The one thing he should stop doing is trying to intimidate the crowd,
He went overboard with the girl,(she commented on how he looked with that "beard" and it had nothing to do
with racism yet he played it far all it's "worth").
So that's one reason they boo him,(if he had actually handled that correctly he may have earned a bit of
respect but he choose to do it his way as in poor me).
He then decides to throw an imaginary spear at the crowd,(spears are thrown to kill people so how is the crowd
suppose to act).
He does other "stupid" things to have a "go" at the crowd.
The crowd don't respect him,that's why they boo him,(it's the same way crowds behave with other players that
they don't respect).
He's gone overboard and it's his own fault as to why he gets boo'd,(trying to play the racism card wont work
as that's not what it's about).
To me he's the same as Ron Barassi,(always looking to stay in the media spotlight),
The one thing he should stop doing is trying to intimidate the crowd,
yep. if he directed the spear throwing dance towards
his supporters, i don't believe he would be getting the
reaction he is getting now. sook.
Personally I think most of this carry on is media driven, they want the crowds to keep booing so they can keep the word racist on the front page. it seems to sell papers for some reason. It certainly gets people talking and the more people talk and argue about it the bigger the circus will become.
I have a particular dislike for Wayne Carey and probably would have booed him if I had the chance, probably even did from my lounge chair. I guess I cant be called racist for that because we are both white, but if I was indigenous would I be a racist?
Adam was always one of my favorite footballers but his constantly labelling white people racist is wearing a bit thin. He seems hell bent on dividing races rather than uniting them. I think that where the booing stems from.
And the war dance/spear throwing episode, what exactly was that about? I'm not sure how pretending to throw a spear into the crowd would do anything other than fire them up? Now I'm reading that dance was only made up a few years back and has no cultural significance, is that even true? Surely there is something significant in aboriginal heritage that can be brought into the game that everybody can get behind, something other than imitating throwing spears into the crowd. It would be great to see an aboriginal equivalent of the haka at he start of a game, that would be something uniting.
Anyone find it strange there is a louder cry to stop the booing than there is stop the racial slurs?
Being called on to stop booing just one player because he's indiginous, is that not racist? Why are the other players that get booed fair game still?
@bluecat*dancing wrote:So, being told to go back to the zoo or being called an ape is not racist?
Who knows what was in the mind of the person who told him to go back to the zoo?
The ape bit was not a racist comment because the girl called him that because of how the beard made him
look,(it had nothing to do with him being aboriginal).
The 13-year-old said she wanted to apologise to Goodes, saying: "I don't know why it came out, I just kind of meant it as a joke and then he heard it and he thought it was racist."
"I'm sorry for what I said, I didn't mean it in a racist way," Julia said.
And, fancy showing pride in your indigenous heritage during an indigenous round by performing an indigenous war cry.
Try and see the perspective from the other side,(if you were sitting in the crowd and someone threw an
imaginary spear at you,what would your reaction be?).
One Carlton fan was reportedly ejected from the ground after becoming confrontational following Goodes' dance: Some people dubbed Goodes' dance 'aggressive and unsportsmanlike'
Then Jetta did it against West Coast and of course they have earned more dis-respect
This takes acceptance further apart as it's seen as intimidation by people and the opposite of what they claim to
be doing,
