Irrespective of intent, it is about impact and the ticking time bomb of Black excellence in the purview of the white gaze
over the weekend. It’s as much of a travesty as it is a tragedy, but it is uniquely Australian.
But this isn’t about Franklin, it’s about the ticking time bomb of Black excellence in the purview of the white gaze. No matter how great a player is or how much joy they bring to the masses, there will forever be a target on a Black player’s back and a willing audience ready to zero in.AFL It’s about the AFL’s indifference and neglect. For years, they’ve sat on the fence instead of courting crowd behaviour and dragged their feet on stamping out racial abuse within the game. We saw it during the Goodes saga. The league’s historical inaction has only oxygenated an already raging fire.
On Monday night’s Footy Classified, Matthew Lloyd went into bat for booing, saying that “we have to be careful we’re not getting that soft as a society”. Using Lloyd’s rationale, toughness resides with the faceless and nameless, cowards who use their peers as camouflage, whileLloyd’s comments also reveal the static and antique mindset that he and many past players hold. Because his generation was subjected to abuse, the belief is that every generation after them should be too.
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