Published 6 November 200910 November 2009 · Main Posts Dishonourable Discharge Maxine Beneba Clarke fucking arabs man / are they crazy yeah / okay we know hasan wz born in virginia & american bred bt the real truth wz there in his blood: jordanian & before you say racist lemme just say september eleven before you jump on that lemme throw at you seven seven mean anything to you how long before we learn to lock the fucking gates & save our children close the fucking borders send the brown skins back freeloading boaters or even if they’re fucking born here who cares twelve real americans died at last count & he injured thirty one they were sending him to counsel soldiers to shoot his mother / the army wz shipping malik to afghanistan probably / when he couldn/t deal with this an american born soldier became un-american they were sending him to ease the guilt of those who killed his sisters / the army wz shipping him to afghanistan & probably his objections just didn’t go down too well today / malik nadal hasan dishonourably discharged himself the army spilled american blood bt somehow the news on cnn is a desperate brown man army trained / born & bred who no longer is the slightest bit american (crossposted @ slamup.blogspot.com) Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.