. Similar vigils have been planned in regional WA and across Australia.
Cassius’ mum Mechelle Turvey thanked the crowd for attending and told children not to be fearful about walking the streets.“My son was an amazing young boy, we have lots of amazing young people in our community, black, white and brown.Matt Jelonek/Getty Images Cassius’ uncle Mark Kickett, an ordained Uniting Church minister, said the nation was standing at a crossroads.Matt Jelonek/Getty Images“When he was a little boy he said, ‘One day I will be famous and everybody will know my name’,” Kickett said.
“It is time for this nation now to understand the journey of First Nations people and the struggle of our people as we seek to remain who we are, our identity and the challenges that have impacted us from colonisation.Matt Jelonek/Getty ImagesOne of Cassius’ best friends, flanked by other school friends, said the teenager’s name would never be forgotten.
How come nobody bothers to remember the hundreds of indigenous kids killed in indigenous communities every year? The perpetrators have the wrong skin colour per chance? Can’t push a racism, oppressor/oppressed, narrative? No White Guilt dollars to extract from PC politicians?
Probably shouldn’t have stolen that guys stuff
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