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    Cronulla Beach by Jose Wendell Capili

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    In Sydney's Cronulla Beach in 2005, over 5,000 white Australians attacked people who looked Middle Eastern or Asian in response to earlier assaults. The next day, men of color sought revenge with baseball bats, smashing storefronts and windshields. The poet describes the landscape of Cronulla Beach, once home to Aboriginal people, now a place where thugs restrict the shades of other races to keep their own generation pure and sterile.

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    Cronulla Beach by Jose Wendell Capili

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    In Sydney's Cronulla Beach in 2005, over 5,000 white Australians attacked people who looked Middle Eastern or Asian in response to earlier assaults. The next day, men of color sought revenge with baseball bats, smashing storefronts and windshields. The poet describes the landscape of Cronulla Beach, once home to Aboriginal people, now a place where thugs restrict the shades of other races to keep their own generation pure and sterile.

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    In Sydney's Cronulla Beach in 2005, over 5,000 white Australians attacked people who looked Middle Eastern or Asian in response to earlier assaults. The next day, men of color sought revenge with baseball bats, smashing storefronts and windshields. The poet describes the landscape of Cronulla Beach, once home to Aboriginal people, now a place where thugs restrict the shades of other races to keep their own generation pure and sterile.

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    Cronulla Beach by Jose Wendell Capili

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    In Sydney's Cronulla Beach in 2005, over 5,000 white Australians attacked people who looked Middle Eastern or Asian in response to earlier assaults. The next day, men of color sought revenge with baseball bats, smashing storefronts and windshields. The poet describes the landscape of Cronulla Beach, once home to Aboriginal people, now a place where thugs restrict the shades of other races to keep their own generation pure and sterile.

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    Cronulla Beach

    By Jose Wendell P. Capilli


    In Sydney’s Cronulla Beach, more than 5,000 white Australians descended on the sands,
    attacking anybody who looked Middle Eastern or Asian. Revenge followed: Men of color
    rampaged through Cronulla with baseball bats, smashing storefronts and windshields. Early
    morning news, 12 December 2005.

    Blood surges rapidly


    Along Cronulla Beach.
    Armed with bats,
    White bodies are mad
    Replications of tents,
    Parasols and sunblinds
    Spreading all over
    What used to be kurranulla?
    Aboriginal landscapes,
    The place of pink seashells.
    There is no chieftain
    On the shore, no starfish
    Where dominion shatters.
    Not too far behind,
    Thugs and their hand
    Maids constrict exquisite
    Shades of perplexity
    To keep generations
    Pure and sterile.
    Spaces beneath vestiges
    Of hamlets from long ago
    Have become driftwood,
    Shells, cleavers of melting
    Pots and succession.
    They are swaying eerily
    Translucent as postcards
    Bereft of scintillating light
    In the heated-up weather.
    So racializing, this soap.

    —Jose Wendell P. Capili

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