Mal Brown labels indigenous players cannibals.

[Media Park]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/107 ... ace-furore

In a bit of hot water...

[dedja]

The political righteous will have their usual bitch and moan ... FFS.

[Drop Bear]

The political righteous will have their usual bitch and moan ... FFS.

Exactly.
Who gives a shit what an old dinosaur says in a private function.

[Rik E Boy]

The political righteous will have their usual bitch and moan ... FFS.

Exactly.
Who gives a **** what an old dinosaur says in a private function.

Umm, Indigenous people maybe?

regards,

REB

[Zorro]

The political righteous will have their usual bitch and moan ... FFS.

Exactly.
Who gives a **** what an old dinosaur says in a private function.

Umm, Indigenous people maybe?

regards,

REB

and the media contingent that were there...

[Rik E Boy]

Cracking jokes about not being able to see Black people in the dark might have been funny in 1975 but most of us have moved on. Dinosaur is right. The timing is terrible as well just one week after the Andrew Johns gaffe. Micheal Long said earlier this week that the AFL did not possess the high moral ground on this issue and sadly dumba55 Brown has proved him right.

regards,

REB

[Dogwatcher]

The political righteous will have their usual bitch and moan ... FFS.

It is a pretty ordinary statement.

[Booney]

So if you call an indigenous person a cannibal and there isn't a reporter there to hear it, it's ok?

It is the likes of dimwits of Mal Brown and Andrew Johns mentality that continue to think that a "joke" is ok. You know the old saying, when a joke is about someone it is only funny if that person thinks so?

Mal Brown is a dinosaur and his way of thinking should be extinct too.

Everything he has coming in the next few days, weeks is deserved.

[Drop Bear]

Splashing it all over the news is just a prime example of media generating fear and hatred.
It's got nothing to do with the AFL. It's the dickhead who said it.
Can't we all just get along

[Booney]

Splashing it all over the news is just a prime example of media generating fear and hatred.
It's got nothing to do with the AFL. It's the dickhead who said it.
Can't we all just get along

Agreed, but as an Australian Rules Football identity the mud will stick to all assosciated people and organisations.

[Wedgie]

I hope a reporter never stands with me and the Grog Squad at the footy!

[dedja]

Look, the fella's a tool so why give the issue any oxygen?

As a descendant of southern Europeans who has been mistaken many times for an indigenous Aussie and who has had a few choice nicknames in the past, his comments personally don't worry or upset me because they were jokes (yes, granted in poor taste). He's just stupid enough to say them in public, especially at a luncheon where they will be reported in the media.

[Dogwatcher]

I hope a reporter never stands with me and the Grog Squad at the footy!

Too late

[Zorro]

I hope a reporter never stands with me and the Grog Squad at the footy!

Too late

We could run a competition on what the journo's headline would be.....

[Dogwatcher]

The newspaper could be called The Grogalog

[overloaded]

what a storm in a tea cup. say what you want Mal. It was a PRIVATE function.

[dedja]

and here's the apology ...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/na ... 5880943132

EX-RICHMOND player Mal Brown has admitted to being a "d...head" for joking that Aboriginal footballers were cannibals in what he described as a light-hearted address at a football lunch.

Well he got that bit right.

[Dogwatcher]

what a storm in a tea cup. say what you want Mal. It was a PRIVATE function.

Yeah, you're right, Mal should be allowed to make racist comments in private in front of 100 or more people if he likes.

[Adelaide Hawk]

I couldn't believe what I saw on the News tonight. A comment from none other than Syd Jackson condemning Brown for his comments.

Who's Syd Jackson you may ask? He was the Carlton aboriginal footballer who claimed racial comments as the reason he belted Collingwood's Lee Adamson in the 1970 2nd Semi. He got off and played in the Grand Final.

Twenty years later he admitted he lied. Of all the aboriginal players they could have got a comment from they went to a cheat and a liar who who racism to benefit himself.

[fish]

what a storm in a tea cup. say what you want Mal. It was a PRIVATE function.

A racist comment is a racist comment whether it is said in public or private, to one person or 100 people.