This only '1 of 71' argument has been explained.Hes the strongest voice but the rest of the indigenous players support him.Goodes therefore cops the heat.Once again people dont like there black sports stars been opionated.Just shut up and win us games is how the average punter views there indigenous players.The rest of the afl players get it, the Afl get it but the punters are just hiding behind 'we just.dont like Goodes'.The guise is up.If u dont allow a black man to speak his opinion and state some sad facts about the treatment of Indigenous people whether u like it or not and then boo him incessantly your a rascist.All the other reasons have been exposed as smokescreens
I'm sorry, but I am going to have to disagree with you here.
No one I've ever spoken to sees Goodes as "just shut up and win us the game". That's just a terrible argument. I bet the people that do say such things also say the same about the stellar "white" folk.
Goodes has, like I said, all the right to bring Indigenous issues to the forefront. However, it's the way he is doing it that is incorrect. He didn't have to point that girl out. Instead, he could have raised the issue post game. He could have done the war dance to the opposition and not the crowd. He himself said it was more of a celebration, so why then didn't he do it pre-game? He also could have posed the question to the crowd "why the booing?" instead of straight away going down the lines of that it must be racist. I think he views every Australian as racist due to past racial slur incidents. Yes, this did occur and did again recently, but not every Australian is racist, and not everyone that is booing him is racist also. I for one believe that we are improving as a nation. There's positives, but some folk just want to continually focus on the negative shit.
I want Goodes to be opinionated. I want him to discuss Indigenous rights. However, when your dealing in a sporting domain, then your actions have to be a little different. You just can't incite the crowd. What do you expect the result will be?
The way forward is recognition of the past and not rehashing the issues over and over again. We must all come together and reconcile. It must be a joint effort with ego set aside. There's no place for war. All the anger of the past must be expressed in healthy ways. Although the average Australian is responsible for the majority of reconciling past issues, the Indigenous folk also have to want positive change rather than be preoccupied with the past hurts. There needs to be a conscious forgiveness, otherwise the issue of race will continue for eons to come. True reconciliation is the ability to forgive the other.