ABSTRACT
Aboriginal storytelling has been around tens of thousands of years – far longer than Western culture. Part of Western governments' strategy is in declaring traditional Aboriginal cultures as not viable within a 21st century, disguising white supremacy and racism under the banner of neoliberalism. Aboriginal writing, storytelling, pedagogy within all its forms of knowledge production needs to be seen as standing equal, parallel and as an alternative to Western knowledge production, not as a sub-section or as an elective within a humanities or sociology degree, or as a form of contemporary literature. Social media allows youth the space to examine and present their world as they create it instantly in sharing counter-narratives that reflect their racial and social realities. For Aboriginal and black youth once marginalised, it empowers their voices in ways never before realised. In the United States, the achievement gap between white and black students has persisted over decades in spite of reform efforts.
