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It is boring and predictable that some people are more offended by a troll telling Childress to go back to the states, than they are by Childress using a MMA move in a basketball game.

He did what he did, still no one should be called anything. We all came into this world the same way and we should get treat that way. What he did has trigged those remarks, like we have said, no player deserves to get k'od the way he did, that was insane, bit higher he could ove killed him, if he fell the wrong way. Like the one punch law, he provoked me, that dont matter! That was a dog act and u can't get lower than what he did! Cheap shot! But yea, never liked racism or any other form of taking the piss on some one!

He could have killed him????? LOL

What a joke.

Childress is lucky neither of the following 2 scenarios played out, otherwise we'd indeed be talking very differently about the whole event:

1. Wagstaff could've easily been concussed, or suffered a neck or head injury

2. The Cats players might not have handled it in such a level headed fashion, and a melee could have erupted

Childress is gutless and those attacking him in a racist manner are no better!

ahhhh the ole tu quoque logical fallacy.....

"what he did triggered those remarks" pleeease..

Childress's action doesn't justify the racist abuse, no matter what hypothetical injuries he may have received.


What if Childress had been to west Africa and infected Wagstaff with ebola on the hit??
What if Childress hit him so hard he lost his sense of touch and now he can't cuddle kittens?????

Lets deal with what happened:

The hit was totally uncalled for and should be judged on that context alone, regardless of provocation.

The abuse is out of line REGARDLESS of what Childress's did.

To be honest I hope all of the Aussies in the NBL give him the treatment now! Play him hard! Show them us Aussies play tough and wont take shit from an arrogant American.

Many of the comments he has been copping on social media are definitely way beyond any level of acceptability.

To be honest the couple of tweets listed by @king Podge above aren't racist, that said not sure there is any need for it as he'll be reminded of the hit everytime he steps onto the floor by local fans in every venue.

No action gives the right for anyone to say the things they have to childress. What he did was dirty and unacceptable no doubt but for people to say if he'd did this or that it could've been alot worse. Well that's obvious, but he didn't. If last year Gary Ervin accidently got Goulding 10 inches higher and Goulding already had a bad heart and then fell onto a part of the court where someone had previously smashed a glass then he could've died of a heart attack and could've sliced his hand off trying to break his fall. But luckily that didn't happen.

Tiger Watcher there at a lot of tweets that are and have been deleted. But you don't have to be racist to be offensive, unless some were referring to Childress as being a bundle of sticks or a meatball made of offal...


Anon: Racism exists in Australia, but if you think Australia 'is the most racist' then you haven't spend anytime outside of Australia......

no matter how much of a dick Childress was committing that foul on Wagstaff he doesn't deserve this treatment.

one single act doesn't define a person.

Did anyone think any less of Phil Jones after he punched Shaun Redhage?
I certainly didn't ;)

Those comments are disgusting, no one deserves to be spoken to like that regardless of who they are or what they've done. Whoever is saying that stuff is an embarrassment.

And if it had been the other way round and Wagstaff had hit Childress, would his skin colour or birthplace been an issue? Pathetic. Childress stuffed up, apologised, will get punished. That's it.

"an arrogant American"

I haven't met the guy or seen more than a couple of his NBL games, but he doesn't seem particularly arrogant. In fact, he's probably seemed quite unselfish on court from what I've seen.

No doubting his hit on Wagstaff was way over the top and should mean he misses at least a game.

Sydney should have announced an internal club suspension for his on court behaviour.

Where can I read these racist comments? Was it just one troll on Twitter?

Interesting how people hide behind their tweets, wonder if they were to actually come face to face with Childress would they repeat their words? Highly doubt it.

keyboard warriors

I have little interest in knowing what was said, I don't have twitter and I am not buying into the alleged attack on Childress, I have no time for racism and in any case I hope he understands Aussies are not like that (I'm sure he does).

I do have an issue however with anon poster #500249, who I am sure has also posted other comments in this thread.

Mate, whoever you are, no need to mention your skin colour or the fact you are anglo (whatever that means to you), because if you had your eyes open and ears clear while you were all over the world as you put it, you might have noticed something?

Australia is one of the most respectful, open and accommodating, peaceful, easy going and tolerant cultures going around.

We don't have some of the most livable cities in the world for no reason and maybe you have not been in our schools lately, to observe how kids from many different cultures and races get along without batting an eye lid...

Maybe it's, dare I say it, maybe it's you that has the issues mate, white anglo BSA (give me a break)!

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It is very unfortunate that Race had to come into it.

I would never see it as a coloured person hurting a non-coloured or differently coloured person.

Its just one person committing a unsportsmanlike act.

Shame on those people who want to turn everything Black Vs White.

I just saw one basketball player clobber another basketball player.....why the hell are we talking bout colours here.

Thanks anon^, great feedback there mate. I take it you are assuming the twitter account was in fact owned and operated by an Aussie, not someone from another country and you have proof of this do you?

I agree @Train, it should be about the sport and nothing more, but this thread is about some racial attack on twitter, unfortunately...

"It clearly established the racists attacks occurred on Twitter. "

So far I have seen nothing to suggest it was more than one person, but it is still being labelled as "racist attacks" (plural). Ok, the person technically posted multiple tweets, but it was still just the one person. Why are stupid comments by one hot-headed keyboard warrior newsworthy? Or even being used to evidence the attitudes of a whole culture? To use one person's actions/comments to draw such a conclusion would be as idiotic as using the Childress incident as evidence that African-Americans are excessively hot-headed and violent.

The news article has the posts by this user (with swear words and that racially sensitive word blacked out) and he was clearly fired up and trying to insult. So what? It is one person being a d-head. If we publicised every d-heads idiotic comments on Twitter we would be flooded with Twitter news every second. Update the headlines to "racist Twitter attack" and it seems more accurate IMO.

True @rjd, one person's racial slur or one person's stupid act shouldn't implicate that a whole country is full of racists (such as it is being implicated by uneducated and opinionated anon' posters on here), Boti has also shown common sense and restraint.

History shows that racism was rife in the past, all over the world. The internet has changed the media landscape, we now need to move forward from this and learn that social media is a powerful tool that shouldn't be miss used.

Like Boti, I have first hand experience of racism and have grown up in different times, these days we don't accept things like we did 10-20+ years ago. I don't accept that today's average Aussie is considered a racist, but of course they are still out there!

in australia racist remarks are illegal.
aust govt.,attorney general keen to change that.
'everyone has the right to be a bigot.' he told us

Anon'974...

I sincerely hope the next time you play basketball (if you can play), that someone 'faces up for the block' the same way on you.