WARNING: THE PHOTO BELOW CONTAINS OFFENSIVE MATERIAL An Australian football club has apologized after a number of its players wore blackface while dressed up as Venus and Serena Williams in celebration of the end of the footballers’ season. One member of the Australian Penguin Football Club, which is located in Tasmania, posted a photograph on a public Facebook causing outrage. In the photo, which has since been removed from social media, players Mitch Stanley and Matt Chamberlain can be seen wearing tennis skirts and black wigs in addition to the black body paint plastered not only on their faces — but their entire bodies. The celebration, which is known as Mad Monday, is a term widely used in Australia to refer to the traditional end-of-season festivities for football players. Also in the photo was Beau Grundy, who dressed up as Kenyan-born Sydney Swans AFL player Aliir Aliir. Shortly after the post was shared, many outraged social media users slammed the photo as racist. Outrage as Tasmanian football players dress in Serena Williams blackface https://t.co/KNp1Ls3ycK pic.twitter.com/BY5UwOZscc — SBS News (@SBSNews) September 19, 2018 “Some Australians still have no clue what is considered racist.

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