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Hawthorn star Shaun Burgoyne has blasted Anthony Mundine for his racial attack on Daniel Geale
Jamie Pandaram News Limited Network
October 19, 2012 9:27AM
Mundine questions Daniel Geale's heritageAnthony Mundine questions Daniel Geale's heritage, saying if he was really indigenous he should be helping his community more.(3:31 / 16.0MB)
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ABORIGINAL footballer and Hawthorn star Shaun Burgoyne has slammed Anthony Mundine for his racial attack on Daniel Geale labelling his comments "disgraceful".
On Twitter today, Burgoyne tweeted: "Anthony Mundine's comments about Geale's heritage, wife & kids were disgraceful."
Yesterday, at a press conference in Sydney announcing their rematch, Mundine questioned Geale's Aboriginal heritage.
"You people don't realise how resilient I am, I see what you're trying to do, the media, the white press ... you want me to be the bad boy, I'll be the bad boy," Mundine said.
"I thought they wiped all Aborigines from Tasmania out, that's all I know.
"I don't see him representing us black people, or coloured people. I don't see him out in the communities doing what I do with people ... he got a white woman, white kids."
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There was awkward silence.
Mundine probably wished he could put the words back in his mouth but like the 9/11 comments, they floated into the atmosphere and sat firmly in the shelf marked "Ludicrous Ravings From The Mouth".
Having a white partner has nothing to do with Geale's heritage - Mundine overstepped the line.
Geale said: "I've shown the Aboriginal flag on my trunks for a lot of my fights, I am very proud of my heritage from down in Tasmania.
"It's stupid what he says, but that's the role he plays and that's why most people these days, when he starts off with his rants, they switch off. I know I switch off.
"A lot of people wanted me to take this fight because they're sick of him, they want his career to be finished and they want him to stop saying stupid things."
Underlying all of this is that Mundine and the press realise Geale will not help sell this fight with his words - he dislikes the stinging verbal jousts that so often publicise a big fight.
So Mundine played his bad boy role, in front of a theatre that wanted to walk out, but who will return in three months to see words become action.
Jamie Pandaram News Limited Network
October 19, 2012 9:27AM
Mundine questions Daniel Geale's heritageAnthony Mundine questions Daniel Geale's heritage, saying if he was really indigenous he should be helping his community more.(3:31 / 16.0MB)
Video Quality 3GWi-Fi
ABORIGINAL footballer and Hawthorn star Shaun Burgoyne has slammed Anthony Mundine for his racial attack on Daniel Geale labelling his comments "disgraceful".
On Twitter today, Burgoyne tweeted: "Anthony Mundine's comments about Geale's heritage, wife & kids were disgraceful."
Yesterday, at a press conference in Sydney announcing their rematch, Mundine questioned Geale's Aboriginal heritage.
"You people don't realise how resilient I am, I see what you're trying to do, the media, the white press ... you want me to be the bad boy, I'll be the bad boy," Mundine said.
"I thought they wiped all Aborigines from Tasmania out, that's all I know.
"I don't see him representing us black people, or coloured people. I don't see him out in the communities doing what I do with people ... he got a white woman, white kids."
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There was awkward silence.
Mundine probably wished he could put the words back in his mouth but like the 9/11 comments, they floated into the atmosphere and sat firmly in the shelf marked "Ludicrous Ravings From The Mouth".
Having a white partner has nothing to do with Geale's heritage - Mundine overstepped the line.
Geale said: "I've shown the Aboriginal flag on my trunks for a lot of my fights, I am very proud of my heritage from down in Tasmania.
"It's stupid what he says, but that's the role he plays and that's why most people these days, when he starts off with his rants, they switch off. I know I switch off.
"A lot of people wanted me to take this fight because they're sick of him, they want his career to be finished and they want him to stop saying stupid things."
Underlying all of this is that Mundine and the press realise Geale will not help sell this fight with his words - he dislikes the stinging verbal jousts that so often publicise a big fight.
So Mundine played his bad boy role, in front of a theatre that wanted to walk out, but who will return in three months to see words become action.
