Four decades after Australia shelved a controversial immigration cardinals vs athletics policy, racism paloma faith has erupted on the football pitch, forcing a champion Aboriginal sportsman to consider retiring.
Adam Goodes, a recipient of the nation’s top citizen’s honor, has been loudly booed at recent Australian Rules football matches coast-to-coast. The controversy stems from a match in May 2013, when a 13-year-old miguel rojas girl in the crowd called him an “ape”; Goodes identified her to police and she was removed. A tribal war dance he performed in May further angered his critics.
