Mulder: I am no racist

[Apache]

Johannesburg - Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder has defended his controversial remarks on land in an interview with the Sunday Independent.

Mulder, who is also the deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said recently that there was sufficient evidence that there were no Bantu-speaking people in the Western Cape and north-western Cape, which constitute 40% of South Africa's land.

Mulder told the weekly he was being misunderstood by his critics.

He said he was reacting to arguments that white people had stolen land.

"Technically, no one can lay claim to land in SA. We have got a complicated system. Nobody can say this is my total land," he said.

Mulder said his argument came from history.

"When whites arrived (in the Western Cape), there were Khoi people, not blacks. In the Western Cape, brown people are complaining that they are not getting promotion in the Department of Correctional Services, but the ANC is using the land question," he said.

He defended his use of the word "Bantu", saying it was an internationally recognised word, and said he was angry about being called a racist.

"How would I have accepted the (government) post if I was racist? I get really angry about that."

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Mulder-I-am-no-racist-20120226

 

[STS]

+1 to Mulder

 

[Pooky]

Did someone call him racist?

 

[Picard]

If the Arabs can live in Londonistan then we can live in Africa.

 

[TheHiveMind]

Here's a tip.

"I am not a racist" is always a counter productive statement, because you play into a self defeating frame.

 

[Fudzy]

He's not a racist, he just doesn't like blacks.

Ps. Before anyone has a frothy, the above is line from Za News.

 

[Picard]

He's not a racist, he just doesn't like blacks.

If he like all other races except blacks, where does the problem lay?

 

[Fudzy]

If he like all other races except blacks, where does the problem lay?

Racist/racism/descrimination/race cards/apartheid blame etc etc etc are an obvious issue in our society. While Mulder might not be a racist, he is too intelligent NOT to have realised what he said would have riled people up in the current very sensitive climate. Going on the defensive with "I'm not a racist" was not the best way to try calm things.

 

[Bizkit87]

Malema: "Whites are criminals, we must kill them and take their land" Found not guilty of racism
Zuma: "Bring my machine gun, kill the boer" - No racism, part of his culture
Mulder: "Black people weren't present in WC when whites arrived [FACT]'' - biggest racist in the country

Ja nè, all people are equal, some more than others...

 

[Apache]

Malema: "Whites are criminals, we must kill them and take their land" Found not guilty of racism
Zuma: "Bring my machine gun, kill the boer" - No racism, part of his culture
Mulder: "Black people weren't present in WC when whites arrived [FACT]'' - biggest racist in the country

Ja nè, all people are equal, some more than others...

The problem is that the ANC sees all people who are not white as black. Therein lies the challenge.

 

[Fudzy]

The problem is that the ANC sees all people who are not white as black. Therein lies the challenge.

Well that really is apartheid's fault. The created the classification of whites vs. every other race. Sadly the ANC are just keeping that mentality going.

 

[Apache]

Well that really is apartheid's fault. The created the classification of whites vs. every other race. Sadly the ANC are just keeping that mentality going.

Well the apartheid gov used many classifications. The ANC used the "you are white or black" routine to galvanize majority support.

 

[TJ99]

Well that really is apartheid's fault. The created the classification of whites vs. every other race. Sadly the ANC are just keeping that mentality going.

Um, no. Apartheid classified Whites, Blacks, Coloureds and Indians completely separately. This new nonsense of calling everyone from coloureds to Chinese people "black" is purely an ANC thing.

 

[Fudzy]

The ANC used the "you are white or black" routine to galvanize majority support.

Yep. Something other political parties fail at doing miserably.

 

[Fudzy]

Um, no. Apartheid classified Whites, Blacks, Coloureds and Indians completely separately. This new nonsense of calling everyone from coloureds to Chinese people "black" is purely an ANC thing.

So did Coloureds and Indians get preferential treatment over blacks?

 

[Apache]

So did Coloureds and Indians get preferential treatment over blacks?

Under apartheid they did I believe. So they were unfairly advantaged over black people. Hmmm i think we need to rectify that

 

[TJ99]

So did Coloureds and Indians get preferential treatment over blacks?

Some would say that they did. Point is, each race as classified by the government in those days had their own areas.

 

[Fudzy]

Some would say that they did. Point is, each race as classified by the government in those days had their own areas.

Yeah you're right actually, found this map crica 1979:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_Africa_racial_map,_1979.gif

Perhaps Mulder was looking at this map when he came up with the statement.

 

[TJ99]

I doubt it, that map is from 40 years ago, he was talking about long before that.

 

[grok]

Malema: "Whites are criminals, we must kill them and take their land" Found not guilty of racism
Zuma: "Bring my machine gun, kill the boer" - No racism, part of his culture
Mulder: "Black people weren't present in WC when whites arrived [FACT]'' - biggest racist in the country

Ja nè, all people are equal, some more than others...

Only white people can be racist didn't you know?
Africa for africans despite begin born of this land.