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Racism in Australia is a brutal reality for Asians.  Things might be far better now but 20-30 years ago Usman or folks like him must have encountered it in a greater degree.

 

I remember there were race based attacks on Indian students almost regularly some 15-20 years ago.

Bollywood even made a movie on it such was the impact those incidents made in India :bandit:

 

 

Edited by Lone Wolf
Posted
1 hour ago, putrevus said:

Ranted,utterly disgusting word to use for a player who is telling about his experience.

that is a racist twitter account, not a genuine news site. not sure why that account is getting promoted here

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One should always be thankful for the opportunities. Is he blind to the fact that only reason got an extended run was due to aussies not being able to find some better. 

Posted
1 hour ago, jf1gp_1 said:

One should always be thankful for the opportunities. Is he blind to the fact that only reason got an extended run was due to aussies not being able to find some better. 

While true, what has that anything to do with the racism he faced? Has he ever said he is not thankful for the opportunities he got?

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49 minutes ago, New guy said:

While true, what has that anything to do with the racism he faced? Has he ever said he is not thankful for the opportunities he got?

 

How is his commitment being questioned when he was attending F1 or playing golf racism? Indian players or other English players have got the heat when they are out of form.

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42 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

How is his commitment being questioned when he was attending F1 or playing golf racism? Indian players or other English players have got the heat when they are out of form.

Because other Aussie players were also attending F1 at the time but only Khawaja got questioned

Posted
31 minutes ago, Serpico said:

Because other Aussie players were also attending F1 at the time but only Khawaja got questioned


Because he was from different race or because he wasn’t doing well.

Posted
2 hours ago, Trichromatic said:

 

How is his commitment being questioned when he was attending F1 or playing golf racism? Indian players or other English players have got the heat when they are out of form.

Dude this information is literally there and khwaja has explained. Other Aussie white players were also at F1 but only Khwaja got questioned. 

 

Sigh, whats with Indians and denying the existence of racism. I have never seen any other non white cultures ever bend so much backwards to justify and deny racism and defend the racists. 

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1 hour ago, Trichromatic said:


Because he was from different race or because he wasn’t doing well.

Were all other players who attended all doing well? 

 

Again nothing bowls me over more than Indians defending and making excuses for racism. This is exactly the kind of excuses every white racist uses. It's an incredible inferiority complex and slave mentality, IMO. 

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5 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

One should always be thankful for the opportunities. Is he blind to the fact that only reason got an extended run was due to aussies not being able to find some better. 

Why should he be thankful, he earned those opportunities with his talent.If others were not good enough how is it his fault.

 

He never said he is not thankful , all he said was he was discriminated due to his color of his skin.

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34 minutes ago, New guy said:

Dude this information is literally there and khwaja has explained. Other Aussie white players were also at F1 but only Khwaja got questioned. 

 

Sigh, whats with Indians and denying the existence of racism. I have never seen any other non white cultures ever bend so much backwards to justify and deny racism and defend the racists. 

That is because India is filled with uncle toms.

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1 hour ago, putrevus said:

Why should he be thankful, he earned those opportunities with his talent.If others were not good enough how is it his fault.

 

He never said he is not thankful , all he said was he was discriminated due to his color of his skin.

 He was born in Pakistan so has to be thankful to Australia 

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31 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

 He was born in Pakistan so has to be thankful to Australia 

So what, he went to Australia like all many others before him got its citizenship.There is nothing to be thankful there.

 

He is first generation immigrant unlike other players in his team who might be in their nth generation.

 

Australia is a colony of immigrants .Just number of generations varies.

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