The children of Australian sportsman Anthony Mundine, will likely one day tell their own kids about their grandfather. The fact that he was awarded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Person of the Year in 2000 will probably be included in their recounts, because kids usually see the best in their parents, no matter how controversial that person might be to society.
But of course, that’s not what most of Australia will remember Anthony Mundine for.
The boxer, who’s been appearing on our screens on Network Ten’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, announced on Wednesday night that he’s prematurely leaving the show. “I miss my family and feel like I have accomplished everything I wanted to do,” he wrote on Facebook, in a rare reference to his personal life.
The former NRL player has always been controversial.
He’s been vocal about his positions on everything from 9/11 – “America’s brought it upon themselves”, to homosexuality – “it’s not in our culture”, and domestic violence – “for women who might disobey, it’s recommended to admonish them, leave them alone in their sleeping places and then beat them.”
His opinions have seen him widely criticised in the media, and by the general public, overshadowing his sporting achievements. This of course makes him a perfect contestant in an unscripted reality TV show, where this week he openly discussed his belief that women shouldn’t wear skirts that come above their knees.
“You don’t want other men having prerogative thoughts about your girl or your daughter,” he said, uncharacteristically mentioning his role as a dad.
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The fact is that what he says and does reinforces that he is not what you’d term a good guy. He wasn’t the only one in there that has kids and missed them, what he did was show them when you aren’t getting things your way, you can just walk out. Sounds like this is the norm in his life. No it doesn’t matter he has different kids to different women but for someone that has attempted to take the moral high ground in there, it just reinforces that he’s a hypocrite. This is the point.
Something tells me that if Mundine were a white Christian instead of an Indigenous Muslim, MM would have zero problem with bringing his children into this. Nobody is attacking his children! People are attacking the blatant hypocrisy of a man who claims to have some moral high ground and tries to dictate the way others should live, while unapologetically doing the exact opposite in his own private life. This is the case whether the person is Donald Trump or Anthony Mundine; It's hypocrisy and people are going to call it out.
Hes spoken sbout pologymy in islam. Its actually possible that these are women that hes 'married' to.