Adam Goodes went from one of the most respected people in the afl to once of the most hated almost overnight and it all came from his stand against racism.
If you could compare him to any league player it would be DCE. DCE went from fairly well liked to booed by everyone due to one incident - his back flip. You May Say You Hate DCE as a Person But all the the DCE hate stems from his back flip.
Goodes is similar to to DCE, you may say his hated as a person, for his diving, for being a 'flog' (whatever that is) but why didn't he receive this amount of booing from afl fans before 2013? The fact that he was cheered so hard and respected so much pre 2013 shows that the booing of Goodes is a racial issue even if people have convinced themselves they aren't booing him because his black. Unlike DCE were we can say we hate him for back flipping we can't say we hate Goodes for making a stand against racism. The afl fans and media are trying to come up with every excuse as to why goodes is being booed but the fact that he wasn't booed pre 2013 for these things says a lot
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I get what you're saying and putting on my serious pc hat here (this isn't done often), there is a large degree of validity in what he's saying re: racism and so on.
The problem is unfortunately, if you soapbox every minor issue that in his opinion relates to covert or overt racism, the message becomes oversaturated and the backlash begins. So the entire point of the message is lost in a swirl of personal dislike.
That's not to say, he should shutup and take it - it's more of a case of having to pick the battles he publicly fights. Otherwise the position of "power" he currently holds in society as an influential voice begins to be diluted in the face of people dismissing whatever message he has as just another whinge.
The fact that people are booing him I don't think is because he is an aboriginal, i think that's a ridiculous assumption - if the crowd was indeed truly racist, they would boo every aboriginal or non-caucasian player. They don't though, do they? But they do boo a guy who seems to be almost constantly in the spotlight, because of the way he goes about things, regardless of the message. That goes for anything - it's not necessarily about what you say, but how you say it.
If you want to napalm any scenario, it's totally your right to do so, but you can't then complain about the public and their reaction if it's what you do every single time. people get tired of it and bite back. And they've bitten back in the form of booing the guy. When you think about it, that's probably the most diplomatic way of showing your dislike for someone, apart from making a mean face at him.
