Australia is so wedded to racism that having two people of colour nominees for the Gold Logie (the top award for TV personalities) had led to a furore.
From an appalling on air conversation by two TV hosts “joking” that one of them, a White woman, was “too White” to win an award; to a racist article denouncing Logie nominee, Waleed Aly, for being “biased” on terrorism, the media discourse has fed racist public discussion of who is worthy of mainstream acclaim.
Aly is Australia-born of Egyptian background, and a qualified lawyer and an academic. Lee Lin Chin is an outstanding journalist, and the first person from our national broadcaster dedicated to migrant-Australians (SBS News) to be nominated for a Logie. She’s a first generation Australian of Indonesian background.
Read an excellent analysis on Daily Life:
“To those accustomed to privilege, every step towards equality may indeed resemble oppression. But to the rest of us, it’s a marathon without an end.”
Note
The quote in this heading is attributed to many public figures, but with no clear traceable origin. It seems to have existed for many decades, but popularised from 1997 onward.
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