In class I’ve been asked why people say white people have privilege. So, let’s talk about it. Here’s my TikTok video and the script below: @racialliteracysolidarity ♬ original sound – RacialLiteracySolidarity The concept seems to have come from Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 essay, ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible…
Week 3 of The Racial State is on Whiteness, White Possession and White Supremacy. The philosopher of race, Helen Ngo has written a very good article discussing the potential problems with the concept of white privilege, ‘On white privilege, white priority and white supremacy’. I have…
I gave this talk a year ago, just after so-called ‘Harmony Day’. Thinking about white supremacy and white crisis’today so I thought I’d post it here in case of it’s of any use. My 8-year old daughter was getting ready for ‘Harmony Day’ the other day,…
I was happy to have been asked to speak alongside Uncle Ken Canning at Politics in the Pub in Sydney in March 2018. You can watch the video of the talk here:
The racism of the Brexit campaign set the scene for the murder of Jo Cox. Her brutal killing is continuous with Breivik’s Utoya massacre. Then as now the peddlers of hate, from the those who ‘bravely’ spoke of the failures of multiculturalism, to those inciting hooligans…