We need to talk about racism

Mental Makeover

Lauren Curtis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In Australia, racism towards Indigenous Australians is embedded into the fabric of our country. It has become part of our culture. It presents itself in subtle, covert ways that make it difficult to pinpoint, so if you pull someone up on their "innocent joke", you'll be shunned and told to "lighten up". Or better yet, to stop being so "politically correct" because it was "just a joke". In a culture that celebrates lightheartedness and demonises taking things too seriously, how do we evolve as a nation? How do we acknowledge our past for what it truly is, and take accountability for the ways in which we are consciously or subconsciously repeating the toxic behaviour that continues to keep Indigenous Australians oppressed and marginalised? While I still have so much to learn myself, I share my perspective on a few small, foundational steps we can all take to help end the institutional racism PoC face every day. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves, not theirs.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase,
0:06.4	the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.
0:12.2	This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give
0:18.2	your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.
0:23.6	Hey guys, welcome back. I have wanted to do this episode for months now and I apologize
0:30.0	that it has taken me as long as it has. I don't want anyone to think that I had forgotten about
0:35.4	covering this topic because I absolutely
0:38.0	hadn't. I just hadn't recorded a podcast episode in a while and life just got in the way.
0:44.6	Obviously, I did that last episode about what life has been like recently to give you a little bit of an insight.
0:50.0	But I'm here talking about it now and I actually initially wanted to cover this topic,
0:57.1	which is race relevant to Australia, but I mean, I'm sure it's relevant worldwide by interviewing
1:04.1	Indigenous Australians and letting them tell their stories rather than me talking about it.
1:09.5	But even though I would definitely still like
1:12.7	to do that, I feel as though it may actually be better for me to speak about it as a white
1:20.4	person who is most likely speaking to white people that are listening to this first to kind of set the tone because I want to make
1:31.6	sure that we are on the same page in the first place that like you are going to be open and
1:38.7	receptive to the information that you may hear from them and to their stories rather than immediately
1:47.3	switched off because you don't really get it or you're not informed or educated in certain
1:54.1	things that most people, most Australians really aren't because in this country there seems
2:00.3	to be a real pattern of
2:01.4	casual racism.
2:02.6	I just wouldn't want those stories to be falling on deaf ears, so I really wanted to make
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