“I’m human. We mess up”: Lisa Millar apologises over racism in sport

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News Breakfast presenter Lisa Millar has apologized for comments she made yesterday on ABC following tennis champ Nick Kyrgios being subjected to racist taunts at at the Stuttgart Open.

Kyrgios took to Instagram to complain about crowd comments which the ATP tournament said were unacceptable and would be investigated.

Yesterday when Tony Armstrong shook his head in frustration at racism in sport, Millar remarked, “There’s no room for racism, but I do wonder whether it’s good for him… (Ed: sentence unfinished)… like, there will be other people who will say ‘You’ve just got to ignore that. You’ve got to block that out.’”

But suggesting racist taunts should simply be ignored also drew fierce criticism on social media.

WTF is Lisa Millar @BreakfastNews on about? Has she no idea? Thats oblivious white privilege write large? She needs some real world internal @ABCaustralia professional development? #Racism most unacceptable of human evils. Always! #journalism #ethics pic.twitter.com/GsIFcy49cB

— Peter Clarke (@MediaActive) June 13, 2022

Earlier today she told ABC viewers, “Before we wentthis hour, I want to address something that I said yesterday that I regret. We were talking about Nick Kyrgios and the appalling and unacceptable behavior from the crowd during his match with Andy Murray.

“I didn’t intend to minimize the abuse that was directed to him. What I said and the clumsy way I said it was wrong. I’m human. We mess up. I madea mistake yesterday and I am sorry.No-one should have to deal withracist taunts and I don’t wantanyone to be in any doubt about howstrongly I feel about this. I’m a big Kyrgios fan. I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s got instore for us at Wimbledon.”

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