“The young bloods innocence merely attempting to emulate his hero hurts my heart”.
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“I can’t defend it. because it is hurtful to our indigenous brothers and sisters”, she wrote after removing the post.
West Coast player Naitanui even weighed in himself, revealing his sadness for the child who obviously would clearly have no concept of the historical significance of blackface. There’s no reason for anyone to abuse the woman who made the original post, and there’s no reason to abuse Hall for her response.
In a post by the boy’s mother to a blogger’s Facebook page she writes that she anxious about the reaction from “politically correct extremists” but went ahead with the costume anyway.
The mummy blogger caught up in a vitriolic online debate over a child dressed up in blackface has said she is “broken”.
“So I grew a set of balls and painted my boy brown and he looked fan****tastic”.
‘I just don’t think we should paint our kids in blackface if it offends and hurts people’.
The boy’s mother posted an image of the boy on facebook to a mummy blogger’s page with a caption that included: “After being told by everyone on Facebook not to do it and it’s a disgusting idea etc, my son won the f***ing parade!”
The boy’s mother had earlier described the incident as a “parenting win” but later removed the message from Facebook. “(So many politically correct extremists these days) he is pastey White (sic) and if I just sent him in a wig and footy gear, no one would tell who he was”, she posted on Hall’s wall.
The family members, who were furious that Hall hadn’t thrown her support behind the mother’s “Queening moment” said she was a “fake” and a “c**t”.
She said complete strangers had hugged her on the streets of her hometown of Fremantle. He also expertly shut down all those who criticised him for making it an issue, saying “It’s your privilege to ignore this stuff – it’s my burden to call it out”.
Later on Friday, Naitanui tweeted: “At the end of the day I genuinely admire the kid for looking up to me”.
As part of Book Week, children across the country were encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character or personal hero.
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At the time, then Senator Nova Peris – the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to parliament – said the animosity aimed at Goodes was obvious.
