Adam bringing the Goodes to Indigenous Australians:
Adam Goodes is a successful Sydney Swans player who has a different representation of himself portrayed in many different situations. Whether it’s being awarded Australian of the year to being booed on the football field by his oppositions team supporters. Adam is a well-known anti-racial Australian figure who has made many contributions to indigenous sport and youth since he became aware of how racism effects Australia in 2013, by doing so he has received much recognition of his achievements and has become a well-known face of anti-racism.
On the 5th of September 2015, during an AFL qualifying final, Adam Goodes was booed every time he touched the football. Many assumed this was because he was indigenous but the majority of the booing was because of the way in which Adam angered at the crowd’s behaviour and how he acted when he was attacked by an opposing teams crowd member earlier that year. Goodes was seen as a trouble maker who wanted to stir up the crowd when he celebrated a goal with an Indigenous war dance in which only made the crowd angrier.
Adam Goodes was nominated Australian of the year on the 25th of January in 2014. The award was for his contribution to sport and indigenous youth in which Adam supported Aboriginal kids in detention centres and he promoted education and
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#IStandWithAdam gained traction on social media, with fans tweeting photos of themselves at games and watching at home. Goodes and his team members entered the field through a ‘Respect’ banner and Adam was applauded for a full minute. Every player on the Melbourne Demons wore armbands in black, yellow and red, to represent the Aboriginal flag and several Sydney Swans players paid tribute to Goodes with war dances after kicking goals showing their support to