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Go ahead, white Australia, eat your kebabs while you remind us of your ‘values’
When I think about white fragility and its moral pretensions I marvel at the great hoax of it all
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
- The Guardian
I know who I am.
Most racialised people do. History matters to us.
We know that the answers to who we are as a nation lie in a story that did not start with the last election or 9/11 or Tampa or deaths in custody or the stolen generations.
We know that if we were to approach the question of who we are as a nation the way we would a jigsaw puzzle then the most logical and coherent approach is to first assemble the…
We know that the frame of Australia is race.
As a white…