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An Amazing Solo Performance by Guitarist/Singer Jon Gomm: "Everything"

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TedStriker9/24/2017 6:50:55 pm PDT

re: #206 HappyWarrior

He was there for them and they for him. Terrible how he was treated at home in Australia.

Well, given Australia’s long-running discrimination and institutional racism against its Aboriginal population and its abatement that parallels the same rough time frame as the civil rights movement here in America, it makes a odd bit of sense that Norman, for standing with and sympathizing with those damn uppity n***ers (or whatever the Australian pejorative would be), would suffer for it.

The real shame about it is that Norman continued to suffer for it pretty much till the day he died, long after official government policies and mainstream Australian society had changed to be more inclusive, because the Australian sports community apparently felt that he should.

Fuck bigoted morons everywhere…