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White liberals are just racists

It is typical of the so-called white “liberals” in South Africa to pretend they “understand” white privilege, when in fact they strive to maintain it.

They always sugar coat the truth and feel uneasy when the black victims of apartheid start to tell it like it is.

When this happens, they use their money to sponsor conferences on “Social Cohesion” and studies on “National Reconciliation”, the objective being to continue to suffocate the voices of those who are still left out of the system.

White people in SA today are the beneficiaries of apartheid and the “white privileges” they enjoy today are as a result of apartheid.

The irritating thing about this is when they want to preserve these ill-gotten white privileges by opposing the redress measures aimed at the current imbalances caused by apartheid, and labeling them “racist”.

To me as a black person, those who still sponsor organisations like the The SA Institute of Race Relations,the Helen Suzman Foundation,the FW De Klerk Foundation and the Free Market Foundation, are no different to Pick and Pay and Land Rover sponsoring Hofmeyer.

These organisations still fight in a sophisticated manner to preserve their ill-gotten privileges.

The outcomes are the same, with some trying to package the same claptrap better.

S. Moloko

Thousands of white Americans protest racial inequality

Thousand have taken to the streets to protest racial inequality in the US, while thousands more whites have joined a Twitter campaign to publicly confess their sins before the law, in an effort to shatter the criminal stereotyping of African-Americans.

In an attempt to expose police racial prejudice across the United States, Caucasian Twitter users spilled their wrongdoings to the world in a series of confession they have got away with that they believe African-Americans probably would not.

Using the #CrimingWhileWhite, some people recalled them getting away with a number of offences, including grand theft auto, driving violations, and drugs abuse.

Meanwhile, for the second night in a row, thousands of protesters overran the streets of New York, shutting down several major arteries of the city as they expressed outrage over a grand jury decision not to indict an officer for the death of an unarmed black man.

In the aftermath of racial violence that erupted in Ferguson, the latest social media campaign follows other recent high-profile incidents of police’s lethal brutality against black men and the perceived lack of punishment for the white officers responsible.

Michael Brown was shot six times by a white policemen in Ferguson, Missouri in August.

The cases involve Eric Garner who was killed by a chokehold by an NYPD officer in July and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed in Cleveland in November.

Cultural Marxists persecute 3-year olds for ‘racism’ in Britain

Some years ago, the British Daily Mail reported that “toddlers should be taught about racism and singled out for criticism if they have racist attitudes, a Government-funded advisory group said”.

It told nursery teachers, playgroup leaders and childminders to record and report every racist incident involving children as young as three.

These could include saying ‘Yuk’ about unfamiliar food.

Even babies should not be ignored in the hunt for racism because they can ‘recognise different people in their lives’, a new guide for nurseries and child care centres said.

The instructions for staff in charge of pre-school children in day care have been produced by the National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12million a year, mostly through taxpayer-funded organisations.

The NCB, which describes itself as ‘an umbrella body for the children’s sector’, has long used its resources to campaign on controversial issues, for example in favour of a legal ban on smacking by parents.

It also runs the Sex Education Forum, a campaign for more sex education in schools.

The new 366-page guide, Young Children and Racial Justice, warned that ‘racist incidents among children in early years settings-tend to be around name-calling-casual thoughtless comments, and peer group relationships’.

It said such incidents could include children using words like ‘blackie’, ‘Pakis’, ‘those people’ or ‘they smell’.

Children might also ‘react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying “yuk”.’

Nursery staff are told: ‘No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist intent, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action.’

If children ‘reveal negative attitudes the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes’.

Nurseries are encouraged to report as many racist incidents as possible to local councils.

‘Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution,’ it said. ‘In fact, the opposite is the case.’

The guidance said that anyone who disagrees is racist themselves.

It also suggests cultivating the home languages of new immigrants – despite Government anxiety to promote the learning of English.

It said: ‘English is now viewed as the major language of the world but this is not because it has any innate linguistic advantages – it is because English is the language of power in a world dominated by English-speaking peoples.’

Critics of the race programme for pre-school children labelled it ‘totalitarian’.

Author and researcher on family life Patricia Morgan said: ‘Stepping in to stop severe bullying is one thing, but this is interference in the lives of children. It smacks of totalitarianism.

‘It is regulation of private speech and thought. They intend nursery staff to step into children’s playground squabbles and then report them to the local council as race incidents. Who would ever have thought that the anti-racism crusade would go so far?’

Ten-year old criminally charged for ‘racist speechcrime’

A boy of ten has already been taken to court for calling a mixed race 11-year-old ‘Paki’ and ‘Bin Laden’ in a school playground argument.

The pair subsequently made up and became friends again, yet the Crown Prosecution Service decided to go ahead because the victim’s mother made a complaint.

The ten- year- old eventually appeared at Salford Youth Court in 2006 where he denied a racially motivated offence under the Public Order Act of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause another person harm or distress.

But District Judge Jonathan Finestein ordered the authorities to review their decision to prosecute.

He said of the defendant: ‘I shouldn’t think he understands Bin Laden or Al Qaeda. I’m not condoning what he supposedly said but there must be other ways of dealing with this apart from criminal prosecution.’

Prosecutors later decided not to pursue the case.

‘Racist’ scientist forced to sell Nobel Prize medal

‘I am an unperson’

The geneticist James Watson, who has been ostracized since public comments about black African IQ in 2007, is to auction off his 1962 prize for discovering the structure of DNA. It is expected to fetch in excess of $3 million.

“Because I was an ‘unperson’ I was fired from the boards of companies, so I have no income, apart from my academic income,” said the scientist of the aftermath of the incident seven years ago, which forced him to retire from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he had worked for four decades.

“No one really wants to admit I exist,” he told the Financial Times.

Despite his reduced circumstances – Watson has not been invited to give public lectures since 2007 – the American scientist is not living his life out in poverty. He said he plans to donate some of the proceeds of the sale of the medal to the “institutions that have looked after me,” including his alma mater, the University of Chicago, and Cambridge, where he met laboratory partner Francis Crick, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize.

The 86-year-old Watson also plans to purchase art.

“I really would love to own a [painting by English painter David] Hockney.”

The reserve price for the medal, which will be auctioned off at Christie’s in New York on Thursday, is $2.5 million, and there has been speculation that the final value could easily surpass $3 million. Crick’s medal – auctioned off last year to Jack Wang, a relatively obscure Shanghai biotech entrepreneur – fetched about $2.3 million.

“The far-reaching aspects of their discovery affect everybody and are only being appreciated now,” said Christie’s auctioneer Francis Wahlgren.

“I think the guy is the greatest living scientist. There are a lot of personalities in history we’d find fault with – but their discoveries transcend human foibles,” Wahlgren added.

The sale of Nobel Prizes is a recent phenomenon, with Watson’s being only the fourth to go on sale – and the first while the recipient is still alive. The medal awarded to Aage Bohr, the son of Niels, in 1975, attracted a winning bid of about $50,000 in 2012. Notably, American writer William Faulkner’s 1950 medal failed to pass the reserve price at an auction last year.

But for Watson, this is not just a chance to acquire money, but also to “re-enter public life.”

“I’ve had a unique life that’s allowed me to do things. I was set back. It was stupid on my part. All you can do is nothing, except hope that people actually know what you are.”

The iconic image of Watson and Crick giving a presentation on DNA in 1953 at Cambridge University.The iconic image of Watson and Crick giving a presentation on DNA in 1953 at Cambridge University.

Despite a long-standing reputation as an outspoken scientist who sometimes professed eccentric views – such as those linking sunlight and libido – Watson’s downfall was swift.

In October 2007, Watson said to the Sunday Times that he was “gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.”

He later waded into even more dangerous territory, suggesting that anecdotal reports said that black employees were less intelligent, and that there were no talented black scientists who could be recruited to work in his laboratory.

While Watson’s racial theories of IQ have some academic support, such as in Richard J. Herrnstein’s and Charles Murray’s controversial book ‘The Bell Curve,’ this remains one of the most contentious areas of scientific research. Following Watson’s crude remarks, most of the scientific community turned on him, accusing him of prejudice.

It is a charge he rejects to this day.

“I am not a racist in a conventional way,” he told the Financial Times.

“I apologize…the [Sunday Times] journalist somehow wrote that I worried about the people in Africa because of their low IQ – and you’re not supposed to say that.”

Daily Show host targets Indians in vain

Comedian John Oliver’s efforts to take down India’s newly elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, has come to naught.

Time magazine in its annual TIME’s Person of the Year 2014 survey has just come up with Narendra Modi as the winner.

Oliver, much tweeted and adored by Cultural Marxists and Boerhaters in South Africa after his efforts to smear Afrikaners as all being white racists and thus deserving of ethnic cleansing, did not hesitate to indulge in a racist diatribe against Indians.

The rising tide of farm killings targeting white Afrikaners, and noted by organisations such as Genocide Watch, must have worried British-born Oliver enough to warrant a whole show justifying the killing spree.

The Prime Minister of India is currently toppling the 2013’s top contestant, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian President, despite Oliver’s best try to make Modi and all Indians look ridiculous.

After Modi quoted the famous Star Wars line, “May the force be with you,” in his speech in Central Park, with Wolverine (aka Hugh Jackman) by his side, Americans were smitten.

Modi had been banned from entering the US in 2005, for purportedly failing to intervene as chief minister of Gujarat state during 2002 riots in which Hindu mobs attacked minority Muslims.

According to the International Religious Freedom Act, which the US Congress passed in 1998, “foreign officials responsible for “severe violations of religious freedom” aren’t eligible for visas. Indian courts have since cleared Hindu-nationalist Modi of wrongdoing.

A recent survey by the National Council of Applied Economic Research and the University of Maryland, United States, spanning 42,000 households has found that 25% of Indians practiced caste untouchability in some form. This, despite the Constitution having banned the practice 64 years ago.

By caste-groups, Brahmins topped the list with 27% admitting to it, followed by non-Brahmin forward castes (25%) followed by other backward classes (33%).

By religions, Hindus were the biggest believers in the system (30%). The findings also found that the practice was most common in the Hindi heartland of the country, with more than 45% of the respondents from Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Bihar owning up to the practice.

‘Non-racial’ puppets get called out

A Black model has been accused by fellow blacks as a ‘rent a black’ and puppet because she was validating a white magazine after they placed her on the cover.

In a litany of tweets, one Bonang Matheba took on Phil Mphela, a black blogger.

Mphela said he would not jump on the non-racial bandwagon to ‘celebrate’ as he did not believe it was worth it.

“White magazines only use people like Bonang on their covers when they need publicity…You are all just puppets including people like Bonang who have essentially become “rent a black” talent.”

In response, Matheba swore at Mphela, telling him ‘o tlo nyela’ (you will shit) for referring to her as a puppet.

“I will not allow you to diss black people, including myself, when we already have to work fucking hard”.

The claim is often made by celebrity blacks, but some in the industry say most are slackers with an inflated sense of entitlement.

Matheba has since deleted the tweets.

 

‘Only trust a white man when he’s dead’

A WhatsApp post has led to the investigation of a police officer in the Pretoria dog unit after 12 white colleagues accused him of hate speech and racism.

Provincial police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini confirmed that Sergeant Hendric Mthimunye was the subject of a grievance process following the post on WhatsApp earlier this month, Rekord East reported.

“Never Trust the White Man, the only Time you Trust Him is when he is Dead.” the post allegedly read.

According to the grievance lodged by his colleagues, Mthimunye’s post was racist and promoted hate speech.

The complaint also stated that it was a police officer’s duty in this country to deliver a service to all citizens, including whites.

“We work with him on a daily basis… We feel that we cannot trust a person who makes extreme racists comments. As members of the police we must be able to trust one another and depend on colleagues to protect us in unthinkable dangerous situations,” the grievance stated.

Dlamini said Mthimunye’s commanding officer was currently involved in a grievance process against the Sergeant.

It was later reported that Mthimunye had defended the post, saying it was a misunderstanding and that it in fact referred to a friend of his with the surname “Mlunga”, which translates to “white man” in Zulu.
Mthimunye said he had been angry with his friend who had owed him money, and refused to repay the debt.

He said the post was not aimed at his white colleagues and that he had never foreseen that it would hurt or upset them.

Whites are a small minority in South Africa but nevertheless subject to extreme racial legislation to keep them out of government jobs, industry and sport.

Being a white farmer in the country is more dangerous than being a soldier in Iraq.

Source:IOL

From America’s black father to accused sexual predator

Bill Cosby has dominated headlines for much of the last month as accusations of sexual assault pile up.

More than a dozen women have accused Cosby, many of whom say he drugged them first.

Their stories paint a starkly different picture of the black father beloved by millions as Dr. Huxtable — the sweet, sweater-wearing dad on the sitcom, “The Cosby Show.”

New York Times columnist David Carr meanwhile has taken a number of writers and mediates — including himself — to task for turning a blind eye to the numerous allegations of sexual assault leveled against Bill Cosby, and he’s already elicited one mea culpa in response.

In addition to admitting his own accountability, Carr called out Ta-Nehisi Coates, who penned a lengthy essay on the comedian in The Atlantic in 2008; Kelefa Sanneh, who wrote a New Yorker profile on Cosby in September; and Mark Whitaker, who wrote an extensive biography on Cosby published just two months ago; noting that they all failed to properly address the accusations, despite the fact that they were “carefully and thoroughly reported” in Philadelphia magazine, People magazine and Today in 2005 and 2006.

“We all have our excuses, but in ignoring these claims, we let down the women who were brave enough to speak out publicly against a powerful entertainer,” Carr wrote in a Monday column. “Mr. Whitaker has said he didn’t want to put anything in the book, which he wrote with Mr. Cosby’s cooperation, that wasn’t confirmed — which of course raises the question of why he wouldn’t have done the work to knock down the accusations or make them stand up. And given that the accusations had already been carefully and thoroughly reported in Philadelphia magazine and elsewhere, any book of the size and scope of Mr. Whitaker’s should have gone there.”

Whitaker took to Twitter on Monday afternoon to respond to Carr’s column, admitting that he should’ve investigated the allegations more thoroughly.

Carr noted that Coates also revisited his Cosby coverage on The Atlantic’s website and admitted that at the time he wrote the piece, he “believed that Bill Cosby was a rapist,” but included only “a brief and limp mention of the accusations against Cosby.” Coates went on to write, “I regret not saying what I thought of the accusations, and then pursuing those thoughts. I regret it because the lack of pursuit puts me in league with people who either looked away, or did not look hard enough. I take it as a personal admonition to always go there, to never flinch, to never look away.”

Sanneh does not seem to be active on Twitter, but appeared on an MSNBC segment over the weekend to discuss the Cosby allegations, telling host Melissa Harris-Perry, “It’s easy to look at the Huxtable family and say ‘oh, that must be what Bill Cosby is like’ … Just because a comedian has politics we agree with, just because a comedian makes work we agree with, doesn’t mean, necessarily, they’re not capable of what Bill Cosby’s accused of.”

Ferguson launches race war

Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadali (D) said of the riots after the grand jury announcement that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not face charges for fatally shooting Michael Brown, “This is St. Louis’s race war. We didn’t have a race war like other cities throughout the U.S. This is our race war.”

Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadali is black. “I have to tell you that there has been systematic racism, institutionally in state government for decades, including my own state party. So what we are looking at right now is a symptom of racism that has been swept under the rug for decades. and I am so glad now that the truth is out, and I’m very grateful to your network for telling the truth in reporting the truth of what’s going to go down in the coming days.

“As it was said earlier today, and because of the systematic racism that we have in our state government, and our state party, and we do not bring the truth to bear, then we will not recover from what we are going on. What we are experiencing right now, and I have to tell you, this is St. Louis’s race war. We didn’t have a race war like other cities throughout the this is our race war. country. and people have to be open, and they have to be honest. and they have to earnest, and they have not been earnest for decades. I know people in my own party, in my own government structure who disregard things that we say and how we feel, and we are not going to allow it anymore,” she added.

A crowd gathered around a car from which the verdict was being broadcast on a stereo. When the decision was announced, Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, who was sitting atop the car, burst into tears and began screaming before being whisked away by supporters.

The crowd erupted in anger, converging on the barricade where police in riot gear were standing. They pushed down the barricade and began pelting police with items, including a bullhorn. Police stood their ground.

As the night when on, at least seven Ferguson-area businesses were set on fire. Several more were hit by looters. Fires were reported at the Fashions R Boutique, Title Max loan center, AutoZone, Walgreen’s, Public Storage, Little Caesars and others.

The county police department is also saying that officers reported heavy automatic gunfire. Police cars were been vandalized and several gunshots were heard on the streets.

A KMOX News vehicle was also damaged while covering protests in south St. Louis.Ferguson Police responded to protesters with smoke and pepper spray.

Protesters insisted it was tear gas. Video shows protesters setting fires and breaking store windows. Protesters were also throwing bottles and rocks at officers.

Video shows protesters setting fires and breaking store windows. Protesters were also throwing bottles and rocks at officers.

Demonstrations are also taking place in a number of large cities across the country, including outside the White House in Washington, DC.

New York protesters are causing havoc to the city’s transport systems and have already taken over three bridges, which have all been shut down.

Despite sub-zero temperatures in the Windy City Chicago, protesters are out in force and have already shut down a major intersection in the city center.

There are reports that protests in the West Coast city of Oakland are beginning to turn violent. They have started to light fires on the city’s main streets, while police are maintaining a heavy and visible presenc

Denying black hair is racist, court hears

Gabriel Aubry made “completely and totally unacceptable” racial slurs against Halle Berry, a court has been told.

The 48-year-old actress, who dated the French-Canadian model between 2005 and 2010, has taken her former lover to court, claiming he straightened the naturally curly hair of their daughter Nahla – who was born in 2008 – and lightened it over the past 12 months.

A source close to Halle also told MailOnline that Gabriel had used racially abusive language towards Halle – claiming he called her the N word.

“Halle kept asking and asking Gabriel about Nahla’s hair and he kept denying it.

“What does this say to a six year old who’s half black? Her father is denying her identity.

“Halle then filed the court papers and Nahla’s curls came back.”

In her testimony to the court, Halle said: “I strongly feel that Gabriel’s same underlying attitude is at the root in the changes, which only he could have been causing to our daughter’s hair.”

Since splitting from Gabriel, Halle has married French film actor Olivier Martinez, with whom she has a son, Maceo.

Source:BANG Showbiz and IOL

Politics of white destruction: Nevada speaker steps down

Nevada Assemblyman Ira Hansen will not take the State Assembly speaker position next year, he announced Sunday. The speaker-elect has faced criticism for a history of bigoted sentiments he expressed in a regular local newspaper column.

Hansen, a two-term assemblyman, first told his fellow Republicans in an email that he would not assume speaker duties, according to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston.

“Politics of personal destruction win,” Hansen wrote to his caucus. “I need to step down. I hope that you all know that the Ira that you have known through these years and weeks is the real Ira and not what the media is painting me to be. You are a great group that can hopefully do great things and my staying will harm the caucus. I wish you all the best. Thanks for hanging tough through these difficult past days. If this were just about ‘me’ I would fight this out to the bitter end, but it is going to harm all of you.”

For 13 years, Hansen wrote a column in the Sparks Tribune, a small local newspaper. The Reno News and Review reviewed his columns and published last week a number of racist, misogynistic and homophobic portions.

“The lack of gratitude and the deliberate ignoring of white history in relation to eliminating slavery is a disgrace that Negro leaders should own up to,” Hansen wrote in one instance.

“Today, when Army men look at women in the ranks with ‘longing in their eyes’ it very well may constitute ’sexual harassment,'” he wrote in another column. “The truth is, women do not belong in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps, except in certain limited fields.”

Hansen, a denier of evolution, also consistently linked homosexuality to pedophilia and claimed he proudly kept a Confederate flag in his home “in memory of a great cause and my brave ancestors who fought for that cause.”

Last week, Hansen became the target of intense scrutiny over the history of columns, which became available online only recently.

“No Nevada official has ever given the public a more detailed blueprint to his thinking than Hansen,” The Reno News and Review wrote. “For many years, starting on May 11, 1994, he wrote a column for the Sparks Tribune. The Tribune did not go online until relatively recently, so access to and knowledge of most of the Hansen columns has not been easy. We reviewed every column on microfilm for this piece, covering a period of 13 years, plus a few that did make it onto the Trib website. In these columns, his viewpoint evolved very little. In fact, some columns ran unchanged time and again as the years passed.”

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a fellow Republican, denounced Hansen’s writings.

“I wholeheartedly disagree with Assemblyman Hansen’s past public statements on race, religion, gender and sexual orientation. This abhorrent kind of speech is unacceptable,” Sandoval said.

Hansen released a statement later Sunday that confirmed his resignation. He insisted that he was the victim of a media-led “character assassination.”

“For the greater good of the State of Nevada and the cause I support it is necessary for me to withdraw as Speaker Designee. The tens of thousands of people who both read my columns and listened to my radio shows through two decades in the media know this has been a carefully orchestrated attack to remove a conservative Republican from a major leadership role in State government. The deliberate character assassination and the politics of personal destruction have totally distorted my views and record. Ultimately, this whole attack has very little to do with my views. The powers that be are planning a massive, more than one billion dollar, tax increase and I stood in the way as Speaker. I have already served two terms as an Assemblyman without any of these vicious attacks. It was only when I had risen to leadership that this smear campaign occurred. That is the real reason for this and it is vital the public understands that.”

Whether Hansen will remain in his Assembly seat is unclear, according to Ralston.

ANCYL calls off Hofmeyr protest

Following a dubious campaign to brand Steve Hofmeyr as a “racist” and prohibiting him from performing at the Afrikaans is Groot music concert at the Ned Geref Kerk in Moreleta Park, his enemies have retreated.

The ANC Youth League Greater Tshwane region has postponed its planned action after the city turned down its application to stage a protest at the venue, as the application was not submitted within the prescribed seven working days.

The youth league had called on Afrikaners to reject and isolate the popular musician, saying he was spreading “racism”.

Hofmeyr has been in the spotlight following a tweet that reminded some of a shared racial past: “Sorry to offend but in my books blacks were the architects of apartheid. Go figure.” The popular singer was then accused of being “racist” for stating the obvious.

Almost 60% of blacks voted for homelands during apartheid, before the ANC launched a terror campaign funded from Sweden and Britain to overthrow the government and marginalise whites.

Ironically there are currently two homeland leaders in the regime’s parliament representing homeland constituencies, but it seems that some would rather not have such matters out in the open, hence the attacks on Hofmeyr.

The youth league’s branch spokesperson Justin de Swardt, the only white member, meanwhile branded all Afrikaners as “racists”.

He said it would have been counter-productive to nation-building if there was a physical confrontation between ANC members and the “racists”, a synonym for Afrikaners, if the protest action was held unlawfully.

De Swardt continued his ignorant and malicious verbal attacks against Hofmeyr: “It is extremely abnormal for a public figure to be making statements such as those in the democratic era,” he said. “To say blacks were the architects of apartheid is not only ignorant but highly insensitive.”

Hofmeyr is performing at the concert series which ends this weekend before moving to Cape Town.

After the youth league signalled its intention to protest, the Rubenstein Group – residents of nearby Rubenstein Avenue – indicated it would challenge the matter in court should the application be approved.

The black youth league planned to molest 7 000 white people at the concert venue, to stop the “racists”, a sure formula for disaster.

Afrikaans is Groot spokesman Barnard Beukman welcomed the situation where patrons could attend the gigs in a relaxed atmosphere.

When negligence becomes racism

Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) says claims that it had falsely accused two of its white managers of racism, cannot be discussed.

“ATNS is in no position to discuss the merits of internal disciplinary processes – currently under way – against Mr Johnny Smit and Mr Leon Altree,” it said in a statement.

“Even if we had an iota of desire to do so… the ‘sub judice’ rule applies.

“We can nonetheless confirm that the two individuals are facing very serious allegations which might lead to their dismissal,” ATNS told Sapa.

Smit and Altree face charges of racism related to separate incidents in which air traffic controllers allegedly jeopardised air safety with inappropriate air traffic instructions.

Smit, an air traffic controller manager, and Altree, an acting operational manager, recommended disciplinary action against four black air traffic controllers.

But instead of taking disciplinary action against the black air traffic controllers, ATNS charged Smith and Altree with racism and suspended them.

One of the charges involved an incident at the OR Tambo International Airport in June 2013, when an the air traffic controller allegedly almost caused a fatal plane crash by giving a Boeing 777-200 permission to take off while allowing a smaller plane to land on the same runway at the same time.

Smit and Altree recommended that disciplinary steps by taken against the black controller, but are now accused of double standards.

ATNS says the two whites are racist because they make different recommendations regarding violations according to race while ignoring the seriousness of respective violations.

ATNS said it wanted to put it on the record that all aviation-related safety incidents were reported to and investigated by the SA Civil Aviation Authority.

“We would also like to assure the general public/passengers that at no stage were their lives and/or safety compromised [in the incidents],” it said.

“After the conclusion of the aforementioned disciplinary process against Messrs Smit and Altree, ATNS will be in a position to comment on any matter that may need clarity.”

Race realism in South Africa

By Johann Theron

Racial laws in South Africa were derived in principle from American Minority-Law despite South African blacks being a dominant majority.

The SA Effect

Thabo Mbeki implemented the current racial classification in South Africa where biological superiority is accorded to black Africans being the “source” of all DNA origins. The lesser races identified in the SA context as Indian, Colored and lastly Whites, are penalized regarding privileges in terms of Affirmative Action and Broad Based Black Empowerment.

It means that whiteness carries a severe penalty.

The famous Mbeki trick however, is that race “identification” is not made by somebody other than the self. In other words, any individual can identify his/her own preference of race regardless of the actual medical opinion.

After the ANC won the 1994 elections most companies forced their white employees to re-educate by taking a one day “culture course”. This was a mistake since it was actually the blacks needing education.

Soon afterwards “transition” courses were implemented for black pre-school and for pre-university candidates. In addition companies have black ABET (adult based education training) for literacy. The last training (not yet provided) is Cultural Bridge Training to help the average black employee with his/her safe daily cross-over from a tribal home to a Western workplace. (Dual-culture)

This unsafe activity has only been mitigated in a limited manner and requires more attention. For example schools implemented “breakfast” for school kids and after-school supervision classes, companies allowed continuation of special toilets for “workers” to come in, have breakfast and change clothing vice versa in afternoons (with showers). This means that kids do not get food or supervision at home and that worker’s wives do not safely prepare their husbands for work.

In fact, the migratory system has led to unsafe housing, diseased relationships and general populist conduct including illegal conduct such as “dual production lines” i.e. industrialized production theft in companies as well as aggressive labor members and aggressive labor strikes as demonstrated at Marikana with the mass shooting by the police.

Recent farm employee strikes in the Western Cape Province were actually classified as “unrest” i.e. sabotage is widespread.

Labor Unions in South Africa are in an alliance with Government and unfairly exert pressure on companies anyway they can. It is unfortunately a managerial duty to get “realistic” in order to continue making profits.

Demographic Effects

A good example is a suburban home having an outside toilet. The toilet is not marked “for blacks”, but 90% of sub-contractors using it will be black. Experience shows that these toilets must be cleaned and maintained with higher frequency than those inside the house – as is the case in shopping malls.

Racism and Hate speech

It is forbidden to treat a person as inferior because of his “race”. This means if a person who has classified “himself” as white, subsequently falsely identifies a person acting in an inferior manner, “as black” who has also classified “himself” as black, then and only then the first person is a racist and should be punished according to the law.

In other words four conditions have to be confirmed before a charge of racism can be entertained. The two people must each have identified “themselves” as opposing races and then the first person must be proven to have identified the second to be the same “race” that he classified himself as (that day). Then the inferiority aspect must be proven as well. It will only work if identification of the “inferior” conduct can be proven to have in fact been superior. If I say that you are a black idiot for not passing exams (and it is true) then it is not racism, but more hate speech.

Recent legal cases regarding Hate speech such as the song “To Kill a Farmer” was not treated as racism, but as hate speech – finding that the song should not be sung.

False accusations can lead to charges of Crimen injuria /Libel

One can imagine that an outburst of racism can affect reputations and can also lead to loss of income such as was now found in the entertainment industry. These charges, as well as the outcome activities, should really follow a sort of conflict management process where it ends in a form of re-conciliation.

A racism charge can never be brought to a group such as “management” – it must be individualized.

Careful analysis is required of the individuals involved and their agenda’s where the charges are generally found to be incorrect and even “leading”, but the “conflict” is unresolved requiring emotional support. Some success has been evident where agreeable values were developed and employees encouraged to adopt, benefitting compan(ies). Unnecessary charges of racism should be avoided because it could escalate to libel cases, dragging out any chance of deflating emotions.

Any employees charged with racism, can respond by treating it as libelous from “management” – putting management on the spot. But the same management cannot be charged by a victim unless the “offender” has been convicted. South African Law is interesting – unless one is reminded that the CEO is likely to be black.

Race Realism

It is medically a fact that races exist and people should be encouraged to understand that. In other words it is not really something you can construct in your own mind being something today and something different tomorrow.

Otherwise companies cannot embrace the “productive” diversity which race (admittedly a small part of diversity) present in a company values-based culture. This requires acknowledgement of race identification and conflict followed by realism of economic response.