Heritier Lumumba is suing Collingwood and the AFL.Credit:Pat Scala
In documents filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday,Lumumba alleges Collingwood breached their"duty of care"toward him to provide a safe working environment because of the abuse.
The documents go on to allege the AFL"owed a duty to the plaintiff[Lumumba] to take reasonable steps to prevent players subjecting other players to racial abuse and racially-offensive conduct,and to impose sanctions on players who breached those rules".
"On numerous occasions during his employment,the plaintiff was subjected to racial abuse or racially-offensive conduct,"the court documents read.
"[Collingwood] failed to take any or any sufficient steps to provide and maintain a safe working environment,including by protecting the plaintiff from racial abuse or racially-offensive conduct.
Lumumba alleges the AFL did not take any steps to stop the abuse or"racially offensive conduct".
"By reason of the matters set out above,the plaintiff has suffered loss,damage,and injury including trauma,humiliation,distress,and loss of enjoyment,"the claim reads.
He says the abuse and racially offensive conduct stopped when he was traded to Melbourne in 2014.
In June the Pies appointed Indigenous professor Larissa Behrendt to lead an independent review into the culture at Collingwood during Lumumba's time at the club.