フィービー・トンキンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (フィービー・トンキンInstagram)「Still image from the music video for “Black Child” by Birdz Feat. Mo’Ju. Words by @moju_music - For those of you who are living outside “Australia”, I say I’m from Australia so you all understand where I am, even though “Australia” as such does not really exist. This continent is made up of over 500 Indigenous Nations and sovereignty was never ceded. (You may have also clocked that in my introduction “Filipino” was also in parentheses, and that is because the term Filipino is also a product of colonisation… but that’s another story). For those of you who don’t know, Indigenous a.k.a First Nations a.k.a. Aboriginal people have been living on this land for over 60,000 years and we are one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world. The term “Black” has been used to refer to us ever since Europeans first colonised in 1788. Whilst originally this term was in direct reference to skin colour and often used as a pejorative, the terms Black, Blak or Blackfulla are used today by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders to indicate our Aboriginal heritage & culture regardless of our skin colour. The reason I am telling you all of this is because on my travels around the world playing music, I have realised that a lot of people do not know or understand the Black experience within the context of my country. This is no doubt, due to the deliberate and ongoing systemic whitewashing, erasure and denial of our culture. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain to you why the Black Lives Matter movement is important and relevant in so-called-Australia and why we stand in solidarity with Black America and all Black Indigenous People of Colour (BIPOC) around the world who are fighting for change. * Aboriginal people in Australia are incarcerated at 4 times the rate of Black Americans. * In 2019 100% of incarcerated youth in Northern Territory were Aboriginal. * Aboriginal people make up 3.3% of the population in Australia, yet we represent 27% of the prison population. * 437 Aboriginal people have died in police custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. #sharethemicnow #sharethenicnowaustralia Continued in the comments...」6月16日 7時02分