As a black man in a predominantly white nation, the Sydney Swans defender wants change and is prepared to help drive it, using his standing as a professional footballer in a sports-mad country | wutube SMHsport
A few months ago, before Australia went into lockdown, Aliir Aliir was out with a friend in Brisbane when he walked into a luxury retail store to buy a wallet.
"We saw his reaction. We were looking at bags, a few others things, then went to the wallet section. As soon as I pulled out my card and paid his face changed. "Have a good day", this and that."Those are the kind of things black people go through. You ask any black person, they go through it." Born in a Kenyan refugee camp to South Sudanese parents, Aliir has also been vilified on the field in junior football. The notion of "African gangs" being a "major law and order problem", pushed by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, has also affected Aliir.
What justification is there for a white policeman kneeling on the neck of handcuffed black man, outnumbered four to one, who is effectively pleading for his life?
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