@Mrsorganmorgan
You are misinformed. She did not say that. Although there are social media trolls and some lesser media outlets that would like you to believe she said that. Their aim is that you will do exactly what they intend for you to do - not like her..
plus if you know you are not racist what is there to be upset about?
Personally I’m a white woman from a mostly white patriarchal society where both misogyny and racism are systemic. and I am aware that as well meaning as I am, I’m going to be racist at times because I’m not only not going to realise I’m being racist, I participate in a society that has racism at its core. A society that is built on racism. No, we’re not going around saying racist things. Not all of us anyway. We aren’t having conscious racist thoughts (and if we do, we correct our erroneous perceptionS) - but again, not all of us do so. A person’s duty is to realise what racism they might be practicing, albeit completely unknowingly, and then to stop it.
I come from Australia, a land that was colonised (in fact it was Invaded by the British) but the British had been what they thought, very clever. Before the. 1788 colonisation/invasion Britain declared Australia to be “Terra Nullius” - no man’s land. Effectively the British thought this gave them absolute right to invade, colonise and settle taking land from the people who were already here, and setting up a systematic series of the most terrible policies which involved masssacre - often by poisoning First Nations peoples drinking holes - so they massacred whole families from babies to Elders in age - Apartheid (the South African system of apartheid was modelled on Australia’s system , stealing their children, deliberately making them sick, after stealing their land they would sometimes put them on missions on that very land, and give them food like flour and sugar which was not at all nutritious, stolen children were sent to kids homes - not particularly treated well in most of those homes and then around 13 they were sent as slave labour, given food and often most rudimentary lodgings and in those places were often treated most foul. The children often never saw their parents again. Their mothers mourned them, and First Nations people families and culture was often decimated. Not completely, but only because white society came up against Resistance.
First Nations people did fight back - however that was never put into the school history books. We know now about The Australian Wars. The Frontier Wars. Neither were the massacres, the stolen generations etc in school history books. In the late 60s First Nations people set up a tent embassy outside Australian Federal Parliament that remains there to this day. I could go on, but I’d have to write a book and I’m not a good writer. And First Nations people are the ones to tell the story.
But if you are white British or White Australian you’d better know that you have benefitted from the stealing of land and massacres and murders of the people who lived there from start. Today you live as you do, in part because the British govt. and the Australian Federal govt from 1901 did all these bad bad things.
The amount of land owned by the British Monsrchy in Australia to this day is substantial. The Church of England (now known as the Anglican Church) also have very substantial landholdings. People got rich off what other people owned. The second sons of British aristocratic families were sent here to make their fortunes on land bought for s pittance from the British Govt. The convicts sent here in the most terrible conditions - brutalised themselves often brutalised members of First Nations people. The examples go on. But we live in societies that have benefited from all the above: