The dim sheep that form the majority of the media contributors in 2011 have this week followed each other by saying "baa-baa, the AFL has a racism problem," off the back of Sudanese-born player Majak Daw being racially abused at a VFL match.

The AFL doesn't have a racism problem.

Not even a little bit.

However society unquestionably has a dickhead problem and, as hard as this is to believe, not every patron among the literally hundreds of thousands who stream through the gates on a weekly basis - throughout the country - is a chance of being recruited by NASA to help launch its next Space Shuttle.

And while having a high IQ and being a racist is not necessarily mutually exclusive, there's a fair chance that anyone judging someone's character by the colour of their skin, or the God they choose, is an ignorant imbecile.

Now while Andrew Demetriou and the executives at the AFL can be criticized on talkback radio about big issues such as the price of bottled water at Etihad Stadium or whether the Auskick kids at half-time get enough admission tickets for all four of their parents, how they can possibly be accused of not doing enough to promote multicultural opportunity in the game, and to stamp out entrenched racism in the code, is beyond comprehension.

Anyone who stood at the dirty suburban terrace grounds of the then VFL in the early ‘80s and heard the ritual and continuous filth coming out of supporters' mouths towards the likes of the late Maurice Rioli, Jim and Phil Krakouer, umpire Glenn James and Robert Dipierdomenico could only give an ironic laugh at the notion.

In fact, Dipierdomenico - the Big Dipper - knows better than most the change in community attitudes on the topic, having found himself on the verge of being sacked as the code's official Auskick ambassador a year ago, after he dropped an inappropriate line at a sportsman night that quickly became public knowledge.

He was suspended without pay, named, shamed and ordered to undergo counselling and education sessions.

The "control-ables" were controlled and a legend of the game had his arse thoroughly kicked by a game that abhors racism and (since the Nicky Winmar and Michael Long controversies of the '90s) has done everything it possibly could to change its own and community attitudes towards the issue.

Yet now that a couple of supporters have uttered inexcusable comments - that no-one has come close to defending -  the "moral Olympics" have started with a queue forming to see who can outdo each other by being the most outraged and most disgusted.

"Let's give racism the boot."

"These things should be stamped out of the game."

"Every person is entitled to a workplace free from vilification."

"There's no place for racism in sport."

Thank you all, Captain Obvious.

The exception here is Majak Daw himself and his North Melbourne president James Brayshaw.

They rightly and, in Daw's case, bravely, did the media rounds to tell the player's side of the story and HIS club's president's disgust at HIS player's abuse.

The poignant first-person account gave weight and insight to the topic.

The rest ... baa baa ... just followed.

("Racetrack" Ralphy Horowitz is a former producer at "The Footy Show" "Sunday Footy Show" 3AW and SEN. He now works in media strategy and horseracing, and appears on Radio Sports National (927am) each Monday morning. Twitter.com/rtralphy)