Mr Lumumba said it was an example of a deeper problem Australia has with truth-telling.
“I can t help but just see that the Collingwood Football Club is really a microcosm of the greater Australian narrative, which is the fact that there s an unpreparedness or inability or lack of desire to reconcile with its checkered, brutal past and that it has inflicted severe pain on individuals and communities and families, he told NITV News on Tuesday.
‘Standing on the right side of history’
Mr Lumumba has repeatedly called out the Collingwood Football Club for dismissing his complaints of racial abuse and discrimination experienced when he was a player at the club between 2005 and 2014.
Former Collingwood FC player, Heritier Lumumba, has described watching a press conference of club leaders responding to an unofficially released report into culture inside the organisation as, painful .
Mr Lumumba called out comments made on Monday by the club s president, Eddie McGuire, in response to the Do Better report, an independent review commissioned by Collingwood FC into its responses to incidents of racism and cultural safety in the workplace.
Going on the offensive in response to the contents of the report being made public, Mr McGuire described the revelations as a proud day . The report, led by UTS Jumbunna Institute s Larissa Behrendt, details a toxic culture within the club and the presence of systemic racism.