Despite this apparent disconnect, we read Fanon today for his startlingly prescient analysis of contemporary ills: the enduring trauma of racism, the persistent plague of white supremacy and xenophobia, the scourge of authoritarianism, and the savagery of colonial domination. Poetic, enraged, and insubordinate, Frantz Fanon gave voice to the anguish of the colonized voiceless and his words continue to resonate with a new global “wretched of the earth.”
Source: The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism
A sense of exhausted déjà vu hung over Court 22A last week as it settled in for the latest round
Salacious as it all was, it’s hard to see how this new evidence will result in too many changes to Lee’s polished judgment. We may have had all our worst fears realised about the dark depths commercial TV is prepared to plumb to chase questionable stories from demonstrable dickheads, but their sordid contribution to the Lehrmann imbroglio – whilst illuminating – has little bearing on the key defences of truth and reasonableness being relied on by Channel 10 and Lisa Wilkinson. Having blown up the sacred notion of the confidentiality owed a source, it’s hard to see Taylor Auerbach getting another job in journalism, though, and Steve Jackson’s contract with the Police Commissioner has been torn up. Who is next to be enveloped in Lehrmann’s toxic mess?
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In 1890 Henry Parkes spoke of “The crimson thread of kinship running through us all.” He believed this “crimson thread” …
The crimson thread of racism festers in the darker interstices of Australian culture
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