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Instead, the panel told the majority White audience that #POC 'could be kind' & allow White people 'to make mistakes.' Final comment of the night from Hamad was that the first place to start undoing racism is to start conversations like the she hosted. All of this is a problem
This conclusion ignores decades of scholarship & practice by Aboriginal people & other #POC. Last night was not the best informed discussion on race. Conversation was interesting in many places, as I documented, but also reproduced hierarchies of race, myths & issues about racism
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There were only a handful of #WOC in the room, in gentrified Newtown, which has been a site of Aboriginal organising & services- amplifying their exclusion from the discussion in 1st place
The scholarship of Black women was being misrepresented yet none of these women were named
The #WOC I was with - all visibly and unambiguously categorised as 'not White' - were uncomfortable with the panel & Q&A. One Black woman was accosted after the panel by a White man in reaction to another self-described 'White passing' man who was allowed to rant during Q&A
Many of these types of events end up catering to Whiteness, putting #POC in the position of educators, absolving White guilt. White people hear panellists say 'what this person did was racist, but they're not racist, they don't know better' (repated TWICE during the panel).
Racism in journalism (which was what the panel discussed and extrapolated uncritically) is not the same as everyday racism & institutional racism
A lot of damage happens when race discussions make poor comparisons to Aboriginal people, #DFV & other examples from yesterday
/Fin
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