asked all the time, so I say “Adelaide”, then they say “But where are you really from?” And I say, “I’m really from Adelaide”.

  They don’t really want to know I’m from Adelaide, what they really want to know is ‘what’s your racial background’.

  They want to know because of the color of my skin. Like hundreds of thousands of my fellow Australians, I’m of mixed race.

  You may think what’s the harm in asking the question. You may ask what’s wrong with wanting to know my racial background. Or why I can’t just tell them what they want?

  Here’s why, and it goes to the heart of something called ‘casual racism’.

People like to put things in ‘boxes’, its why people lie about their age. They know others will make judgments based up on it. We place things into boxes, that’s human nature. It’s a tool we use to make sense of the world.

  Now, when presented with a nationality, for example Chinese, Arab, Indigenous, or Indian what comes to mind? Think on this for a moment.

  In some peoples minds there are little boxes labeled ‘Chinese’, ���Arab’. ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Indian’, that contain prejudices stereotypes, misunderstanding, fear.

  I’m not saying this is always the case, simply that is sometimes the case.

  When I tell people my ethnic back ground, I go into a box, and all the negative things in that little box, the prejudices, they get applied to me.

  They no longer see me for who or what I am. I am not judged on the quality of my character. I am judged by the contents of that little box. I am stereotyped. And the minute I am stereotyped, I am treated differently.

  Asking the “where are you really from” question has been called ‘casual racism’, it’s been called this because often the people that ask this question do not think of themselves as racist. They ask the question casually, without malicious intent. They do not consciously recognize the prejudices inside that little box into which I am about to be placed, they may not even be aware that prejudices are in there.

  They are not aware that the way they judge me will change as soon as they have their answer.

  ‘Casual racists’ do not understand that they are racist. They simply do not know or believe that the attitudes or beliefs they hold are in any way racists.

  So perhaps the term ‘casual racism’ is confusing, perhaps the term should be ‘racist who do not know or believe that they are racists’.

  And this is where it gets even more complex. How do you begin to talk to someone about their racism when they genuinely do not know or understand or believe they are racist?

  It’s complicated further by the fact that a great many Australians do not even recognize that racism exist here.

  It is complex; there is no simple answer. However the answer begins

with a recognition that racism exists. Because if a problem is not recognised, it cannot be solved and in the absence of its recognition it grows in strength.

  We’re not a racist country, but racism exists here. As a nation and as individuals we have the strength to recognise this. A recognition that racism exists in Australia will not weaken us – it will strengthen us, and from this we will grow in stature.

    My name is  Ravi Prasad, and I’m really from Adelaide.

    IMAGE CREDIT:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/racial-microaggressions-photos_n_4441249.html 

Ravi Prasad

Ravi Prasad is currently a partner at Future Arts Media, and a strategist and planner who has worked for advertising agencies including Leo Burnett, Clemenger BBDO, FCB, Ogilvy and Mather, Tribal DDB and John Singleton Advertising.

Ravi is also a former recipient of the Elizabeth Hasting Memorial Award at the UTS Human Rights Awards and co-founder of The Stand, a new initiative to end racism in Australia. 

The Stand on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Stand/554618854626665

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