“Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one is blamed for the policies that entrap Indigenous people inside in the first place... this same blameless fatalism... has long underscored Australia’s Indigenous policy,” says @UNSWLaw Scientia PhD candidate @AJ_Whittaker.https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/i-cant-breathe-suffocating-truth-australia%E2%80%99s-race-relations?utm_source=unsw&utm_medium=social-team …
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The tacit acceptance of Indigenous deaths in custody demonstrates Australia’s endemic blindness to violence against its First Nations people, says
@UNSWLaw Scientia PhD candidate and Gomeroi woman,@AJ_Whittaker.1 reply 4 retweets 16 likesShow this thread
For Australian protesters, wearing facemasks with the words ‘I can’t breathe’ across their mouths resurrects the memory of David Dungay Jr’s death in custody in 2015. The 26-year-old Dunghutti man passed away, saying “I can’t breathe” 12 times before losing consciousness.pic.twitter.com/N9uCnn1SCi
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