I think those commentators who have decided that the booing of Goodes is purely racist have done him a disservice. The issue is more complex than that and there are indeed many people who dislike Goodes not for his aboriginality, but for other reasons. I won't cop the " Way he plays football" line as that is completely inconsistent with the reaction of the crowd to many other players who have done as much as and often a lot more to piss people off. The main issue in my opinion is Goodes strongly put views on Indiginous Australia. For some reason a great chunk of society simply won't tolerate men or women with a high profile stepping outside their station and getting political. Bono,Marlon Brando,Jane Fonda,Robert Frost,Frank Hardy,Paul Robeson,Peter Garrett ( before becoming a politician,Ben Affleck,Cassius Clay ( and Ali), Billie Jean King etc have all been pilloried at one time or another for daring to stand up for their beliefs on divisive issues. In time as views changed of the issues many of these people were applauded for their courage in stepping up and accepting the vitriol that they knew would come and using their positions to try and change the close minded ness of much of the public. Goodes is naive if he thought there wasent going to be a backlash to his AOTY speech and his stance on being racially abused on that fateful night. He may have been badly advised. Perhaps he believed Australians would be more open minded to views that they disagree with. who knows? This whole saga has been depressing. The booing should cease. The football clubs that the booers love have pleaded with them to stop in the name of common decency. It will be interesting to see what happens. It is low rent behaviour but it can't be slated as racist.