Harmony Day: The Depoliticising of Racism
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4 min readMar 21, 2021
How Australia took a day about anti-racism and turned it into a day about the colour orange.
The 21st of March every year has been designated by the United Nations (U.N) as the day to commemorate the International Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IERD). On that date in 1960, police killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid in Sharpeville, South Africa. Six years…
