Stan and deliver

Grant applies the tourniquet

Whatever other issues Stan Grant has spoken to, can I say, as a consumer of news, that I deeply appreciate him saying this:

"I'm not walking away for a while because of racism - we get that far too often. I'm not walking away because of social media hatred.

I need a break from the media. I feel like I'm part of the problem. And I need to ask myself how, or if, we can do it better…

“We in the media must ask if we are truly honouring a world worth living in. Too often, we are the poison in the bloodstream of our society. I fear the media does not have the love or the language to speak to the gentle spirits of our land.”

There are far better people than me to talk about the matters of race that Grant raised in this ABC article and in his sign-off from Qanda, and I would point you to this piece by Luke Pearson at Indigenous X as a starting place. As well, this Patreon piece by Sami Shah reminds us of the institutional nature of the racism visited upon Shah himself, Stan Grant, and countless…