Friday, February 29, 2008

Pissing Racism




Zapiro puts the University of the Free State episode in context.

The Mail & Guardian reports that the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), an Afrikaner rightwing political party, has been busy stoking the flames of anti-integration sentiment at the UFS and other universities in South Africa.

The FF+, of course, denies this 'allegation' even though its leader, Pieter Mulder, led an anti-integration march on campus last July.

Why am I not surprised that some of the volk are still grasping at apartheid delusions?

Onward!

***Update(March 1)***
White members of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) have offered an apology for the behaviour of the Free State Four.

Party MP Cheryllyn Dudley said:"Our apologies are heartfelt, yet, more than that, we want to be part of making a society where just reparations are made and we can all live in harmony."

"We are proud to be a part of the new South Africa and we acknowledge with gratitude that we are able to associate freely in our nation today."

This is the right thing to do.

The circumstances of our post-apartheid reality requires that whiteness recognize and reject the indignity and racism that occured at the UFS.

Good on you ACDP!

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