A dark cloud lingers after another violent Indigenous death – but the skies are never really clear for First Nations Australians | Craig Quartermaine
We still have our humanity despite repeated attempts to extinguish it. We will persist because we are built different
The most confronting part of writing an opinion piece about violent Indigenous deaths is that they’re timeless. There are sound legal reasons why you can’t go into too much detail about a particular case while an investigation is ongoing and the accused has yet to face trial. This week a man was charged with the murder of Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey, who Western Australian police said was an “innocent victim of a violent attack”. While police are investigating the claims that racism may have played a part in the attack, they have also made clear they are not speculating about the reasons for the alleged murder and I do not intend to do that here.
Whatever really happened that day, there is a dense cloud weighing over my community at the moment, but the skies are never really clear for us. While that may sound morbid I need a metaphor for this article and that one’s gonna have to do.
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