Star of "historically white supremacist sport" captured for posterity and yours for ninety-nine dollars!
Six months ago, at an exhibition event funded by a white American billionaire, the two-time world champion Tyler Wright dropped a knee for four hundred and thirty-nine seconds in solitary with Black Lives Matter, the number representing “one second for every First Nations person in Australia who has lost their life in police custody since 1991.”
Tyler correctly raised the issue of black deaths in custody, something that’s been in the public consciousness in Australia since a royal commission was called in 1987 after a horror run of indigenous Australians dying while in police custody.
The result wasn’t quite so clear cut.
The four-year long Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody “did not find higher rates of death of Aboriginal people compared to non-Aboriginal people.”
And, now, “Overall, the rate of Indigenous deaths in custody has reduced since 1991, as of June 2020 lower than the rate of death of non-Indigenous people.”
Of 2608 total deaths in police custody between 1979 and 2018, roughly five hundred of ‘em were indigenous.
To celebrate the moment, factually correct or no, the World Surf League, a sort of media house for the Vulnerable Adult Learner surfer, has released an eighteen by twenty-four inch poster, which you can buy for twenty-nine dollars unframed or ninety-nine framed, hanging hardware included.
The poster is modelled by a thin blonde woman, a nod, I suppose, to the League’s legendary diversity.
Unfortunately I have to agree.
#abolivesmatter #fuckthepopo
absolute legends! all three of them. Norman stood with them in solidarity and with a human rights badge.
“Thirty-eight years after the three made history, John John gave eulogies and were pallbearers at Norman’s funeral”.
So…..because she is white and supreme at the art of surfing,does that mean she should cancel herself ??
Don’t worry
The next Gen as in present 16 Yr olds don’t give a fuk about the climate or politics.
Bless em,
You on site?
Fun fact: John Smith forgot is pair of black gloves so Peter suggested they wear one each!
Infact this is the most fucked thing to dribble out of Pro Surfing ever.
EWLM
That’s what my wife used to say, before we got married
white guilt wont solve racism…
https://youtu.be/BVs9AN76euQ
taking a whole new approach to groveling
Any chance your insider at the WSL could leak how many of these actually get sold? My bet is less than 10.
From my standpoint, I have to question why she has no “indigenous” support!?? It seems a white chic is running her mouth, then another white chic is selling the wares. What a f grift, right off of the “indigenous” folks. LoFl!!!
E-Lo is a white chic. Perfect
Any stats on the number of white men who died in custody as opposed to white women over the same period of time? Just asking
In breaking news the cultural diverse WSL has replaced an injured male American Italian ,with a Hawaiian first name and a surname meaning brave , with a Maltese Australian from a flooded Port Macquarie
Matty will give them a run for their money!
Yep … I thought he should have received the original wildcard for the 4 events that somehow ended up with San Clemente’s Cosby Colapinto .
Hey Bicko, when Newcastle starts do they get winter swells like Bells this time of year? I’m trying to make sense of the new dates and locations for the tour this time around. Is summer over with by now?
It’s a good time to travel to the east coast in early autumn …. at least it was pre Covid ….. because there were definitely less people in the water with the water slowly starting to get not so warm , I can’t say cold …. because it really doesn’t get cold , the days are getting shorter , and the winter field sports ( rugby league , netball , soccer etc ) have kicked in for kids and adults alike , which keeps them out of the water until September .
It’s usually a fruitful period ,swell wise , with possibilities from the south , east and north directions ….. Newcastle likes all directions ….. Narrabeen is at its best in a NE swell but will cope with other directions ….. Compared to elsewhere the East Coast is a windy coast but this time of year with the land temperatures falling it is less windy than usual. From memory though the real winter swells don’t kick in till mid May ….I haven’t lived there since 92 but have been going back regularly in March for the last 10 years …but am no expert … hope that helps
Thanks Bicko that helps a lot. Saw a pick of Narrabeen from yesterday, looked fun.
It’s heavily localized and the running joke is that to catch a set wave there you have to be local and over 50 ….. I surfed there occasionally in the 80s , traveling over from Cronulla ,90 minutes south on the other side of the city and standard procedure was to park in the blow in section of the carpark as far away from the locals as possible …. there was always only 2 of us , and we paddled out separately and didn’t acknowledge that we knew each other during the session ( my mate , who I was surfing with ,had finished 3rd in the Pro Junior held at Narrabeen , which was the unofficial world junior championship at the time ….so we weren’t being treated as kooks , just outsiders ) … fun long running lefts and a shorter rip bowl right , ruled by some of the best Australian QS Surfers of today , former world champs , a plethora of former CT surfers , and legends like Simon Anderson and Terry Fitz and hardcore local lords .
Fellow goofy foot so those lefts look fun. I used to ride boards from San Diego so every time I surfed certain spots in Santa Cruz I would be treated like a college kid from down south, even though I was from north of Santa Cruz. Kind of a big free for all around here now. Only a few spots are still regulated.
I wonder if the locals have been able to deal with the hordes of soft toppers.
I’m confused, doesn’t the Rip Curl sticker not indicate her support for slave labor? So is this a pro slavery poster?
Tsk-Tsk, there you go with that common sense. That has no place in this generations “self promoting” virtue signalling.
Derek I wish you had crunched the numbers a little harder, or is it just that you are imploring us to read between the lines?
Listen to them
Not the white kooks
https://youtu.be/l9eZzN_CEso
Can someone displaying intelligence like Shearer or yourself share an opinion in regards to Prodan’s spiel at the start of the latest Lineup (Jordy) podcast. Or bloody do it as a Dirty Water, I’m hankering for one of them. Please and thanks
what’d he say
People like you and Otto think they’re rebels but they’re just repeating the things and cultural mores learned from their parents.
You go from “I think there’s an argument that dudes like Otto are rebels” to “People like you and Otto think they’re rebels…”.
Do you see the problem?
That was Nick Carroll’s take, not mine.
Though I was confused because I thought he was asking what Dave Prodan and Nick Carroll said on last weeks podcast. He actually asked what Dave Prodan said on this week’s podcast about the social media response to his and Nick’s conversation.
edit: In the first 5 min of this week’s “The Lineup” Dave Prodan called the “all lives matter” people fascists, which is a lot less interesting than what he and Nick said the week before.
If you want to hear what Nick Carroll said in context here is a timestamped link:
https://youtu.be/qsLEFZiduT…
Tyler Wright comes up at 30:51
For the record I’m pretty supportive and sympathetic to BLM and “wokery” even though I make fun of it sometimes.
These are all half baked and stream of conscious. I really haven’t fully thought through this whole thing.
I’ve seen the “rebelliousness” of surfing in the 60’s and 70’s was really a rebellion against growing up. Nick Carrol characterized it in that podcast as “rebelling against a job”. I’ve talked to dudes who started surfing in the 60’s as kids and they all kinda thought they’d stop surfing when they grew up and got jobs. So in a way surfing was an act of rebellion against growing up and getting a wife, house, mortgage, white picket fence, etc. A lot of cultural changes happened at that time, attitudes towards leisure changed, and it’s now generally more acceptable for adults to do things that culturally were only appropriate for children before the 1960s. I’m sure there are several books describing these changes in detail. Personally, I think surfing lost the core of its rebelliousness with this change, but it didn’t really lose all of it. Especially since lineups are essentially a borderland with separate rules and power structures that exist alongside society at large. It’s not completely separate, but not fully integrated either. (n.b. I kinda think this separate power structure is why so many VALs have such a hard time with surf culture – they’re otherwise successful/powerful people who put themselves into a situation where they have less power than some 12 year old kids and its hard for their ego to cope).
Now onto the question – are the “anti-woke” people rebels? I think yes and no. It’s important to distinguish two types of power. There’s the power that comes with money, being in govt, etc. Then there is the power that comes with being able to set cultural narratives. I would still say that, on balance, the anti wokes have more money/govt/etc power than the wokes. However the number of anti woke people with real money/govt/etc. power is obscured because the wokes absolutely dominate media. They have the power to set the cultural narrative, and the wokes have used that to change the behavior/messaging of people with money/govt/etc. power – even when more of those people are “anti-woke”.
So I think there’s an argument that dudes like Otto are rebels – they are rebelling against the dominant media narrative – but it’s a very reactionary rebellion, which kind of undercuts it.
edited for clarity.
Car crash introduction
There’s so much cringe to this I don’t even know where to begin.
Yep the real issue is rates of incarceration not deaths in custody.
Indigenous Australians are locked up at a rate 10 times that of the honkeys.
Imagine if the woke crew tackled this issue, they could be righteous and also actually demonstrate that they know what they’re talking about.
Win win.
Good point man. It’s entirely not woke to actually focus attention on anything practical. Seems wokeness is more about gesturing on values and beliefs about societal issues via delivering lectures in social media to everyone like we are all in kindergarten.
again, maybe they commit more crime?
When you commit 10x the amount of crime, you get locked up 10x more.