Exciting moment TV interview with guard is interrupted by racist heckler: ‘Ashamed to be Australian’

A television interview with a security guard was shockingly interrupted by a racist heckler in Sydney’s west.

SBS took to the streets of St Marys this week to speak to locals about high unemployment in Australia’s Dinka community and the difficulty South Sudanese migrants are having in finding work.

The Dinka-speaking migrant community has an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, almost twice the national unemployment rate of 4.2 percent.

The episode interviewed two men who have degrees from Australian universities but are still looking for work in their favorite field years later.

Bol Kuol, who came to Australia as a refugee, said he had applied for 73 jobs but was not called for an interview once.

But as he spoke, an angry man interrupted him off camera and said, “We won’t stop talking if you talk shit like that, man.”

Mr Bol seemed visibly shocked and upset by the comments.

‘We were here before. Why don’t you ask him what he gets when he comes to Australia,” the unidentified man added.

Bol Kuol (photo) applied for 73 jobs, but was not invited to a single interview

‘A damn house, car, money, job. They’re taking everything from us, and you’re worried about their black asses?’

The heckler was called out by many shocked online viewers who said the comments made them “ashamed to be Australian”.

Others urged SBS to identify the heckler.

‘Scandalous. I’m ashamed to be Australian. Very unfortunate that you (had to) experience this racism Bol. We have to do it and be better,” one viewer wrote.

Another added: ‘Sadly not surprising. The poor man didn’t deserve that barrage of ignorance and hatred! I wish him the best for now and for his future.”

A third wrote: ‘More people need to see this. It was the Arabs in the 00s, the Asians in the 1990s and the Europeans in the 1970s and 1980s.

“The target changes, but the hate is the same.”

Mr Bol moved to Australia with his family as a refugee in 2003 as a child.

“My family was unsafe (in South Sudan) and there was also a lack of opportunities,” he said.

He has a degree in social sciences, majoring in sociology, but instead works as a security guard because he cannot find a job in his field.

“For six years I’ve been searching online and applying everywhere… if you don’t know anyone who works in your profession, it’s very difficult to get in,” he said.

‘I’m not the only one. There are also too many people looking for a job.’

Despite the constant setbacks, Bol has not given up his search for a job in his favorite field, sociology.

“I’m still hoping someone will contact me and say, ‘We’re interested in you.’

‘So I’m still very optimistic. That’s what keeps me going.’

Other viewers wished Mr Bol good luck.

‘It is a huge achievement to study in a country where you arrive as a refugee. Hopefully someone will recognize all you have overcome and give you a chance,” one person wrote.

‘Your life experience is also valuable. In the meantime, it’s good that you can work in other areas. Success!’