Dawn defends 'racist' Kyrgios comments
Olympic legend Dawn Fraser has defended her comments about Nick Kyrgios after his Wimbledon loss, stating that she is not a “racist person”.
Fraser was questioned on Channel 9’s morning show Today about Kyrgios’ apparent ‘tanking’ of the game and “bad manners” on the court. She said “It’s absolutely disgusting. I am so shocked to think that he went out there to play and he tanked … that’s terrible.”
Fraser went on to suggest that both Australian-born Kyrgios and fellow tennis player Bernard Tomic, who immigrated from Germany to Australia at the age of three, “should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country” and “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.”
Fraser received backlash on social media for her comments, with some people calling her comments “horrifically racist”, “deeply hypocritical” and “unacceptable”.
Do you think Dawn’s comments were out of line? Did she have a right to comment on Kyrgios' family and ethic background while discussing his attitude on the court?
Just which "race" was Dawn denigrating? - she told these young hoons to go back to the country their folks came from - they might just as easily have come from the U.S., England etc, as I noted earlier. Reference to any other country is now "racist" is it?