rosy23 said:
When I heard Goodes called an ape I hadn't heard the term used in a derogatory fashion to black people before. Maybe it's the kind of people I mix with. Others on here refused to believe that. I got emails abusing me for being racist...as well as being overweight, sexually promiscuous and various kinds of porcine descriptions. :hihi
Now knowing the connotation of course I find it unacceptable. No need for it. I still don't think the girl was necessarily being racist. In fact I suspect she wasn't. Hopefully like me she's learned something. It's a shame it was done in such a humiliating and public fashion. I think the way she was treated was despicable.
Who is Adam Goodes to label someone the face of racism, especially when he admitted she didn't know what she was saying? Why has he been silent in the past and why didn't Eddie cop similar a few days later? Hindsight shows he likes to make a scene in the Indigenous round and he no doubt picks his targets. I don't know why anyone resorts to name calling and confronting behaviour to get a message across. Not just Adam Goodes but people in general.
In my view his stopping and pointing out that little girl was non negotiable. We aint living in the 60's anymore. Goodes aint some indigenous boxer in a 2 bit travelling country show that people can mock.
Agree with you the way she was treated was despicable but Goodes did not remove her from her seat, or publicly humiliate her by escorting her up the steps, or separate her from whoever she was with (and if she wasn't alone where were her mates?). That was the security. Nor does Goodes have editorial control over tabloid papers and tv stations.
Pointing her out simply meant 'No. You can get away with that anymore. I am not an ape'
His response to Eddie was 'he is no longer my friend' or something wasn't it. Well, Eddie is an all powerful and high profile media, football and business personality. Publicly stating that he no longer considers him a friend packs a lot of punch for such a high flyer I would have thought.
Suggesting that he picks his targets I take it to mean Goodes is more comfortable picking on little girls than high profile grown men. Wow, I find that an appalling suggestion. I best leave this thread I think.
The political view he articulates regards the discrimination indigenous Australians have experienced and are experiencing. The fact that you describe him as a culprit of division and a bully gives grounds to the possibility that a portion of the booing crowd agree with you, and in fact strongly enough to boo him (not suggesting you would boo him) for his political activities. It’s a distinct possibility is it not.
If we accept the possibility that a portion of the booing crowd feel strongly enough to boo him for his political activities, and if we accept the probability that most of the booing hordes are non indigenous people then the more the crowd boo and the deeper people dig in against any suggestion that there are racist connotations involved here then the uglier and sadder the whole thing gets in my gratuitously insulting view.
If you want change in this world Rosy, you got to put noses out of joint. It's the way of the world.
I best get back to the footy threads where I am always comfortably wrong. Hardwick who I would have sacked is coaching well, the laggards who I would cut are playing well, and the Tiges who I thought would fall are climbing the ladder. Go Tiges!
