I M Not A Racist But By Melissa Sushenko Summary

Melissa Lucashenko is a writer of literary fiction and literary non-fiction for adults. She also has written novels for teenagers such as Too Flash in 2002. She was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1967. She is an Indigenous Australian (she has a familial heritage from the Australian continent before the colonization of British people) and her heritage is from European (Russian/ Ukrainian forebears) and Bundjalung (original people from a region of the northern area of New South Wales and the region of south-east of Queensland). Lucashenko began her writing career as a freelance journalist and has since written numerous novels, essays, and articles on topics ranging from land rights and environmentalism to identity and relationships. Her work

The article represents what we call racism toward white aboriginal Australians, because a long time ago, her people (white people who came from aboriginal Australians) were victims from what they used to call “the bleaching”. It was when they took aboriginal people and made them have babies with white people, for Australians to become white. The article is a critical examination of the Australian society's popular culture of natural racism, and how it is often covered up as humor or satire. She begins by sharing her personal experiences of racism in Australia, highlighting how it has impacted her life and the lives of many others like her. She then looks into the concept of "I'm not a racist but" statements, which she declares are often used to mask racist behaviors. She highlights how these statements are often used to excuse discriminatory attitudes towards Indigenous Australians. I will focus on three examples which are representative of Melissa Lucashenko’s point of view on “I’m Not a Racist But…”. The first example I will focus on is the problem of racism, the second one is the white privilege and the last one is the continuity of colonialism and racism in

These advantages can include access to better education, better jobs, and higher wages, as well as greater visibility and representation in media and politics. White privilege does not mean that all white individuals have an easy or straightforward life, but rather that their race does not present a systematic disadvantage or barrier to success, unlike many people of color. In her essay, she said that only a type of white people can have whiteness privilege. These people are “pale, blue-eyed” but also include “language, customs, religion, gender, relations”. What seems wrong here is that they put people outside of that box because they don’t fit the white critere, and because of that some of them faced or are still facing discrimination, hate and racism. She takes the example of reversing the categories. What will happen if only 1 out of 10 people in Australia are white? Well, there will be black people everywhere who don’t speak or poorly speak english, everything would be like before colonialism. Like it had never happened to Australia. She also said that white people would be “unemployed and there are white ghettos, and where white people who die in custody had it coming”. And because of that they will say “I’m not prejudiced against white