Dockerland, as usual, provides the most balanced and respectful analysis on this issue.
This issue - the booing, the call of racism is -
i. complex
ii. divisive
iii. sad
I don't like Goodesy as a player because of his antics on the playing field over a long period including sliding, staging and generally being protected by the umpires and MRP. But I have also marvelled at his football skills, especially in his younger days - could tear a game apart.
When he called out racism against the young girl I applauded his courage to do that. Oh how much easier it would have been for Australia to digest that episode had that racial slur come from a 40-year old white guy and not a 13 year old girl. But for a large slice of the population, they choose to vilify Adam for humiliating an innocent child who didn't exactly understand the nature of the word she uttered. And so the whole argument became very tangled and conflicted from there. Australia, inherently racist as it is, has dug itself a huge hole here that we need to climb out of and that's going to take leadership and education.
Lewis Jetta is one of the Aboriginal players that I most admire. Many young and talented kids from the bush don't make it when drafted to the big city clubs. It says a lot about Lewis's professionalism that his career has never flinched, never wavered since he arrived at Sydney. He keeps out of the limelight, works hard and does his job. It was courageous for him to stand up to the West Coast booers. Whilst I don't mind the first part of the 'war dance', I don't like it being directed at the crowd and I don't like the throwing of the invisible spear. That part makes me very uncomfortable.