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Flat White

African community leaders can’t shift the blame

4 January 2018

1:30 PM

4 January 2018

1:30 PM

This is how I would like you to think of the growing youth crimes from a small group of young Sudanese in Victoria. As an African-Australian, I have been dismayed by the ongoing negative publicity surrounding “African-Australians”.

As someone who has run a political campaign for a local council in 2016, I saw and heard first-hand the public fear of residents and also received racial slurs against me as an African candidate.

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