Saturday, February 23, 2008

Whites ejected from Zuma meeting


So much for our New South African Rainbow Nation!

This article from my local paper really scared me. I couldn't find the article online so I just scanned it in. For me, it paints a picture that even though we're out of the Apartheid era, there is still an obsession with race.

The gist of the article is that the "Forum of Black Journalists" (I don't see how in the Rainbow Nation we can have organizations specifying the race you have to be, but anyway) had President of the ANC, Jacob Zuma as the guest speaker.

The White journalists who were there, were escorted out.
When Yusuf Abramjee (a supposedly Muslim journalist who was allowed to stay) openly condemned the gathering, he was loudly heckled.

Then to top it off, Jacob Zuma (probably the future president of South Africa) said to journalists afterwards that he "saw nothing wrong" with the enforced colour bar.

This should not be tolerated in any country, let alone one that is constantly blowing its own trumpet about equality.

I'm disgusted.

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