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in case y’all weren’t aware

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jeepsarmitage:

Cultural warning: the following post and links depict names and images of persons deceased. 

• a 17 year old child was hooded and strapped to mechanical restraint chair in Northern Territory detention
  
• there is legitimate torture (tear gassing!!) of indigenous children held in Don Dale detention centre
• a boy was being forcefully stripped naked, held in a hog tie position, carried by the neck and thrown across a room 
  
• Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says he was not aware of allegations of abuse within the Northern Territory juvenile detention system, because it had not “piqued his interest”.
  
• a royal commission has been called
• more 
• info 
• here 

protect your aboriginal brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and children!

white australia has been ignoring stories like this for years. 

in January this year John Lawrence, (at the centre of the latest allegations) was talking specifically about the gassing incident depicted on Four Corners last night. And yet, it took video of the incident for anyone to actually care.

I wrote a post about this back in april, and have added to it since. 

“The first is what we saw on Four Corners overnight is how authorities behave when they know they’re being recorded. Can you imagine how they behave when they think they’re not?

Here’s how: Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley beat Mulrunji Doomadgee to death on the floor of the Palm Island watchhouse in 2004. Even so, shortly after Mulrunji lay dying, writhing in agony on the floor of his cell, video recorded a Palm Island police officer kicking him to see if he was awake. He was dead.

The same video recorded Hurley a few minutes later sliding against the wall to the floor, with his head in his hands, after realizing what he’d done.

And yet, Hurley was acquitted by a jury for the killing. We didn’t have video of the actual flogging, so Hurley went on to a long and more prosperous career in the Queensland Police, until non Aboriginal people starting becoming his victims (he fired his gun at a car during a police chase, and then threatened a female colleague in a separate incident).” (x)

Why can’t y’all just believe us Aboriginal people, when we tell stories of the brutal violence perpetrated against us by people in authority?

If a blackfulla tells a story of systemic abuse, y’all demand more evidence. Photo evidence. Video evidence. Several corroborated witness testimonies…and yet y’all still the silent about it?

What everybody saw on 4 corners last night will happen again. It will happen tomorrow and the day after and the day after that. And it will happen across any part of the Aboriginal life experience you choose to focus on.

so, to my white followers: please don’t ignore us. 

to my aboriginal brothers and sisters: stay safe. 

ya Allah they want us to burn … my heart is always in the NT. 

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