Essay On Adam Goodes

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Adam Goodes is one of the most well known Australian Football Players of all time, for both his elite sporting skill which won him many important awards which led to achieving major milestones, or the controversy surrounding him because of the cultural barrier between Indigenous Australians and white Australians. Goodes actions sparked a uproar between the AFL fans, commentators and teams with some saying that he was in the right the whole time while others opposed him, even still to this day.

In June, During a match between Carlton and the Sidney Swans, Goodes' team, after scoring a goal he chanted with a Indigenous war cry which was directed towards the Carlton fans sitting in the stadium's stands. The war cry ended with the infamous 'imaginary spear throw' which visibly angered the Carlton crowd who then started to boo the Indigenous footballer. This booing didn't just …show more content…

Goodes called over security who then kicked her out of the stadium, she went to social media to vent about the events that just occurred, she claims that she didn't know that the word didn't have any racist connotations. Pictures of the footballer on Wikipedia were changed to pictures of apes and monkeys. “To hear a 13-year-old girl call me an ape ... it was shattering,” Goodes said. “Racism has a face. It’s a 13-year-old girl.” (Humanrights.gov.au, 2016). He made it apparent that he wasn't disappointed at the the young girl but at her parents who have taught her racist ways of thinking, this sparked a large discussion in all types of media, asking if she was old enough to understand what she was really saying. In 2014 Goodes was given Australian of the year, one of the highest honours in the country, he then started called Australia Day, the day when Europeans landed on the shores of now Sydney, to Invasion

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