Not sure that I should highlight this, given I don't independently know any details of her life struggles, but surely I can't be the only person to read this and not conclude that it sounds like a case of neuroticism (or some other mental health diagnosis) which finds a convenient blame outlet in claims of extreme racism. (She's not the only neurotic sounding indigenous woman - including several in academia - who are on Twitter. They really are going to explode if the Voice referendum fails.)
As with Sandy O'Sullivan, there seems to be an awareness that they are known as "difficult" or "too much", even within their own group, who they get upset with if they don't take the same line.
What bothers me most about it is that this rhetoric is extremely unhelpful messaging to young indigenous who we want to succeed in the system they live in (a modern, capitalist State with a pretty good, if imperfect, welfare system), rather than live lives of continual resentment.
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