| Updated March 11, 2021 Supplied Many culturally diverse Australians have felt the need to change their names. Here are some of their stories. Héritier Lumumba prompted the investigation into systemic racism at the Collingwood Football Club after saying he endured a “culture of racist jokes” while playing for the Magpies from 2005 to 2014. However, he began facing racism long before his AFL career, when he felt the need to change his name to Harry O’Brien after being “laughed at every day.” In an interview with the ABC in 2017, Lumumba said his birth name was “difficult” for teachers to pronounce during roll call.