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Please no @JessRowe. This gesture and your light-hearted comment about having had better days makes it very clear how little you understand the impact your actions have had on me and so many others. Racism and discrimination causes trauma, it kills, we can’t just 🤷🏻♀️ it off… 
…the hurt caused by racism, the way it infects so much of your life if you’ve experienced it, and the role it plays in silencing and excluding people is real. It’s not just a bad day to be shrugged off, it’s a constant that some of us can’t escape #RacismStopsWithMe
And no Chris U, this ain’t a violent attack - it is a series of tweets setting out the real violence in this story: racism
1/I have been a one eyed Collingwood supporter since I was a little kid. I have barracked for the Pies since I met Peter Daicos in 1978 at a Preston fish and chips shop when I was 5. But I haven’t been so blind as to not notice racism & racist remarks that have permeated the club
2/My support for Collingwood has brought ecstatic joy (the 1990/2010 Premierships wins) lots of heartache (every other losing GF) But throughout those highs and lows my time as a supporter has also been tinged with deep discomfort at too many games when I witnessed racist abuse
3/abuse hurled by Collingwood supporters towards opposition players and the racism directed at and experienced by Collingwood players too like my hero Peter Daicos and more recently Heritier Lumumba.
Racist remarks were rife in the 80s when I used to watch footy at Vic Park.
Racist remarks were rife in the 80s when I used to watch footy at Vic Park.
