{"id":57632,"date":"2021-08-11T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=57632"},"modified":"2021-08-11T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:24:54","slug":"eddie-betts-has-spoken-out-following-the-tex-walker-racism-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/eddie-betts-has-spoken-out-following-the-tex-walker-racism-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Betts Has Spoken Out Following The Tex Walker Racism Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFL star Eddie Betts says he is \u201csick of fighting\u201d racism in an emotional TV appearance following the <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/david-penberthy-reports-the-latest-on-the-taylor-walker-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six-week banning of his former Crows teammate Taylor Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-10-august-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 10 August 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Betts told Fox Footy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been hard to be honest and really tough to deal with\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with this my whole life, my mother has, my father has and it\u2019s tiring. It hurts. It\u2019s draining. It actually really hurts to be honest\u2026 I just need everyone to go on a journey to start educating and start those conversations.<\/p><p>\u201cTaylor Walker\u2019s going on his journey at the moment and I know what kind of person Taylor is and he\u2019ll hold to his word. He\u2019ll do this with 110 per cent \u2013 it just hurts\u2026 it just keeps happening\u2026 I\u2019m sick of fighting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WATCH HERE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;There is no room for racism in Australia.&quot; <br><br>Eddie Betts speaks after Taylor Walker incident.<br><br>Tune into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL360?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL360<\/a> on Ch 502 or stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kayosports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kayosports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c4zhXPb5vS\">pic.twitter.com\/c4zhXPb5vS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fox Footy (@FOXFOOTY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXFOOTY\/status\/1425040319003824133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F396775905113660%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL star Eddie Betts says he is \u201csick of fighting\u201d racism in an emotional TV appearance following the six-week banning of his former Crows teammate Taylor Walker. Betts told Fox Footy: \u201cIt\u2019s been hard to be honest and really tough to deal with\u2026\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with this my whole life, my mother has, my father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,167],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-57632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Betts Has Spoken Out Following The Tex Walker Racism Incident - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/eddie-betts-has-spoken-out-following-the-tex-walker-racism-incident\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Betts Has Spoken Out Following The Tex Walker Racism Incident\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFL star Eddie Betts says he is \u201csick of fighting\u201d racism in an emotional TV appearance following the six-week banning of his former Crows teammate Taylor Walker. 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