Moments of Permanence - Miscellany

From: sami Date: June 10th, 2010 05:58 am (UTC) Re: PS (Link)

It is privilege, as well. On the one hand: where I live, "black" isn't really used that way, because African-descended black people aren't really a target of racism in my experience; Aborigines and Asians (in that order) are, and neither is generally referred to using black or darkness-representational terms. (Because black and associated terms means African-descended black.)

On the other hand: I'm not sure this is going to be equally true in all parts of Australia, as opposed to the parts of Perth where I grew up, suddenly, and in any case it's not true every where.

Regardless: I'm white, so this is not my call, and I apologise absolutely for using those words at all.

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From: silverai.livejournal.com Date: June 10th, 2010 11:33 am (UTC) Re: PS (Link)

Oh hey, "black" is totally used for aboriginal people, quite a lot. In fact, they themselves identify with it as far as I can tell. I've been listening to Noongar Radio (100.9fm) for the last month or two, and they definitely use it quite often. I'm aware of several racist jokes regarding the word black and aborigines too.

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