Barnes under fire for mocking Angie

OrbitalDawn said:
I'm not saying black people should endure racism or callousness. I'm saying we need to end the cycle, and I don't think perpetuating this idea that black people cannot be racist is helping. It's a different form of bigotry, as it treats black people like children that shouldn't be held accountable if they do something wrong.
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This guy gets it.
 
i don't see it as mocking, but should be more understandable of what someone's first language may be.

poor afrikaaners are mocked daily.
 
STS said:
I counter that with that many of us are angry people, regardless of race, gender, culture and creed.

I think you should drop this view that a certain group has to show restraint - we are all one in the same. we face different challenges but there are groups that face greater challenges to us, an example is that we have to deal with an idiot or two while other africans have to dodge bullets and avoid some of the most horrible diseases known to man.

where black men are getting angry, women are getting angry too. where white farmers are getting angry, the muslim community is getting angry too.

the point is to not "get over it", but instead of making this a racism issue or a feminist issue, make it a humanist issue - we are all the same.

if there are two idiots fighting in the news over racism and flinging racial insults, it's not about who says what or who is the bigger culprit, it's about seeing what their fight and their arguments are - they're two deluded people fighting over trivial crap.

let's help everyone and see everyone as equal, they at least deserve the chance to prove themselves to us as individuals
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Thank you for proving my point. It is by no means trivial. The sooner we all take racism with the seriousness it deserves from all sides the batter. Instead when there is a racist incident all i here from some quarters is that it is "trivial", "move on" etc. I am a firm believer that white people in general are not racist, but their response to is betrays a lack of understanding and empathy towards black people's concerns.
 
XennoX said:
My stance on this is zero tolerance for any form of racial discrimination, whether private or institutionalised. When someone discriminates against someone based on race they should be taken to task, I don't care which way the pendulum swings. When the state decides to discriminate against a group of people based on their race they should be taken to task, I don't care which way the pendulum swings. Our constitution is unary, thus the hypocrisy present within our society is bull****.
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BEE is a necessary evil that is there to balance the ill effects of the past. It is ultimately unsustainable to have the majority occupying the bottom end of the economic scale though no fault of their own. Also BEE is not a meant to be punitive against white people. He should be equal in all regards. But your point proves my point in the sense that you are not concerned about the abject poverty that black people find themselves in, to the extent that you are against any measures put in place to address this imbalance.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
I'm not saying black people should endure racism or callousness. I'm saying we need to end the cycle, and I don't think perpetuating this idea that black people cannot be racist is helping. It's a different form of bigotry, as it treats black people like children that shouldn't be held accountable if they do something wrong.
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I do not subscribe to the idea that black people cannot be racist. I don't know what gave you that impression. Why don't those who started the cycle end it. The racism your see from black quarters is in retaliation to being constantly undermined, and their concerns being dismissed out of hand.
 
ngwe23 said:
snipped the garbage

. I am a firm believer that [-]white[/-]black people in general are not racist, but their response to is betrays a lack of understanding and empathy towards [-]black[/-]white people's concerns.
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See how that reads? Goes both ways. Catch a wake up! For you it's about black and white as usual. For me it's about the incompetence and corrupt ANC. All of them white and/or black!
 
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