How to racist while supporting Black Lives Matter

It takes a white person to be racist while supporting Black Lives Matter.

Note: This post contains names of Indigenous people who have died.

Today, I saw a white person put up a poster proclaiming that "Black Lives Matter". However, all of the names were that of Americans. None of them were Australian.

This was racist because there are Australian victims of police violence against Aborigines. That person was concerned enough about what was happening in the USA, but was unaware of the same thing happening in Australia. You cannot say that Black lives matter if you cannot name at least one of the following:

• Joyce Clark
• David Dungay Jr
• Tanya Day
• Eric Whittaker
• TJ Hickey
• William Farmer
• Cameron Doomadgee
• Patrick Fisher

This is not an exhaustive list.

Even today, there was NSW Police investigate officer filmed kicking, pinning down Indigenous teen during arrest:

Nathan Moran from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, based in Redfern, said the teenager's arrest was an example of over-policing and the excessive use of force.