Indigenous ex-Collingwood star Andrew Krakouer says Eddie McGuire has got it wrong on Taylor Walker’s racism apology

Andrew Krakouer has hit out at former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire’s reaction to a video clip showing Taylor Walker apologise for his racist behaviour. McGuire said he was satisfied with the way Walker had chosen to sit in front of a camera — instead of a live press conference — to prerecord a message to say he was sorry for vilifying North Adelaide’s Robbie Young. When challenged that Walker might have portrayed himself as a victim, and that parts of the clip were contrived, McGuire went on to say: “If you apologise, it’s all spin. If you don’t apologise, then you’re recalcitrant. “If you apologise too much, then you’re adding mayonnaise to it. “There is no answer to this.” Krakouer retweeted McGuire’s quotes and posted the message: “The answer: Don’t be racist. If our blakness (sic) bothers you … you’re a racist.” Walker was banned for six weeks for his racist comment and his future at Adelaide is uncertain. Young also appeared in the video. “The club needed to do something and I looked at that and I thought well, I see he is sincere,” McGuire told Footy Classified on Wednesday. “He has apologised in front of the cameras to the person who was the major person.” Krakouer, who played 35 games for Collingwood, went public earlier this year about the racism he was subjected to during his time with the Magpies. He said one racial slur cut him to his core in the Collingwood changerooms. “I was anxious, I was angry, I was annoyed — and in disbelief that I had just heard that in my own workplace and it was my own teammates who were making the racial slurs,” he said. Earlier this week Krakouer, who also played for Richmond, said education rather than a harsher punishment was the key to ensuring Walker learnt lessons from his behaviour. “It’s about that education,” he told SEN. “People are saying that Taylor (Walker’s) contract should be ripped up, but I don’t think that should be the case. “People make mistakes and I’m certainly one that has done that, you have to give people an opportunity to learn form their mistakes and be better. “Taylor has a fair way to be able to come back, but he needs to get that support.” Collingwood announced earlier this year it would adopt all recommendations from the ‘Do Better’ report that found the club had been guilty of ‘systemic racism’. McGuire quit as president in February after the report was leaked to the public. He came under severe scrutiny for his response to the report.