As racist propaganda including stickers reportedly calling SA‘s alleged neo-Nazi leader a ‘political prisoner’ pop up his neighbourhood an indigenous artist is making a stand.
As pro-neo-Nazi propaganda started popping up in his neighbourhood, indigenous artist Scott Rathman realised either he had to do something about it or racism would be allowed to fester.
The Semaphore local first noticed National Socialist Network stickers being stuck on poles and signs when on a walk near his home and reached a tipping point when he saw them near schools and in diverse communities.
“I just thought ‘what can I do’ in a way to make a statement but also say to these young people there’s plenty of people around here who are anti-racist,” Mr Rathman said.
“Racism is like a virus in that it’s something that spreads – it’s an issue that it’s too often forgotten about or not spoken about.
“For me growing up and being of Aboriginal background, I’ve experienced racism in school, the community and the workplace – we need to do a lot more to address it.”
Mr Rathman said just removing the stickers had the potential to allow their message to spread unaddressed.
He was not the first to notice them, however, with fellow Semaphore man Robert Stainsbury so incensed by the stickers he took to ripping them off on two occasions in the past six months.
Read the article by Brinley Duggan in The Advertiser.