Yesterday it felt like the internet had a good day! We woke up to be informed that someone had started a crowdfunder on YouCare to raise money to pay the fine that Penny Sparrow received earlier this year. For being racist. The fundraiser didn't even try sugarcoat what she'd done or suggest she'd been wronged. It was merely to raise money to pay for the fine for her racism... But what a great day it [...]
i don't get it, you know... i really don't understand how day in, day out you seem to make everything about you and by doing that you lose sight of everything that this thing could have brought to you in terms of helping you grow, to learn, to change to unlearn, to discern, to know and finally understand [breathe.] it's as if by making it about you you completely make it not about [...]
i was chatting to a black grade six girl yesterday afternoon as we struggled through some Afrikaans homework together about Vasco de Gama. Before we got started with the homework, i asked her what her name is. She said it for me, followed by the words, "It's very hard." She then added her nickname and the english name her sister gave her. i said her name back to her with a question mark intonation at the [...]
In Part I titled 'Ways in which white people are better than black people [part I]' i drew up a list of all the ways i think white people are better than black people. Or rather i left a big chunk of empty space. Because we are not better. We are different. Although you wouldn't think so if you read many of the comments in my blog or generally online. There is a fairly significant portion [...]
THE END [For Part II, which is a little wordier, click here]
Wow. That is all. The Twitterer brought one to me today. Here's the story. This morning i am driving my mother-in-law to hospital and i see the woman in my read view mirror speaking on her phone while driving. i give her the polite "hey lady put your phone down" hand signal and she gestures angrily at me and carries on talking. 5km down the road after turning two 90 degree corners and she is [...]
...is possibly one of the most untruthful sentences we can utter. In fact the word "but" following the phrase "I'm not racist" is pretty much always a strong indicator that the very next thing said is going to reek of racism. This post is in response to the status that Matthew Theunissen posted on Facebook the other day in response to the announcement by Fikile Mbalula's ban on South African sports associations hosting major international events. [...]
An internet troll is like someone in South Africa who supported apartheid: we know they must exist and yet no-one ever admits to being one. i'm pretty sure no-one i know personally is a troll, right? i don't hang with those kinds of people. You too i'm sure? But i've also never met anyone who personally knows a troll: "Oh yeah, my friend Brian, he's a total internet troll" Yet we can watch something like [...]
It begins with a cartoon posted on Facebook: And before long someone jumping on with a "But Zuma orchestrated the Red Wedding, is responsible for ongoing Adam Sandler movies and killed all the unicorns!" To which I responded with: Racism 101: There is a scenario in which we can comfortably say that Jacob Zuma has not been a great leader in many respects AND also see that there is something in ourselves which needs to [...]
Are you even kidding me? Is that really their logo.? And if it really is true that 'Tomorrow starts today', don't you think it would be the littlest bit gentlemanly to add the bit about 'oh and just in case you weren't aware Today starts three months from Wednesday'? If i sound a little bit angry and frustrated, it's just because i'm toning down the anger and frustration a whole lot. Since end 2015 i [...]
