Sorry George you are so wrong wrong wrong on so many levels with those comments.
So what did Goodes actually say
Well here's the full transcript of the interview - once its finished Goodes has no control over what and how the media chooses to report.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...t/news-story/255a9b49ef91175be4e6d73a8c26a30c
Oh look what they forgot to include
"And all this week, you know, this week is a celebration of our people and our culture and the absolute privilege of meeting the great man Nicky Winmar two days ago now and what he's been able to do for us 20 years ago and to be able to make a stand myself and say racism has a face last night and, you know, it was a 13-year-old girl but it's not her fault.
She's 13, she's still so innocent, I don't put any blame on her. Unfortunately it's what she hears, the environment she's grown up in that has made her think it's ok to call people names."
Unfortunately you've blindly accepted what the media said and as a result have re-endorsed the casual (and not so casual) racism that most definitely exists in the country.
Haven't blindly accepted anything, but thanks for the assumption. I stand corrected. I hadn't been able to bring up the full transcript of what was said, but my point still stands. He said she's so innocent and it's not her fault - So tell me why in the moment did he have to stop after the ball went over the boundary to turn around and not continue playing until she was escorted out of the ground. He is a hypocrite. If he was such a great ambassador and a role model for young children and he identified that the person calling him names was a child, he should've gone and raised it with the AFL after the game or even raise it then and there but don't point directly at her so the TV cameras pan over to her and humiliate her not just in that moment but for the years and years following it. This is why the crowd booed and continued booing him until he retired. It was piss poor, weak, and should've been dealt with much more professionally than it was. But then for him to have the nerve to say that everyone booing him from then on is also a racist - complete rubbish.
i gotta disagree strongly with that sorry George....
by not pointing it out all it does is create a get out clause for racisim ... at what point does a person become old enough to be held accountable for their actions ? 15, 18, 21 ?? honestly the way goodes made his stand while bringing shame to the young girl it also opend up a discussion about how behaviours of parents gets passed down to the kids... the girl in question was looked after and was provided education and support after being called out..
while not ideal that a young girl was put in the public eye i think unless you have been on the recieving end of racial abuse you cant really understand the emotions that flow from it ... im 100% sure Goodes wishes he was never racially villifyed by the girl... but he was... so he had the choice to either a do nothing and in the mind of the girl her coments are acceptable and she grows up thinking thats acceptable or he points it out and cops the critisim of pointing it out...
the follow up booing was mostly racial motivated.. people tryed to excuse it cause he was a dirty player or he was a flog or they just dont like him or as you said he made an example of young girl but for a vast percentage of people booing him it was because he turned a mirror on a behaviour that they felt uncomfortable facing... it put goodes in an unfortunate position because while his community needed him to stay strong on the matter it was causing a divide so while the hopes to push closer to an end of racism it actually put the cause back a few steps ..
to end racism there needs to be a feeling that we are all the same with the goodes thing it gave the power back to the racist to drive a wedge between us all and from my recent footy going experiance the crowd behaviour since the goodes issue has brought the game closer to the era where Nicky made his stand then the era after where we let footballers just be footballers ...
He has every right to point it out, that's not the issue at all. Issue was him putting a child on national television and calling her out for her racist remark. She shouldn't have said it, but like HE said, shes innocent, so why do that to an innocent person. Her family should've had a please explain from the AFL or gone into some kind of counselling before her.. He didn't have only two choices in that moment. Do nothing or call her out you say? Nah, he could've done something and not call her out at the same time.
And the follow up booing was not racially motivated, sorry I don't buy that at all. That's media spin. If you really think that then you basically think I am a racist, and that's laughable. I would never boo any player at the football for whatever reason, I think it's a stupid thing to do to begin with. But I was most definitely sick and tired of him politicising the game and painting all booing football fans with the same brush. That's incredibly stupid from his end. People didn't boo Eddie Betts when he made stands against racism, or Lewis Jetta or any other indigenous player. And it's not because Goodes "pointed it out". It's because he had the whole situation backwards. It's sad to think that he thought people were booing him because they were racists. We celebrate players like Winmar and Betts and others who have stood up before / proud to be indigenous. We celebrate players like Majak Daw & Aliir Aliir. Bachar Houli, and others that have a voice for their communities. I don't think any of those players have ever been booed before. Goodes hasn't been the only one to call it out - yet he is the one who copped it the most. I think it's pretty obvious why.
A guy calls out racism.
Our response: Racism is bad BUT that's a pretty poor way to go about calling it out.
What our response should be: RACISM IS BAD!
In the words of Jon Snow (from Game of Thrones): everything before the word but is horseshit.
I will always be reluctant to criticise someone for how they react when they experience something that vile. I will never know what it is like to experience that and for me to criticise someone for their response seems to be the ultimate example of entitlement/privilege.
P.S. if i did need to elaborate on what our response should be it would be this: How incredibly sad is it that a 13 year old girl has somehow picked up that that is an acceptable thing to say. What example are her parents or those around her setting? Where did she pick this up from? It is just a poor reflection on our society. (and yes, i fully acknowledge that she didn't know what the words she said meant - but that does not mean that Goodes wouldn't have felt the pain of them)
So racism is bad no matter how you call it out. Even if you humiliate a child (who doesn't know what she is saying and is influenced by her surroundings) in the process?
He should've brought attention to it but not in the way that he did. I don't even have issue with that as much as I do with the actions from Goodes following it. Getting booed because he is quite frankly a wanker and he then puts everyone in the same boat and labels them as racists. Some people get sick of having to deal with political issues when they go to watch a game of football. It's an escape for people. Two hours a week where they can forget about it. Yet here he is.
Why couldn't he have made a statement post game about the racial abuse from the crowd and to put a stop to it. He could've contacted the AFL and they could've got in touch with that childs family to offer counselling - which they eventually did, but instead he humiliated her and then told everyone it wasn't her fault.