Racism Kills.
Jun. 29th, 2009 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logansrogueThe tragic story of the Malu Sara, an unseaworthy vessel that sank in Torres Strait, taking the five people on board with it.
It was a matter of what I consider aggressive negligence. It was criminal negligence. These people didn't just die because those that were supposed to help them were incompetent - they died because people HATED them for their skin colour. What else could it possibly be? How else do you describe leaving someone to drown in a raging sea other than hate? Phoning someone up and making jokes about the emergency beacon? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!?
Fuck. I was so mad by the end of Four Corners. Fucking incandescent. I don't know how these motherfuckers sleep at night, I really fucking don't.
I ache for the people who lost their family because of this. I know how close kin can be. I have an absolutely HUGE family, over 100 people in it all told, and we're a clan. Grandpa was Scottish, Granny was Maltese. You combine those senses of family and you have a damned tight-knit group. Even if you're not related by blood, they're your people. They're a part of you, damn it. I couldn't imagine losing family members like that, knowing people cared so fucking little.
I want this to end, damn it. I want people to stop treating Indigenous Australians like crap just because they're a different colour! God, we owe them SO MUCH.
Fucking hell, it just breaks my heart, people. And I'm really fucking mad it took watching Four Corners before I heard about it. Why wasn't this all over the freakin' news? When one rich son of a bitch gets lost on his boat due to going out there on his own, the Navy gets called in and it's all over the fucking news. When a black family is out on the ocean, doing a VERY important damned job in protecting our waters, and they're left to drown in horrible conditions? Not. A. Fucking. Peep.
I fucking hate you, Mainstream Media.
It was a matter of what I consider aggressive negligence. It was criminal negligence. These people didn't just die because those that were supposed to help them were incompetent - they died because people HATED them for their skin colour. What else could it possibly be? How else do you describe leaving someone to drown in a raging sea other than hate? Phoning someone up and making jokes about the emergency beacon? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!?
Fuck. I was so mad by the end of Four Corners. Fucking incandescent. I don't know how these motherfuckers sleep at night, I really fucking don't.
I ache for the people who lost their family because of this. I know how close kin can be. I have an absolutely HUGE family, over 100 people in it all told, and we're a clan. Grandpa was Scottish, Granny was Maltese. You combine those senses of family and you have a damned tight-knit group. Even if you're not related by blood, they're your people. They're a part of you, damn it. I couldn't imagine losing family members like that, knowing people cared so fucking little.
I want this to end, damn it. I want people to stop treating Indigenous Australians like crap just because they're a different colour! God, we owe them SO MUCH.
Fucking hell, it just breaks my heart, people. And I'm really fucking mad it took watching Four Corners before I heard about it. Why wasn't this all over the freakin' news? When one rich son of a bitch gets lost on his boat due to going out there on his own, the Navy gets called in and it's all over the fucking news. When a black family is out on the ocean, doing a VERY important damned job in protecting our waters, and they're left to drown in horrible conditions? Not. A. Fucking. Peep.
I fucking hate you, Mainstream Media.
