Another Day, Another Blackface Incident At A Footy Club’s Mad Monday Event

Here we go again.

A Tasmanian amateur footy player shared an image of him and two teammates in blackface during his team’s Mad Monday celebration, because this is still a thing that keeps happening.

Taking to Facebook, Penguins FC player Beau Grundy recently shared the shot of him dressed as Sydney Swans star Aliir Aliir, complete with blackface paint. The image reportedly showed him flanked by teammates Mitch Stanley and Matt Chamberlain, dressed as the Williams sisters, while also wearing blackface.

via Facebook

The photo was posted to a popular Mad Monday Facebook group, but is no longer visible on the page. It is currently unclear if the image was removed by Grundy or by the page’s owners.

The image has since been deleted from Grundy’s profile.

News of the photo has prompted the same kind of reactions we’ve come to expect from those who are exhausted by the fact people still use black paint to impersonate black people, despite the well-established knowledge it is inextricably tied to harmful and racist representations of black people.

https://twitter.com/Utopiana/status/1042215126919593986

https://twitter.com/EmVersion7/status/1042205662862696448

https://twitter.com/MarkGottliebFOX/status/1042207580280381440

The incident is one of many, many blackface incidents recorded in Australia in recent years, including this one, this one, this one, and thiiis one. 

It also comes after repeated assertions that it’s not bloody on from Indigenous Australians.

PEDESTRIAN.TV has contacted Penguins FC for comment.

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