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THE NEON REBEL: The things we say today are the things our children will inherit ... Where does racism live? BY MELAINE KNIGHT In the way we think + feel about people when we look at them who are of a different race + skin colour to us? In the way we think + feel about people who have a different culture to us? In the way we think + feel about others that are different to us as lesser or not as worthy, or their life is not as valuable? In the way we think + feel that others ideas, how they think + feel are not as important or valid as ours? In how we are thinking + then subsequently feeling, lives an ideology called Racism. Rotten at its core. An ideology that stems from the Tree of Oppression. Of which all of its fruit it bears, is rotten. At the heart of understanding the global movement happening, we find Oppression. The Black Lives Matter movement is part of a much bigger more complex affliction of the human race, of which we are all a part of, that needs to be examined if the movement itself is to be understood + be allowed to usher in a new way of living through a shift in consciousness. That said, I want to be very clear that understanding a bigger picture does not in any way erase the plights of the movement happening in the USA right now with African Americans or any experiences people are going through, nor the plights of those afflicted across the planet. And there are many. The BLM Movement has opened up conversations about our own black deaths in custody + our neighbours, all living under oppression. So with this Neon Rebellion I wanted to share voices from this part of the world for our international readership who may not understand what is happening here in Australia or with our close neighbours in Papua New Guinea, & indeed, most white Australians don’t know or understand what’s happening. Im hoping that by looking at the bigger picture we see how all things are related + connected as different branches on the tree of oppression. Oppression Tree via Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa. https://ipsmo.wordpress.com Firstly, in order to start to unpack this massive conversation, it might be necessary to break down Oppression. I acknowledge and respect the traditional owners of the land on which I live, Arakwal Country part of the great Bundjalung Nation. 54 www.reddoormagazine.com
What is Racial Oppression? Definition: “ ...burdening a specific race with unjust or cruel restraints or impositions... It maybe social, systemic, institutionalised or internalised. Social forms include exploitation + mistreatment that is socially supported.” The Black Lives Matter Movement protests in the USA sparked ally protests in Australia + a call to Government to answer why these deaths are still continuing + why the number of Aboriginal people incarcerated is 15 times higher than non-indigenous people + 26 times higher for juveniles. Historically there are 5 primary forms of racial oppression. 1. Genocide + geographical displacement 2. Slavery 3. Second Class Citizenship 4. Non Citizen Labour 5. Diffuse Discrimination The USA, Australia + Papua New Guinea were built on genocide + geographical displacement and slavery. Second class citizenship, non citizen labour + diffuse discrimination are still very active currently. Immigrants are still exploited as cheap labour with no citizen rights or incarcerated in detention centres with sub standard living conditions seeking political asylum. Diffuse discrimination is found buried in everyday language when people refer to people of colour in a way that is derogatory, erasing, as a joke, seemingly less intelligent or subhuman in their capacity to feel & live... And by arguing that opportunities are given to people of colour + that if those statistics are met then racism does not exist + it is somehow their fault if they cannot respond to the “opportunities” as the white dominant culture deems acceptable. And in blaming marginalised groups for the behaviours that are results of poverty, lack of education, support + a long history of intergenerational trauma inflicted upon them by the very system that oppressed them + muted their voices. BLM Movement in Australia echoes the protests in the U.S. https://youtu.be/SBCbsW926N4 In PNG, Amnesty International has recorded there have been over 100000 West Papuan deaths since the 1960s + are on the rise again as renewed activism in the area continues between separatists + civilian militia clashes with the Indonesian Govt. security forces. Raising the West Papuan flag of independence carries a charge of treason with jail terms from 5 years to life. This was so very evident with George Floyd. Police officers killed this man in public, FACT, which led to the global explosion of the Black Lives Matter Movement + a public outcry about racism + police brutality. Many stories circulated the media in the wake of his death saying he was a criminal, trying to discredit his innocence. The implicit bias + racism is implying that somehow he deserved this mistreatment + is diluting + even excusing the behaviour of the white officers. This kind of vitriol oozes the poison that produces the rotten fruit. Here in Australia (between 1991-2020) there have been at least 437 recorded Indigenous Australian deaths in custody + not a single police or prison officer has been charged. Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody in 1991, the percentage of deaths has gone up 150%. Inside West Papua/ NGAIIRE IGTV https://www.instagram.com/p/CBhpwkinlrs/ ISSUE # <strong>23</strong> - LANGUAGE 55
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