Let me apologise in advance. It was tacky, and it shouldn’t have been distributed. I said as much sotto voce at the time when I saw the disgusting references to Abbott’s big ears and his budgie smugglers.
But of course I knew it wasn’t distributed. Well, I now know it wasn’t distributed. I was there. And I wasn’t.
Whatever happened to ‘Ebony and Ivory’? It’s never existed that’s what.
As a privileged, white middle-class woman with a right-of-centre point of view, I’m increasingly bewildered and frustrated by the contention that my entitlement disqualifies me from discussing certain topics.
The WTF? reaction of many Australians to the racist attacks on Adam Goodes – ape, King Kong – is but one further example of the systemic racism in our society that Harry O’Brien identified in a recent post, republished here.
Harry O’Brien’s response to Collingwood club president and his boss Eddie McGuire saying that Adam Goodes could be used to promote the musical King Kong
It doesn’t matter if you are a school teacher, a doctor or even the president of my football club. I will not tolerate racism, nor should we as a society.
It is a common theme – it is all the fault of the enemy within. The worsening economy, increasing unemployment, the decline of standards, crime, murder, terrorist attacks – blame them all on the other, the different within society.
Until recent times that enemy, at least in many countries in ‘civilised’ and capitalist Europe, was Jews.
A proud and defiant Nicky Winmar twenty years ago
Racists and right wingers are trying to use yesterday’s horrific killing in south London to divide working people and whip up hatred of Muslims writes Charlie Kimber in Socialist Worker.
It is crucial that we stop them. We must not allow this to be exploited to generate racism or to give a boost to the far right.
