Mr Mansell took a swipe at the notorious trash talker -- who says he wants a "cut off point" for Aboriginality and that his boxing opponent Geale doesn't deserve to wear the Aboriginal flag on his shorts -- calling him "racist", "embarrassing", "stupid" and "hypocritical".
Mundine said yesterday that he thought they'd "wiped all Aborigines from Tasmania out".
"I don't see him representing us black people, or coloured people. I don't see him out in the communities doing what I do with people ... he got a white woman, white kids," he said.
Given the chance to clarify his comments today, he dug himself in deeper, saying the Government should decide a cut-off point for being Aboriginal.
Hawthorn star blasts Mundine
The backlash has been swift and strong and Mr Mansell said the Aboriginal community was deeply hurt by the comments and that Mundine was not welcome in Tasmania until he apologises.
"This extreme view is like the Ku Klux Klan, it's a neo-Nazi type of thought that's still around," he said.
"It says that, particularly with black people, if a black person has intermarriage with anyone outside the black community those offspring are not pure, so therefore they are not part of the race.
"It doesn't matter who makes the comment, the comment is racist ... it's really embarrassing that the very people who these race arguments were used against are using it against themselves.
"He's talking about 80 per cent of the population in Australia, including himself. It's hypocritical and it's stupid."
Mr Mansell said re-education was needed to fix Mundine's ignorance.
Rubgy league personality Matty Johns said Mundine sold himself short with his racial attack.
"He's trying to sell the fight, but he's selling himself short," Johns said.
"He's terrific bloke, I really like him...but bringing up that stuff is crook, it's disrespectful. That is racist."
Richmond AFL star forward Jack Riewoldt took to Twitter to declare his support for Geale.
"Not much of a boxing fan but.... Can't wait to see Tasmania's own #RealDealGeale give mundine a good old fashioned touch up!" the Tasmanian wrote.
The official 2011 census Twitter account even weighed in to dispel one of Mundine's claims.
"There are 19,626 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in Tas - 4% of the state's population," they wrote.
At yesterday's press conference, Geale said: "I've shown the Aboriginal flag on my trunks for a lot of my fights. I am very proud of my heritage from down in Tasmania.
"It's stupid what he says, but that's the role he plays and that's why most people these days, when he starts off with his rants, they switch off. I know I switch off.
"A lot of people wanted me to take this fight because they're sick of him, they want his career to be finished and they want him to stop saying stupid things."
Read more at news.com.au
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