Australia’s history of racism towards Aboriginals is absolutely disgusting.
Until the mid-60s, indigenous Australians came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an indigenous Australian meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.
To this day, Australia breaks every code of the Geneva Convention when it comes to indigenous Australians and their human rights. The “public housing” that the government has given them are one-bedroom shacks with no running water, no electricity and no gas, that entire families are forced to live in. These shacks are in communities in the outback, as far away from “civilised” society as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.
Indigenous Australians that live in the city are commonly forced to live in very dangerous and derelict areas that the government gives very little funding towards. Redfern in Sydney is a highly indigenous Australian populated suburb that is rife with crime, unemployment and horrendous living conditions. The government does next to nothing to help these people, either.
Whenever riots have broken out as a result of incredibly low morale, the police and the government are very quick to point all the blame at the indigenous Australians and say that they are the cause of their own problems, rather than looking at what the actual cause is.
Unemployment rates amongst indigenous Australians is astronomical. Crime rates are astronomical. Suicide rates are extremely high within the indigenous Australian community. Death from inadequate living conditions and inadequate health care is common. Brutality towards indigenous Australians is common.
The way many indigenous Australians are forced to live is equivalent to that of what one would expect from a third-world country. Indigenous Australians are considered by the UN to be one of the most horrendously marginalised groups in the world.
And how does the government amend all of this? With a national “Sorry Day”, where white people plant a hand in some designated area of soil as a token of their white guilt, and then continue going about their white privileged day.
On top of that, white people here commonly bitch and complain about how “good” indigenous Australians have it and how “thankful” they ought to be to the white man for improving their quality of life. Meanwhile, indigenous Australians have lost almost all sense of identity and culture because of white colonisation.
What is left of Aboriginal identity and culture has been nearly completely destroyed. And most people in this disgustingly privileged country do not give a single god damn fuck.
Australia is a disgusting country when it comes to racism. I am disgusted by my own country.
Kanye West is wearing leather jackets with spikes in them, and wearing jeans with metal bands names on them…
can’t wait for every ghetto swag hoodrat to start dressing like metal heads.
Really can’t wait….All the kids who thought people like me were weird for wearing leather jackets or all black with metal band names mocked us.
I’ve been rocking the leather pants and metal band logo for as long as I can remember. Does this mean I’m a hipster and had “swag” before Kanye?
………you realize how racist that sounds right??????
you realize this is really offensive in general right?
‘oh no black people are going to start wearing the things i wear and like oh no end of an era’
jfc
Its not the matter that he’s black. The issue is that he is a mainstream pop/hip-hop person so because of what he wears is “swag” to the mainstream sensation they’re all gonna wear these things which at one point which I was insulted for wearing all the time.
babe you can’t just say ghetto swag hoodrat tho……..
Completely shutting someone’s opinion down simply because of a slightly rude sentence is what’s really offensive. Didn’t know Tumblr was synonymous with censorship.
i know this whole debacle happened last night, but i thought this was important. further evidence that the anti-black collective will take the side of “freedom of speech” over regulating racist behavior any day (i have this theory that white people don’t see racism as problematic until they’re being called out on it or it applies to them, cuz ~reverse racism~).
because to the white supremacist mindset, you can say something as offensive as “ghetto swag hoodrat” without consequences because it’s only slightly rude when compared to “shutting down someone’s opinion.” now THAT’S offensive.
i’ve also found that white people who spew the, “i can be as offensive as i want because freedom of speech” rhetoric aren’t fond of censorship, and who is, really? but the problem with this is that the people who reason by this logic are themselves trying to shut down, to use their words, PoC calling attention to hate speech and racist behaviors (in case you don’t see where i’m going, that’s a form of censorship in it’s own right).
this is longer than i wanted it to be. tl;dr, this cheese faced ho said racism is slightly rude when compared to “shutting down an entire opinion.”
People like the OP will still be weird/ugly/sad for dressing covered in spikes
Black just rock it better, let it yo
Us ghetto swag hoodrats jacked your style
Just like white people have jacked our style in music, fashion, and everything else…
equality is
i have $0 and you have $1,000,000
someone gives us both $5.
that’s equality.
i want justice.So quit bitching and work.
Get the fuck off my post, you don’t even know what I’m talking about..? lmao this post has literally nothing to do with money or working ya damn weirdo.
kanye isn’t dumb, if he’d kept that album called ‘rich black american’ he’d lose almost all his white fanbase
Malcolm X on the 1963 Birningham church bombings where 4 little girls were killed and on the murder of young Black teens by policemen right afterwards.
Taken from the Robert F. Williams CD audio documentary “Self-Defense, Self-Respect & Self-Determination.”
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream—I see an American nightmare.”
| Malcolm X
- What racists could say when they get called out by like 100+ people for being racist: I apologize, that was racist and wrong.
- What racists do say: THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT, YOU'RE MISINTERPRETING, I HAVE BLACK FRIENDS, I'M NOT WHITE, I'M ________, I THINK ALL RACES SHOULD BE TREATED EQUALLY, I'M JUST SAYING THAT yap yap yap yap yap
Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz - May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965. Happy Birthday.
NO.
If yahoo changes tumblr I’m deleting.
Are you fucking serious? family friendly?they’re going to take away all those porn/horny posts.. it’s not fair! lol
