Craig Foster had urged Football Australia to strip Sam Kerr of the Matildas’ captaincy if the charges were proven, to make a strong stand against racism. But he has had a change of heart.
Foster issued a lengthy statement on Saturday explaining his 180-degree change in position, saying he had been mistaken in thinking any “discriminatory, demeaning or hostile” comments referencing any colour were a form of racism.
Foster on Thursday urged Football Australia to strip Kerr of the Matildas captaincy if the charges were proven, to make a strong stand against racism. But he has had a change of heart. “Does that equate to double standards when the same terms of phrases are used against marginalised groups, is the question,” Foster wrote.“The answer is no. Because the power differential and therefore impact are vastly and fundamentally different. Those of us who aren’t from a minority background cannot possibly know how it feels to be told that we don’t belong, don’t speak the language, don’t look right, to ‘go back where you came from’ or to have faced intergenerational racism.
Foster is uncomfortable that definitions of racism were being reversed at a time when First Nations people and people from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds were striving for equality in the workplace, media and politics.
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