So, when Khawaja pointed at me and mentioned the times, he’s bailed me out from the recurring harassment, it was important that he did so. For, he brought it up in the middle of an answer about what it feels like to be racially profiled over the course of a lengthy career. That precise moment during his 52-minute retirement press conference when he realised everything, he had said about his experiences were all going to be immediately chucked under the “brown guy playing the race card” narrative from many outside the confines of the conference.
