Yolngu award-winning rapper Baker Boy has shared a powerful statement about 'rampant' racism in Australia in response to the ongoing unrest in the United States over the death of an unarmed black man.
Hundreds gather in Sydney as part of latest Australian Black Lives Matter protest.some of the difficulties he has in Australia as an Aboriginal man.
“This is my life and I am scared, I have anxiety about going to unknown places like a different café from my usual, not to mention the challenge of touring from fear of racism, that yes, is still rampant here in Australia too,” he said. With over 430 First Nations deaths in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991, Baker Boy urged non-Indigenous Australians to take the opportunity to educate themselves about their own country.
“I hope what you’re seeing in America right now is opening your eyes to the stolen land that you live on here in Australia… and most devastatingly, opening your eyes to the over 400 deaths in custody of Indigenous Australians without a single officer charged,” the statement said.He urged people to take their activism beyond social media and call out racist"jokes" or behaviour by family members and friends.
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