interrupting racism

#NotOnOurWatch II: Tattoo man vs car guard

activities, race vibes, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with

#NotOnOurWatch II: Tattoo man vs car guard

Having spoken about and encouraged the #NotOnOurWatch hashtag commitment for probably over a year now, i just had my second big encounter [you can read about the first one here], which i wrote about on Facebook: Climb out of my car at Canal Walk to see this decently large tattooed white guy swearing at a smaller foreign black man car guard cos of some entitled not-getting-the-information-he-was-looking-for nonsense so I shouted at him and walked over [...]

By brettfish|2017-07-09T07:09:23+02:00July 8th, 2017|activities, race vibes, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with|2 Comments

Breaking Bread with Trevor: #NotOnOurWatch

activities, race vibes, South Africa, thorts of other people

Breaking Bread with Trevor: #NotOnOurWatch

Have you heard about the #NotOnOurWatch movement of interrupting racism? i have really enjoyed having some back and forth conversations with my friend Trevor [whose work you can see on his Swart Donkey blog] and this one we had in the last few weeks, that has now been converted to a blog post, was one of my favourite... just in terms of getting a conversation started and hopefully there is some food for thought in [...]

By brettfish|2016-07-18T06:20:29+02:00July 18th, 2016|activities, race vibes, South Africa, thorts of other people|1 Comment