Courtney Jaye
Smart for an Aboriginal
Courtney Jaye recounts the rife racism she experienced as an Aboriginal undergraduate student...and how she returned for a master’s degree five years later thinking faculty and students would be less racist, but they weren’t.
When my brand-new lecturer asked if there were any Aboriginal people in the room, I shyly raised my hand. Naively, actually. In a turn of events that surprises absolutely no person of colour, I was brought into conversations as the 'blak voice' from that moment on, as though that was the only interesting thing about me.