ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys needs to stand up and honour promises made to Indigenous players in December 2019.
In December 2019, some of the NRL’s leading Indigenous players flew in from all corners of the country to attend a meeting at Sydney Airport.
V’landys must now deliver on the promises made almost four years ago and ban Rod Churchill from presenting the medal struck in his late father’s honour on grand final day.The NRL should follow the lead of the AFL with the Norm Smith Medal, and ask past recipients to hand over the Clive Churchill Medal instead.to Souths chairman Nick Pappas in May – that Churchill is accused of disseminating to a wider audience last week – means he can no longer do the job.
Imagine the embarrassment for the NRL if an Indigenous player wins the award in the foreseeable future and refuses to accept the medal out of solidarity with Mitchell. I can’t imagine many players accepting the medal from Churchill after the grand final on October 2. So let’s be clear: not only did Churchill send his text around to a broader audience, but he turbocharged it with a second little kidney punch about Mitchell’s character for good measure.
Churchill’s poisonous message to Pappas fed into the well-worn belief that black athletes should be seen and not heard.Similar arguments were made around State of Origin in 2019 when Indigenous players were asked by reporters if they’d sing the national anthem and, when they didn’t, were ridiculously blamed for the Blues’ loss in game one.
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