Heritier Lumumba is suing Collingwood and the AFL over racist abuse he was allegedly subjected to during his playing days, claiming he suffered trauma, humiliation, distress and loss of enjoyment.This year Lumumba alleged a lack of anti-racism policies allowed a culture of discrimination at the club and said some teammates had called him "chimp"
"[Collingwood] failed to take any or any sufficient steps to provide and maintain a safe working environment, including by protecting the plaintiff from racial abuse or racially offensive conduct. The documents also claimed that the AFL owed a duty to Mr Lumumba to take "reasonable steps to prevent players subjecting other players to racial abuse and racially-offensive conduct, and to impose sanctions on players who breached those rules".
The court documents set out that Mr Lumumba is seeking damages, exemplary damages, interest, costs and "such further orders as the court considers just".
Sid he speak up about it while he was there? to give anyone a opportunity to help and do something about it?
What a joke. Get over yourself harryO!
Looking forward to the ambulance chasers getting the umpires anti abuse claim up and running
Remember when Waleed and pjhelliar defended the CollingwoodFC against these allegations? theprojecttv
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