Internationally, sporting codes have been making statements of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, including supporting player protests. It was an explicit step in the wrong direction, away from the global Black Lives Matter movement, alternatively trivialised as that “other situation”. In this global anti-racist movement Indigenous peoples have really been left wanting by the nation and the games it plays. Protesters hold signs at a Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney in June 2020. Only in Australia could the culture they long insisted on eradicating be weaponised as a performance of care for Black lives in this moment.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2020 02:25 UTC