Mississippi’s Freedom Trail — markers of murder, memory and struggle

I first visited Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market near the hamlet of Money in Leflore county Mississippi in 2009 with my friend Mark Bonta, who was a professor at the local Delta State University in nearby Cleveland at the time. Before that visit I’d not heard much of the brutal murder of Emmett Till and [...]

The March for Australia: A March Against Us

Patriotism, Outsourced By Andrew Morrison, Gunditjmara 100 per cent AI The March for Australia promises to be the greatest celebration of contradictions since the invention of “Aussie” lamingtons (a New Zealand dessert wrapped in an Australian flag). Expect a sea of Made in China flags fluttering proudly above convoys of Japanese SUVs and German sedans, [...]

The NT Police Force – 45 years of ‘coons’ and ‘niggers’

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that racist terms of abuse like ‘coons’, ‘niggers’ and the like have long been consigned to history’s dustbin of common usage. However, from the recent revelations in Coroner Armitage’s Report into the death of Kumanjayi Walker it seems that was naïve and, at least among a small group [...]

How good was racism in the ’70s and ’80s! A short history of bigotry in the Northern Territory

Keep Australia Clean (Kill a Coon); If Abos want land they should buy the bastard the same as the whites do. They have no rights to any land whatever. If they don’t want to work under our system – let ‘em starve; People with black legs won’t be served; and Buy some Coon cheese today for catching black mice: Noticeboard, Daly Waters Hotel, 1978.

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