Is it racist to cheer against the Indigenous team?

[grandorient]

Stuff me, don't you guys realise that Tone83 is actually Skull.

GO

 

[WayneBennett]

I love the annual Blackfellas v Whitefellas game.

 

[BunniesMan]

I love the annual Blackfellas v Whitefellas game.

Yep guys with 'white pride' tats proudly cheer on Michael Jennings and Manu Vatuvei.

 

[Matchball]

Metho's v's Gubba's.

 

[bottle]

Feelgood games need more rainbows & unicorns

If you cheer for the unicorns you are clearly homophobic.

 

[Perth Red]

Surely the answer lies in playing Maori v Aborginal, then if your a white racist you wouldn't watch the game and feel no sense of conflict?

 

[Fire]

I cheer for players from my team represented not to get injured.

Other then that i couldn't give a single f**k about the All Stars game

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

So true. End thread.

 

[innsaneink]

Tim Moltzen, come on down

 

[BunniesMan]

I cheer for players from my team represented not to get injured.

Other then that i couldn't give a single f**k about the All Stars game

I'll second this.

 

[webbland]

Don't even watch it so i can't be labelled a rascist for supporting any team. Imo it's not promoting rl but promoting rascism be it revers e rascism or your plain standard rascism. My opinion

 

[MARSHALL ZHUKOV]

Serious question.

I ask this because I'm not indigenous so I feel no reason to cheer for them. But I also feel no need to cheer for the All Stars teams because they are a mix of different cultures, nationalities and clubs and they really don't represent anything as a whole except the individual players. Basically what I'm getting at is there comes an uncomfortable feeling with cheering against the indigenous side.

In most ways it's a celebration of the indigenous roots of rugby league in Australia but in other ways it can come across as it's just promoting an 'us vs them' culture especially if the game takes off and becomes something big like SOO. Tjis question isn't meant to be demeaning, just wondering what people's thoughts are.

Indigenous means original inhabitants of the country/surrounding islands belonging to that country and their descendants but a person can be also deemed an indigenous person if accepted as such by that community even when they are not indigenous(descendant of original inhabitants) at all- only 2/7% or so of people indentify themselves as indigenous in any case. So would a player accepted by the indigenous community be eligible for selection in the indigenous team??.

 

[WayneBennett]

I like the word " Indigenous ". Rolls off the tongue

 

[Apey]

Bump.

 

[BranVan3000]

I personally think this concept will be replaced by the 9s tournament, but I love the idea of an indigenous team. They need to retain it within the 9s tournament and give the indigenous team priority choice over club participation - prize money to go straight into the indigenous community.

 

[DC_fan]

Not sure this concept has a long shelf life.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Not sure this concept has a long shelf life.

40,000 crowd says otherwise. This game needs to travel, rotate through qld, vic and nsw

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

although the crowd only looks like high 20s... where did these guys get the 40k estimate from?

 

[Matchball]

Hodges is a dirty cat.

 

[some11]

although the crowd only looks like high 20s... where did these guys get the 40k estimate from?

Rabs always pulls some crowd figure out of his arse.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

I like it. Dunno why it's presumed it's black v white

There are white guys in indigenous and black guys in nrl a s

The fact that we see people in the crowd actually looking totally proud of their heritage is enough for me

Lets face it in many parts of Australia the aboriginal culture is a constant source of ridicule and jokes etc

This game gives immense pride to theit community, and not in a forced fake way

I say keep it