"If the host country acts contrary to the spirit of the game, then one must take a principled decision," you are quoted as saying.
“In this country we always condemn racism … so I must be consistent … strong condemnation is required” you have said live on news media. "If I am seen as fighting against it in my own country, I cannot be seen as turning a blind eye because it is in another country".
Right now you are on E-TV saying that "in this day and age we cannot accomodate racism".
Danny, these are very pious statements. However, the whole world does believe you. Really! Many even admire your cancellation of a family trip to Euro 2012™ .
Alongside is a plaque correctly depicting the apartheid socio-economic model. F W De Klerk, and gang, cannot deny it, wish it away or seek to rationalize its reality. I am sure you will agree that it is overtly racist in letter and spirit. No question!
Under this model a White person was entilted, as of right, to a job and the award of contracts, denied to a Black person.
It is against this model that you are taking a stance against, telling the whole World that you are principled and consistent. You are 100% right. All right thinking human beings will agree with you.
Now please have a look at the plaque on the right side. It is EXACTLY the same plaque as the first one, with ONLY the
colour coding reversed.
colour coding reversed.
It correctly depicts the express letter and spirit of the current socio-economic transformational model in South Africa. No question!
Under this model a Black person is entilted, as of right, to a job and the award of contracts, denied to a White person, even if the White is a 24 year old who had nothing to do with apartheid..
Under both models a Coloured person (and Indian) was/is forced to deny his/her ethnicity in order to access socio-economic justice.
So here we have harsh reality. The current socio-economic transfomational model is an EXACT MIRROR IMAGE of the apartheid model. We cannot deny it or wish it away.
If one is racist, so is the other; or is it not in terms of some new brand of logic? When rights and priviledges are allocated on the basis of race/ethnicity/skin coloour we have racism. Or is this not the case in terms of newly discovered reasoning?
With respect, it cannot change simply because one is a White product and the other is a Black product. Surely?
With respect, it cannot change simply because one is a White product and the other is a Black product. Surely?
So please explain to the World, that you are posturing to, why is it that you are not "taking a principled deciision" and "a consistent stance" as regards our current model?
Why is it that you are not, in fact, "always condemning racism" having claimed that this is what we do in this country?
Is this what Nelson Mandela meant when he said in his "Never Again" speech that? - -
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.
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Of course rich coloureds, blacks and whites will cosy up to each other. It's a class attraction. Those who are and smell clean and have clean smelling cars and houses will be comfortable with each other's company in same neighbourhood. A rich black/coloured/white man despises the poor of his race and prefers and even kowtows to the rich of the other race. Danny coloureds like him act characteristically in terms of class relations.
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