What Eddie McGuire, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden tell us about the shifting global order

Eddie McGuire is not a name that normally appears alongside Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, but each of these men tells us something about our times.

In their own way, they are part of the changing of the old order — a shift that involves liberalism, democracy, racism, assumptions of power and indeed the future of the West.

McGuire has discovered that racism now has costs: in his case, his job as president of Collingwood Football Club.

Eddie could not just talk his way out of the damning Do Better report leaked earlier this month, which found systemic racism at Collingwood.

Now, McGuire is caught in the crosshairs of a global reckoning on race.

The Black Lives Matter movement has amplified the voices of people previously too often voiceless.