NSW Education Minister Prue Car has intervened after a parent complained about a song calling Captain James Cook a “white devil” being played at a public primary school in Sydney’s south., a song by Indigenous rapper and activist Birdz, has been played to students as they arrive at Ramsgate Public School for at least a week, an anonymous father told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Tuesday morning.
The father said he had to explain to his son that “complex things” had happened in Australia’s past after he had asked whether there was “something wrong with being white”. “Anything that creates any sort of division we can’t have in our schools,” she said. “Reading the lyrics, and listening to it, I can understand why parents are concerned.”
“ trying to warn Captain Cook: ‘You’re going the wrong way’,” Birdz said. “How would you feel, and what would you do, if you’re in that position where you know everything is going to be taken away from you? Your people and your family are under threat.”and describes himself as a proud Murri man with Badtjala, Juru, Scottish and Melanesian heritage.
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