Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
January 26, 2014
But his advocacy might never be as influential as his magnificent demonstration of character and compassion in May 2013. The day after Goodes raised his arm to identify a 13-year-old girl in the MCG crowd who had shouted ‘’ape’’ at him, he stood, shaken and shattered, before a media throng.
How utterly absurd:
On Friday, a 13-year-old Collingwood fan at the football with her Nan shouts “ape” at bearded Sydney player Adam Goodes.
She said later she did not mean the word in a racist way and tried to apologise when she was told he was upset. Yet this girl, as old as my year 7 son, was pointed out by Goodes to security staff, who marched her out of the stadium.
She was grilled [and then detained] by police for two hours, initially without her grandmother present, and threatened with charges. Her face was shown on national TV and she was publicly branded a racist.
On Saturday Goodes absurdly declared “racism had a face - and it was a 13-year-old girl”.
If security staff and Police had of done to a "Multicultural" child what they did to this child there would have been a legal case so high you could not jump over it, THEIR ABC and the various other Multicultural Apologists would be howling from the tree tops.
Did this incident secure Adam Goodes the title of Australian of the Year 2014 ?
The US has its Ku Klux Klansmen, Serbia its Ratko Mladic, Australia a teary 13-year-old.
Only by reducing two individuals to racial caricatures - a repentant 13-year-old girl into a white racist and 34-year-old champion footballer into a black victim - could you see in that public shaming a “ magnificent demonstration of character and compassion” worthy of an Australian of the Year. (I do note, however, Goodes was honored for more than this incident alone.)
I completely agree that racism is an evil that must be fought. What concerns me, though, is that the public is instead being coached into acceptance of a New Racism which reduces us to our “racial” identities. Next step: the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians, to divide Australians on the basis of the “race” of their ancestors.
Who runs the Australian of the Year / Racism Industry ?
Ms Shelley Reys AO
Managing Director
Arrilla - Indigenous Consultants & Services
Professor Samina Yasmeen
Director
Centre for Muslim States and Societies
Dr Tim Soutphommasane
Race Discrimination Commissioner
Jason Glanville
Chief Executive Officer
National Centre of Indigenous Excellence
Another Australian institution hijacked.The remaining members are largely administrative or former recipients.
To what extent do our institutions now reflect the values of the people who fund them?
