Friday, May 10, 2019

Regarding #FourCorners on International Students as Cash Cows - Free Advice to White People (take it whichever way you like):

Dear White People,

When you are talking, writing, or making a film, about non-white people, a non-racist take will *not* come to you naturally, no it won't; it is not your default position, no its not; no matter how nice or how well meaning you are (and I'll generously assume that you are).

A take on racialised people where racism has been minimalised as much as possible is something you need to labour on - a lot -,  this includes (but not only) listening carefully, interacting and integrating the voices of the racialised that you are talking about, and most importantly, thinking them as part of the people you are addressing as opposed to 'talking about them'. Even the most seasoned anti-racist writer, and i humbly include myself here, will easily lapse into racism without a continuous intense, reflexive and vigilant labour. you might think that's a lot to do and it is, but you need to think of it as the price you pay for all the privileges that you otherwise get from the racist structure in which you are positioned. there is no easy and comfortable path away from racism; easy and comfortable is the path you are already on because of racism.

When you haven't laboured on what you are doing in this way,  when you have not reflected and sweated and subjected what you are doing to a stringent critique, it will merely reflect your structural position within the power structures, That is, it will turn out to be racist (yes it will).

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