{"id":28120,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/eddie-betts-says-he-nearly-outed-his-racial-abuser-but-one-thing-stopped-him\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","slug":"eddie-betts-says-he-nearly-outed-his-racial-abuser-but-one-thing-stopped-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/eddie-betts-says-he-nearly-outed-his-racial-abuser-but-one-thing-stopped-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Betts Says He Nearly Outed His Racial Abuser &#8212; But One Thing Stopped Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eddie Betts<\/strong> says he came close to naming and shaming the abuser who <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Eddie-Betts-Calls-Out-Racist-Insult-On-Social-Media\">vilified<\/a> him on social media last weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cA big part of me wanted to name and shame,\u201d Eddie told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cI wanted to name and shame this young boy &#8212; he\u2019s a teenage boy.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI was so angry and I wanted to put it out there and say, listen, it\u2019s not acceptable. But then I thought about I &#8211;, he\u2019s a young teenage boy\u2026 he goes to school and if I named and shamed him he may get bullied at school.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf there\u2019s other indigenous kids at that school that know that he did it there may be a fight. I said to myself, I can\u2019t solve this with violence. It\u2019s more so being educated. You know what leads from bullying: maybe death, suicide.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf I named and shamed him it would affect him more than it affects me now. I so badly wanted to put it out there but I thought about the ripple effect\u2026 it does hurt, these words.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cTo be honest I\u2019m getting sick of it. I just want to play footy, I just want to enjoy it. I love playing footy\u2026 I smile, I\u2019m happy, and I give time for everybody. That was a Fremantle supporter asked for a photo and I was happy to give a photo.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe tagged me in it and I go on my social media, it\u2019s the first photo that comes up and it was the first comment underneath it and I thought, I can\u2019t let this go. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/AFL-Superstar-Films-An-Emotional-Message-Of-Support-For-Eddie-Betts\">AFL SUPERSTAR FILMS AN EMOTIONAL MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR EDDIE BETTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/interview-eddiebetts-13june2018\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Betts says he came close to naming and shaming the abuser who vilified him on social media last weekend. \u201cA big part of me wanted to name and shame,\u201d Eddie told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cI wanted to name and shame this young boy &#8212; he\u2019s a teenage boy.\u201d \u201cI was so angry and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Betts Says He Nearly Outed His Racial Abuser - But One Thing Stopped Him - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/eddie-betts-says-he-nearly-outed-his-racial-abuser-but-one-thing-stopped-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Betts Says He Nearly Outed His Racial Abuser -- But One Thing Stopped Him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eddie Betts says he came close to naming and shaming the abuser who vilified him on social media last weekend. \u201cA big part of me wanted to name and shame,\u201d Eddie told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cI wanted to name and shame this young boy &#8212; 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