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Basketball champion and Indigenous mentor Patty Mills has found ‘a way to live with impact and purpose’ – ABC News
Canberra prides itself on being a diverse and welcoming city, but Australian basketballer Patty Mills says he experienced “constant” racism. He says he would not be where he is today if it was not for his mother’s advice.
Patty Mills remembers asking the question. Vividly, despite it happening more than 25 years ago.
“Mum, does that mean that they’re going to come and take me away too?”
He was “five or six” years old, and Mills was hearing his mother’s story. She was a member of the Stolen Generations.
Last month, as the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum, Mills, an NBA star and a proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man, gave an emotional account of growing up black in Australia.
“I remember …
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