MUNDINE SLAMS NATIONAL ANTHEM
OUTSPOKEN boxer Anthony Mundine will sit down when the national anthem is played before his fight against Jeff Horn next month.
Mundine reaffirmed his belief that Australia’s anthem is a “white supremacist song” and, in a move similar to NFL and basketball players in the US, will silently protest against it while it’s sung at a national sporting event. Mundine will fight Horn on November 30 at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.
“If I had it my way, the anthem would not be sung, they’d play Yothu Yindi’s Treaty. Give us something. What are you going to give our people?” Mundine said. “You want to play a white supremacist song, but you’re not going to play something for us. And you condition us to think that it’s our song, our way – that ain’t our way, that’s your way to separate and say you’re superior.
“That song was a theme song for the White Australia policy, which was that no one was allowed into the country except white fellas.
“They brought Asians and Polynesians here to work, but they governed them, but black fellas were considered fauna, not even considered human beings, but animals.”
Mundine said Advance Australia Fair referred to ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people.
“Advance Australia Fair means ‘ Advance Australia white’, that’s the fair, but they make it out like it means a fair go,” Mundine said.
Asked if he would instead kneel like some NFL players, Mundine replied: “No I’m not going to kneel, I’ll get a chair and sit down.
“Why would I kneel, that takes energy, I’ll just get a chair and relax.”