Racist fisticuffs are breaking out everywhere like the pimples on a young man’s greasy teenage skin. If it wasn’t enough when Kuli had a go at the coloureds, now the big guns have greased up their bodies with baby oil and are basically free wrestling with each other in the media.
The ugly werewolf itself, racism, has cross-bred with an Irish Wolfhound and gotten rabies from Lenasia’s strays to culminate into one of the most racist weeks we have had of late. Early March 2011 will be remembered for four names: Jimmy, Kuli, Trevor, and Max.
Yesterday saw ANC Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga have a go at infamously controversial journalist and liberal paragon of free speech, Max du Preez. He’s written a letter to the Press Ombudsman protesting against the Cape Times and columnist Max Du Preez’s piece published on Tuesday which he’s called a “racially derogatory article.”
Max has made this one difficult to defend:
This rootlessness of most coloured people, this sense they got over centuries of not belonging, is the only reason why gangsterism is so rife in that community. Gangsterism is almost always yearning for a tribe, an attempt to belong
He was supposedly using the metaphorical language to relate how many Africans retain aspects of ‘their roots’ and that coloured people wanted something similar.
Earlier in the week the Black Management Forum (BMF) reacted with what is described as “utter shock and disappointment” to the open letter that Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel sent to government spokesman Jimmy Manyi.
Basically Trev had a go at a comment that Jimmy made in March last year about there being an ‘over supply’ of coloured people in the Western Cape. Not a cool vibe, Jimmy. Dis nie hoe ons roll nie.
Anyway, short of weeing in his pants a little, Trevor got very hectique, as we like to say, and put this to Jimmy about the war against apartheid:
By the way, what did YOU do in the war, Jimmy?
Very hectique indeed. And this is how he ended his letter off, clearly hitting a nerve was Jimmy:
I know now who Nelson Mandela was talking about when he said from the dock that he had fought against white domination and that he had fought against black domination. Jimmy, he was talking about fighting against people like you.
Heavy. Not for a while still will we be one with each other and frolicking in democratic bliss, it seems.
But maybe it’s good we get it all out once and for good.
[Image via Daily Maverick]
