'King Kong' remarks add to Goodes racism furore
Collingwood's president puts foot in it just days after 13-year-old girl abused Aboriginal player
Prominent television commentator and Collingwood club president Eddie McGuire has been embroiled in a racism controversy only days after a 13-year-old fan racially abused Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes during an Australian Football League match.
McGuire, who went into the Swans dressing room after the match to apologise to Goodes on behalf of the Magpies club, suggested during a Melbourne radio programme yesterday that Goodes would be a good person to promote the musical King Kong.
Goodes, an Australian Aboriginal, was upset last week after being called an ape by the teenage girl during the AFL match. Security escorted the girl out of the stadium.
Goodes yesterday tweeted: "Morning Australia this is what I have woken up to" along with the hashtag "racismstopswithme." He also posted a link to a story about McGuire's comments.
Former player Luke Darcy, a co-host on the Triple M radio breakfast show, described a promotional item for the musical and McGuire replied: "Get Adam Goodes down for it do you reckon?" Darcy replied he would not have thought so.
But McGuire added: "You can see them doing that can't you? Goodsey. You know with the ape thing, the whole thing, I'm just saying the pumping him up and mucking around, all that sort of stuff."