{"id":19233,"date":"2020-06-12T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/chris-lilleys-jonah-is-not-from-tonga-i-am-its-time-to-dismantle-racist-brownface-stereotypes"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:50:35","slug":"chris-lilleys-jonah-is-not-from-tonga-i-am-its-time-to-dismantle-racist-brownface-stereotypes-seini-f-taumoepeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19233","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lilley&#8217;s Jonah is not from Tonga, I am. It&#8217;s time to dismantle racist brownface stereotypes |  Seini F Taumoepeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix was right to pull Lilley\u2019s shows. We have no need for him to whitesplain Tongan people for entertainment<\/p>\n<p>When I first watched Summer Heights High, seeing the character of Jonah \u2013 a lazy, dumb, breakdancing, Tongan teenager \u2013 I was mortified and struck dumb by the fact that in 2007 brownface was allowed on Australian TV.<\/p>\n<p>This week it was revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jun\/11\/four-chris-lilley-shows-removed-from-netflix-australia-library\">Netflix had quietly pulled four of Chris Lilley\u2019s television shows<\/a>, specifically those that featured Lilley in black- or brownface portraying Tongan schoolboy Jonah Takalua and African American rapper S.mouse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/chris-lilleys-jonah-is-not-from-tonga-i-am-its-time-to-dismantle-racist-brownface-stereotypes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix was right to pull Lilley\u2019s shows. We have no need for him to whitesplain Tongan people for entertainmentWhen I first watched Summer Heights High, seeing the character of Jonah \u2013 a lazy, dumb, breakdancing, Tongan teenager \u2013 I was mortified and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,519,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-television-radio","category-tonga","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}