just saw the viral video of an East-Asian Australian influencer being ✨shocked✨ that the Aboriginal man she's interviewing on the street doesn't feel "national pride" and the comments are FULL of anti-Black, anti-Aboriginal racism. you really cannot talk about any form of racism in so-called australia without acknowledging that the white supremacist infrastructure of the nation was built on the attempted genocide and continued disenfranchisement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Blakfellas). the model minority myth in Australia infers a racial hierarchy in which Blakfellas are always at the bottom. i really wish more marginalised Australians, including non-Indigenous Australians of colour, were more willing to acknowledge their settler privilege. I wish they had more empathy and compassion for Blakfellas and understood that their struggles will not go away without solidarity with Blak people because EVERY form of institutionalised racism (like the White Australia Policy) was and is built quite literally on the mass graves of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. and for the record we cannot have pride for a nation built to kill us.