Sol Trujillo, ex-Telstra boss, this week has come out to say that he found Australia racist and backwards. Yes, this is the same Tesltra CEO who had no problem taking $31 million of our ‘backwards’ money in his four year stint in the position. OK sure, it’s the crappy Aussie dollar that’s worth a piddly $24 million in the mighty US of A.
Earlier this week, in an interview with a BBC reporter in the UK, Sol spoke about how Australia is a racist country that felt as if he had stepped back in time during his post as Telstra’s CEO. Listen to the clip here. What came as even more of a shock (or maybe it shouldn’t have), was the BBC reporter feeding the racist comments! One comment that stands out is the reporter claiming that in the Australian newspapers it was always pointed out that Sol had a Hispanic background, and that in Britain or America “…it would have been neither here nor there”. This stood out to me, as the same day this clip was released in Australia, America announced the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee. Yes, all the stories seemed to focus a lot on race when it came to making this announcement. If America is so forward and advanced, then why hasn’t there been a Hispanic Supreme Court nominee before? For something that is neither here nor there, race was mentioned by both American and British media.

Now I’m not here claiming that Australia is perfect (even though it’s damn close), or that racism doesn’t exist here. An article in the SMH today discusses a few things Australia shouldn’t be proud of, but do America and Britain not have similar issues to be ashamed of. It was just over a week ago that yet another police video was released in America of an African-American man being beaten while unconscious after a police chase (watch the clip below or here). This lead to 5 police officers being fired and a mayor almost in tears after realising that racism is still prevalent in America.

Police Beating Caught On Video – 5 Cops Fired In Alabama

Oh, and lets not forget about Britain. Surely racism is a thing of the past in Britain, didn’t they get rid of all their criminals centuries ago? What about the English First Party, proudly claiming “Racism: The mechanism by which English society is to be stripped of its capacity to defend itself against the genocide of multi-racialism”.

Again, I’m not here claiming that Australia is perfect. We have our issues as any other country does, and we’ll deal with these issues in our own time. What we don’t need is a former CEO who led one of our nations largest telecommunications company into a downwards spiral, tell the rest of the world we’re racist and backwards.

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