A television interview with a security guard was shockingly interrupted by a racist heckler in St Mary’s, a western Sydney suburb with a large immigrant population.
The episode was on the high unemployment levels in ‘s Dinka community from South Sudan and the struggles some migrants have to find work.
Dinka-speaking migrants have a 7.8 per cent rate of unemployment, which is almost twice the national 4.2 per cent rate.
SBS Examines interviewed two men who have degrees from n universities but years later they are still looking for work in the areas they studied.
Bol Kuol said he applied for 73 jobs, but not once had he been called for an interview.
But as he spoke, an angry man interrupted from off-camera, saying ‘We’re not going to stop talking when you’re talking that s***, man.’
Mr Bol was visibly shocked and upset by what the man said to him, with online commenters saying it made them ‘ashamed to be n’.
‘We were here before all of that. Why don’t you ask him what he gets when he comes to ,’ the heckler added.
‘A f***** house, car, money, job. They’re taking everything from us, and you’re worried about their black a***s?’
The man has been called out for his comments, with many saying the broadcaster should identify him.
‘Disgraceful. Makes me ashamed to be n. So sorry you (had to) experience this racism Bol. We need to do and be better,’ one commenter wrote.
Another wrote that it was ‘Not surprising unfortunately. Poor man didn’t deserve that barrage of ignorance and hate! Wishing him well now and for his future.’
A third said that ‘More people need to see this. It was the Arabs in the 00s, the Asians in the 90s, and the Europeans in the 70s and 80s.
‘The target changes but the hate is the same.’