In the 2012 post-season, Lumumba had travelled to Brazil again, seeking the counsel of his Jongueiro elders. "Things that happen inside the Westpac Centre stay inside the Westpac Centre and probably we've been too open in the past," McGuire told Fox Footy. Andrew Krakouer, Leon Davis, Chris Dawes, Chris Egan, Brent Macaffer and Shae McNamara have all registered public support. "Gone. In those early years, his escapes were the company of Melbourne's Afro-Brazilian community, and a pastime of which few at Collingwood were aware: he was a percussionist in two samba bands, forging deep connections with his culture. Your mates come first. "I understand the strength of belonging to the Bakongo people," Lumumba says. Theres a generation of young sportspeople who are no longer swimming in their lane, who are no longer willing to do all the heavy lifting on race. Hritier Lumumba reclaimed his name and found strength in African "The club is defensive and angry," Caroline Wilson wrote. And he commanded respect. Support, instead, flocked to the president. It wasn't always that way. In documents filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Mr Lumumba alleged the league and his former club had failed in their duty of care to provide players with a safe environment. "What makes you so special?". Seven months earlier, during the AFL's Indigenous round, a 13-year-old Collingwood supporter had labelled Sydney's Indigenous champion Adam Goodes an "ape", sparking a national furore that was exacerbated when McGuire made his immortally offensive joke, likening Goodes to King Kong. It was the moment Lumumba stopped playing peacemaker and called out Collingwood's culture of discrimination by confronting Magpies president Eddie McGuire, the man whose name still symbolises the Collingwood that Lumumba once loved. I know that if the Collingwood Football Club is to go to the next level as a football club, it must stand on the right side of history. Hritier Lumumba on Twitter Indeed, for years, every time Lumumba would air his grievances, my flinch reaction was always the same: Heritier, you need to let this go. Now he marched upright, a bandana shielding his face from the pandemic sweeping the planet, a Congolese flag draped over his shoulders. He is the first Brazilian-born player who played an AFL match.[2]. There's enough stress you have to deal with playing a game that requires so much of you physically. "Every roll call it was difficult for the teachers to pronounce my name. "I come from a powerful, matrifocal community in Rio de Janeiro, where our cultural tradition, known as Jongo, has been well preserved," Lumumba says. "We were being trained to give direct and immediate feedback to players and coaches around actions and behaviours that were in conflict with our values," Lumumba says. An investigation would in any case have required the cooperation of Lumumba and those who were at Collingwood in his time but have since left; Lumumba, among others, would not consent to an interview. But when Lumumba went there, you could sense the room raising a collective eyebrow. Former AFL player Heritier Lumumba has shared further recordings of himself in conversation with former coach Nathan Buckley. Now he was "angry", "disgruntled", "disaffected", "dramatic", "unhappy" and "high-maintenance". Following an indiscreet press conference "I get the impression that everyone thinks he's a basket case," the coach said at one point he was hailed by the football press for "a Buckley masterclass". In October 2014, following another torrent of attacks on his character in the press, Lumumba was officially traded to Melbourne. [15], Collingwood wanted to sit down with Lumumba to reconcile, but Lumumba refused until he received a full acknowledgement and apology over his treatment. But there are other stories emerging, and other voices making themselves heard. "LU-MUM-BA. Officially, the Pies cited a floating bone in Lumumba's ankle as the reason for his omission from the team. Lumumba had secured the fifth in what would end up eight consecutive top-10 finishes in the club best and fairest award, but he was still labelled "the poster boy for Collingwood's decline". Hritier Lumumba reclaimed his name and found strength in African history. Days earlier, the world had watched George Floyd take his last breaths. 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You could almost hear them snickering into their napkins: turn it up Harry, or whatever it is you call yourself now, this is the Copeland Trophy, not the United Nations. He had previously recounted experiences to club and league management. Lumumba says the second was the punishment he received once he challenged the club's apparent toxicity. I've spoken to some people and I've found different things, the nuances that I had no idea [about]. Former Collingwood player Hritier Lumumba used to be known as Harry O'Brien. Imbued with greater purpose and committed to finally drawing a line in the sand, he returned to Collingwood and began his most intense and transformative pre-season training regime yet. At Buckley's urging, Collingwood of 2012-13 operated under the Leading Teams model of organisational change, a key pillar of which is to "call out" bad behaviours. 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