AFL veteran player and Carlton forward Eddie Betts has spoken out for the first time about racist comments made by Adelaide Crows player Taylor Walker, saying his former teammate “needs to learn” from the incident.
required to donate $20,000 to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program and apologise to the Indigenous players at the Crows and again to the entire playing group, as well as undertake an education program.
“He needs to learn from this. He needs to own it. And he needs to work towards educating himself to be anti-racist, educating people around him, calling people out on racism when he hears it. Doing that is the only way we’re all going to move forward on this,” Betts said. “And when it comes to racism, we’re not moving forward – we’re going backwards. The sad thing is that I’m used to it. That’s the sad thing. We as Aboriginal people are used to it. And we keep fighting, but it’s hard.”
Betts has agreed to publish several racist social media posts that had targeted him in the past fortnight, saying they had caught his attention due to the number of times each post was shared and commented upon. Among the slurs are the words “half-cast c--n,” a “black c--t” and a “true paint sniffing a---”“I need people to understand this is what we go through. This is what Aboriginal people deal with in our everyday lives.
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