When Goodes squealed about that young Collingwood fan he lost me. There was better ways to deal with that but he knows damn well being Aboriginal no one would question him because the issue is such a political hot potato.
Do not agree with this at all.
I was at the game when that incident happened.
He clearly heard the 'ape' comment from over the fence.
He is a leader of the aboriginal community. It was the opening game of the 'Indigenous Round'. What was he supposed to do -ignore it?? He'd be a poor leader if he did that -just accepting and soaking up another racist comment. If they all did that, the comments would just keep coming. Goodes took a stand in a week when we were supposedly celebrating aboriginal footballers, not racially abusing them.
He pointed out the person that said the comment. The fact that it was a young girl wasn't Goodes fault. She made the comment.
The girl apologised. Goodes accepted the apology. It was a big story at the time and the media played it up with newspaper and TV interviews.
It was a racist comment -she didn't call Mike Pyke an ape, even though he's bigger than Goodes. The girl learned a hard lesson, but I'll bet she never makes another racist comment at the footy -plus many others (although not all) would have stopped their racist comments -all due to Goodes bringing the issue to a head.
Why have an 'Indigenous Round' if we can't accept an indigenous leader speaking out. We don't have to agree with him, but he has the right to speak out.