#adam goodes

[thehappyvet]

Every single Australian needs to watch both Adam Goodes documentaries.

To try and summarise, Adam Goodes was an incredible indigenous AFL footballer who was driven to retirement due to constant booing from crowds for like two to three seasons due to calling out racist comments from a crowdmember (among other actions to try and bring awareness to casual racism in australia).

We need to accept that unfortunately casual racism is endemic in our society.

And we need to actively reject it at every opportunity and work towards stopping it all together.

Again, mob mentality coming out in the most messed up way in our culture.

Sources for the docos:

The Australian Dream: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream

The Final Quarter: https://thefinalquarterfilm.com.au/

[internetbt]

[simonk98]

Celebrity Big Brother Australia 2 Dream Cast

So Ten once did Celebrity Big Brother back in 2002, and so a couple of days ago, I wondered if Seven revived it to go with the regular show, who would partake, and this is my 10 Dream Housemate list:

Iggy Azalea

Matthew Newton

Murphy

Magda Szubanski

Jennifer Hawkins

Danny Green

Roxy Jacenko

Adam Goodes

Shannon Ponton

Nikki Webster

[kakaimeitahi]

I’ve seen footballers give opposition fans the finger and they might get a fine but they don’t get boo’ed for it. I think that the fact that this was some kind of cultural expression that some people found confronting that was the issue and this is the thing that has mystified me about it all week. Theres been people talking about “Why are people booing Adam Goode’s”? like theres a mystery about it but there’s no mystery about it at all. It’s not as simple as it being about race, it’s about something else it’s about Australia being a generally tolerant society until minorities demonstrate they don’t know there place and at that moment the minute someone in minority position act as though they are not a mere supplicant then we lose our minds and we say “no no no you got to get back in your box”. And that’s why Adam Goodes ruffles feathers. It’s not because he is controversial it’s because he is a provocateur. It’s because he actually says “I’m going to say something and i’m going to do it at a time and place in which the the cover of Australian society doesn’t cope with it very well”. We saw all this when Michael Long took a stand in 1995, and when he took that stand there was an enormous backlash particularly on Talkback radio saying he was somehow victimizing white kids by complaining about racial vilification. On the field Mel Brown said he’d created a weakness in his armour that was going to be exploited. He promptly came out the next week and got 45 touched against the Brisbane Bears. We have seen this before. What happens is the minute an Indigenous man stands up and is something other than compliant that it is them who is creating division and destroying out culture and that is ultimately what we boo. We boo our discomfort

-Waleed Aly on Adam Goodes

[thehappyvet]

Like, we need to keep talking about this.

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Racism Rules The Roost Down Under

The Indigenous Voice referendum was defeated and many proponents of it feel let down by the nation. The fact that Australia remains the only colonial new world state not to recognise its First Nations people constitutionally is a disgrace. Racism rules the roost down under. Aboriginals in outback regional areas voted Yes for a voice to parliament. So called ‘inner city elites’ voted Yes also.…

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