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[dreamer_easy]

International Blog Against Racism Week 2009 runs from 27 July - 2 August. And I ain't ready. I had mad plans to write up a big essay on slavery in Australia (oh yes) but I just haven't managed to do it in time. Next year. I will post the links I collected while writing my Time Unincorporated essay, though.

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[alawston.livejournal.com]

I thought about participating, but I think I'd be a bit too downbeat. During a lengthy piss-up in the small hours of last Tuesday, a South African neighbour took my desire to live in Richmond as a clue that I was a secret apartheid enthusiast or something, and unleashed a foaming rant about Black South Africans that I can just never, ever repeat, including several 'jokes' (they had to explain some of the words to me) and, of course, a five minute whinge about how he wasn't racist, it's 'just the culture'.

Most of the time, I'm pretty positive about how far society has come in a single generation, but that arsehole majorly shat on my buzz. I've joked for a long time that South Africans come over to London because South Africa isn't quite racist enough for them any more, but it was horrific to be proved right in quite so much detail.