Patty Mills has backed Collingwood ruckman Mason Cox for calling out a racist online attack against teammate Travis Varcoe. 9WWOS AFL
"Cannot comprehend how a human being could say this about another person. Hope we can find who he is ..."Collingwood, recently under scrutiny over its attitude towards racism after claims from former player Heritier Lumumba that discrimination was routinely ignored, slammed the racist abuse against Varcoe in a statement on Saturday. The slur directed at Varcoe - 'chimp' - is what Lumumba says he was nicknamed while at the Pies.
Offensive posts or comments in the past have resulted in the suspension or cancellation of memberships and an insistence on education and mediation before memberships can be reinstated.
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