I have had just about enough of theses endless cries of ‘racism’ that are being bandied around at every opportunity, not just in Britain, but around the world. While some are legitimate and provide cause for concern, others are trivial in the extreme. What they all share in common, however, is that they are white on black attacks, whether verbal or physical and that they are being pursued with unmitigated vigour by the law and the press. The reason I am so angry is that many cases are as I said, trivial in the extreme while at the same time similar as well as much, much worse examples of black on white attacks are ignored.
Let me provide some examples.
The case of a South African teacher in New York came to my attention over the weekend. Barry Sirmon, who had fled South Africa during the apartheid years, taught for 11 years at the very liberal, Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Manhattan. Renowned for his jokes the purpose of which was to make fun of stereotypes and thereby destroy them, he was popular with most students and teachers. In October, a couple of black kids joined the class. Sirmon made the obviously ironic remark that he might have trouble telling them apart. It was ironic because though both ‘black’, they were of very different shades. The comment was reported and Sirmon was asked to resign. He refused saying he done nothing wrong and was subsequently fired.
The two big stories in England are very different, but the both rankle.
The sheer stupidity of the John Terry case defies belief. I don’t really care whether Terry used the word black when he called Anton Ferdinand a ‘something c**t’. That Ferdinand or anybody else should take offence at the adjective rather than the noun is mind boggling. It is bad enough that he should take offence at all. Insults are bandied around the sports field all the time. Footballers make mistakes. They know the laws of the game and that for example a handball or other foul inside the box leads to a penalty. Yet these offences are committed, as are fouls elsewhere on the field. In most cases they do not deliberately set to commit the offence, rather they occur in the heat of the moment. Football authorities know this and thus unless it is deemed deliberate or cynical, no further action is taken. Even when a yellow or red card is shown, the police do not get involved. Watching a press conference last night I was horrified by the way Terry was banned from making any comment on the subject. I cannot help feeling that if I was him, I would have let rip and bugger the consequences.
The more serious case is that of Stephen Lawrence which has reared its ugly head again. I recognise that the police very likely did screw up the investigation, deliberately or otherwise and that those suspects were probably guilty, but the endless attention given to one racist murder, white on black, as against the long list of black on white murders, really angers me. The investigation into police practices at the time, found them to be ‘institutionally racist’. Fine, they must clean up their act and move on. But the efforts to find those suspects, who have already been found not guilty continues with an intensity and publicity not shown to other cases. If this coverage is supposed to make me more sympathetic to Lawrence, or his parents or British blacks in general, it is not. It is having the reverse effect. I don’t suppose that matters too much as I do not live there, but I suspect that it is having the same effect on other white people too and is therefore backfiring. That pisses me off too.
Then there was the ridiculous case of Tiger Woods’s former caddy, who referred to his former employer’s black arse. The outrage that this comment caused around the world just goes to show how pathetic society as become.
In this country we have the ANC Youth Leader, Julius Malema. Most of you will have heard of him. He is currently suspended following an internal investigation by the ANC in which he was found to have brought the party into disrepute following his advocating regime change in Botswana. In case you do not know, the president of that country is of mixed race. His father was Sir Sretese Khama, the country’s first president, while his mother was an English woman, Ruth Williams. Ian Khama is one of the few SADC leaders to openly criticise bad leadership inAfrica, especially that of Robert Mugabe. By default, therefore, he is not a friend of Julius Malema.
However, further to those charges were charges of racism. Malema has, at a public forum, accused all whites of being criminals. He has called Helen Zille, leader of the opposition, a cockroach and implied that she slept with all the male members of her shadow cabinet. He continues to sing the song, ‘Kill the Boer’. He swore at and racially abused a white BBC journalist. There is no question that he said those things, but strangely he was found not guilty of being a racist. Yet, everyday we read of whites who have to resign from their jobs for using mild expletives. A popular sports presenter was fired recently because he referred, in private, to a black colleague who refused to repay a large debt, as a ‘kaffir’. Our friend Julius Malema, recently referred to Indians as ‘makula’ which is the Khosa word for ‘coolies’. I have very little doubt that he will wriggle out of this one.
Some years ago, the world was outraged by the case of 3 white Texans who dragged to death, behind their vehicle, an elderly black vagrant. It was a truly horrible murder and those men deserved their punishment. One has already been executed, one is on death row and third is in for life. It was not just Texas or the US that was horrified by this event, it was the whole world. Murder of this nature is shocking.
So can somebody please tell me why nobody gives a rat’s arse to the racial murders that amount to genocide, that is taking place in South Africa. Please look at this article and tell me what you think about it and what needs to be done.
Boadicea's Chariot 
For a course I am currently taking I wrote a short paper on race and race relations in South Africa which resulted in my receiving a public rebuke from the instructor for not being “balanced” enough. I said much of what you said, but within the tight limits of San Francisco political correctness.
Hi Christoper, perhaps you could forward that document to your professor.
Or if you do not want to do that, let me have his/her/its email address and I will send it.
Sipu: she has already read it and she was the one who rebuked me in front of class. Still, she gave me top marks for it, although she basically warned me off writing anything like that again.
It’s a bit long so I haven’t posted it here, but will do so if anyone is interested.
I am not talking about your work, I am talking about the document at the bottom of my Post, the link entitled Genocide? Have you read it? If so I am surprised by your failure to comment on it.
Please do post your article, I would like to read it. But read the link first.
Sipu: I just finished vomiting. I seriously couldn’t stomach it. Despite that kerfuffle I actually like the professor and get on quite well with her. Thus, I will not forward it to her nor will I give you her contact details. She doesn’t need to see that as she has, in all fairness, brought up the amount of violence in South Africa.
I am entirely in support of your fed-up-ness, Sipu.
What also irks me is that many people – including one Charioteer – see racism in everything including cultural differences.
I grew up in Kenya in the 1950’s when the white man was master, so my views are ‘coloured’ by my background and are invalid in today’s political climate, which I abhor. Well said, Sipu.
Sipu I do lean towards most of what you say. I suspect the British Government is shit-scared of a racist backlash here in the UK and turn a blind eye to the imbalance here, finding t expeditious to use attacks by whites on blacks to show their condemnation for such criminality .As for John Terry, it was reported that a member of the public had overheard the comment. I might say “so what”. As you say, that sort of language is common on any football field. It is not racist. “Black” before “c**t” has a certain edge to it! I find it hard to understand why or how Anton Ferdinand has come to express his complaints over something he himself never heard. God know much shite is spoken of each of us behind our backs. And in the Terry example, even were it said face to face, it is said in the heat of the battle, it is just hot steam. When I have stood at Hampden Park, Glasgow and been chanted at as an “English c**t ” it is not that I am hated, It is that the Scottish football supporters chose to caricature me as an idiot. But at half time, in the middle of the Scotland England match, the same people would offer me a scotch – “get that down your throat you English bastard!”
I suspect Ferdinand has been ill advised, but by whom?.
PS Yes I viewed the pictures which show such violence and hatred beyond my comprehension. What is it that drives anyone to such vicious and brutal killings? Even an animal would not kill in this fashion. What is the mindset that can behave like this? It is shocking and I am numbed by such pictures.
Sipu.
The term “racist” in its modern usage has become trivialised and almost meaningless. Murder, rape and the like are obscenities whatever the colour or race of the perpetrators or victims.
The pictures are shocking, but since I have no idea of the numbers, I don’t know if your description of “genocide” is accurate.
Good blog Sipu….from the heart.
In my view the whole issue of ‘racism’ has become a massive multi million pound industry who’s income is vigerously defended by those who gain the most from it, politicians, lawyers and activists. It’s also a one way street in that it’s only white against black, it’s not a crime to be called ‘whitey.’
Because of the way the law is skewed by shyster lawyers looking for the next highly paid ‘outrage,’ most police forces in the UK are terrified of having the race card played against them and take the line of least resistance when it comes to race. Perhaps someone can explain why ‘Operation Trident’ which investigates black on black crime is allowed to continue, it sounds a bit racisit to me, why is there no unit investigating white on white crime?
There is no doubt that discrimination against people simply because of their colour, race, sexual preference, or gender was endemic – and it was wrong.
However, the legislation has enabled those who felt they were discriminated against to use the law to discriminate against others. I well remember the day the anti-colour legislation was passed in the UK. I had just found a parking space, when a huge coloured guy drew up beside me and told me that he wanted my parking space. I grinned and said “Tough Luck”. OK, he was joking (I think) when he said “I’ll have you under the new discrimination laws” – but it’s gone beyond a joke and I’m not so sure he wouldn’t, now, have tried his case in court….
Even worse – it is now assumed that White, Anglo-Saxon, Heterosexual Males (or people with any one or two of those characteristics) are not only automatically guilty of racism, sexism or homophobia but are also the only people who can be guilty of those ‘offences’. In exactly the same way, it is assumed that Domestic Violence is only perpetrated by men against women.
By extending the original, well-intentioned laws to include every trifling incident, all the ‘ism’ and ‘phobia’ words have lost their meaning. The trivial offences carry as much stigma as the more serious. When I read of a six-year old in trouble and having to be counselled because he called another child ‘a little monkey’ I despair… What are we coming to when a six-year old is ‘convicted’ of using words that many of us have used to our own children?
The West has lost its self-confidence that it knows best – perhaps not such a Bad Thing! But it has replaced that self-confidence with a sense of guilt the size of the Atlantic Ocean – definitely a Bad Idea. You, I and many others are tired of being told that only we can be sinners. Unfortunately, Governments take longer to reflect the opinions of the likes of us. Until they do, they will continue to ignore the fact that discrimination works two ways.
I only opened your document – I’ve seen some of those pictures before – and I didn’t look further.
Thanks for your comment and support.
Christopher, I disagree with you on your reasons for not showing it to your professor. We are constantly reminded of the Holocaust precisely by such shocking pictures. Saying ‘x number of people were killed’ is one thing. Showing graphic evidence is quite another. Just because you like her does not mean that she should be spared knowing exactly what is going on in this country. In fact the contrary is true. You should show it to her because you respect her. You think it might offend her. Imagine how the victims and their families felt/feel.
Bearsy, I think some people like to present an alternative view just for the sake of balance, even if it is not a view they actually hold themselves. But maybe I am wrong.
Zen, the same applies to this part of the world. Our opinions are automatically deemed worthless because of our history. And yet it is we who have more experience and knowledge of the subject than most.
Papag, I could not agree with you more. The same is true of the Holocaust Industry. People careers depend on it.
Araminta, How bloody dare you offer such a trivial response? Did you see those pictures?
There are at least 3,500 reported murders like this since the mid 90s. The number is almost certainly much higher, but as the police refuse to release specifics information is gathered informally. The victims are almost all white farming families, mostly of Afrikaans origin. They are being targeted and terrorised in order that they vacate their land, or simply just to kill them. The government refuses to acknowledge that it is anything more than regular burglary and robbery. The very nature of the killings indicates that it something far more sinister. The level of violence indicates orchestrated terror. Thousands of farmers have been chased off the land. There are reckoned to be 40,000 white farmers in the country. Julius Malema and his minions sing ‘Kill the Boer’ and the ruling ANC wishes to challenge a high court ruling that this constitutes hate speech. Do you really want to tell me that this is not genocide.
Apart from those killed, thousands have been severely injured, having lost limbs in frenzied attacks. Whites are arrested in and shoved into overcrowded prisons where they are gang-raped.
It happens in the city too. I personally know of one woman who scalded to death with boiling water. The took the electric kettle and boiled water over and over, pouring it all over her, down her throat etc til eventually she died.
Please Araminta, take off your prim, rose-tinted glasses and face the fact that these people are evil animals and are being encouraged to commit their crimes by a government who wants all whites to be eradicated from Africa. And while you are about it, tell other people what is going on here. Stop defending or making excuses for the bastards. Every time anyone mentions the word racism, you just point them to this document and let them see for themselves what real racism is.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Sorry, OMG, it was your comment about the Race Industry.
It was not a trivial response, Sipu. It was an attempt to find out more. The document I downloaded had just one photograph and no background information whatsoever!
Thank you Boadicea for your response. I agree that the legislation had been hijacked. But governments need to do something quickly, I believe, otherwise it is going to back fire. I see people, increasingly becoming less tolerant of their black counterparts. Not just here, but in the UK too. People who have grown up in liberal and multicultural societies, who should have no reason, other than their own experience to feel prejudice towards black people, (and it is mostly blacks, rather than Asians, Orientals or other races,) are becoming increasingly antagonistic and are exhibiting racist attitudes. At some point, the worm will turn and it wont be pretty.
As for the photographs, I don’t apologise for showing them again. I think it is important that people see just how awful they truly are and that they do show them to other people to make them realise what is happening here. Prim, middle-class people from Henley are inclined to sniff at such displays of emotion because it does not fit in with their preferred ideals of what constitutes acceptable prejudice.
I hope you and everybody else will show them to as many people as possible.
Araminta, if that is the case, I apologise. The document has numerous photographs each more appalling than the one before. Perhaps your firewall prevents you from seeing them in full. The text itself only describes the injuries. The photos will not paste properly, but here are the descriptions, though they do not begin to convey the horror of the acts.
Some were emailed to me by an anonymous police detective and depict the extreme, brutal violence with which White men, women and children are murdered. After weeks of much anguished consideration I decided to publish a small selection of the horror show I was subjected to. I have many more but couldn’t stomach viewing the 50 odd images he sent me, or to open them and place strips over the victims eyes. This is the reality of South Africa 2009. Not a nice place to live any more, like you have no fucking idea.
This woman was hijacked, abducted, raped, stabbed 45 times in chest, 30 stab wounds in back. Body was found in Diepsloot squatter camp.
House invasion: Raped, tortured, murdered by impalement with broomstick. The top section of the broom was sharpened before insertion and rammed right through (her vagina), exiting near the neck.
Farm murder: stabbed to death after which the black criminals raped her corpse
Farm murder: Raped, murdered and disemboweled
Farm murder: Hacked to death with panga or meat cleaver. Note defensive wounds
Farm Murder: Slashed and stabbed to death, raped
House robbery: child bludgeoned to death, parents murdered
Farm murder: child beaten, strangled to death. Note broken nose, concussed eyes
House robbery: couple shot to death
House robbery: Raped, stabbed, tortured, hacked to death
Farm murder: shot to death execution style
80 year old woman tortured, raped, disembowelled with broken bottles rammed up her anus & vagina
Farm murder: murdered, partially disembowelled and body hung upside down in cooler room
Sipu
Governments are notoriously slow to act – they need to know that they have sufficient numbers of their electorates behind them so that they will get voted back in. Disgusting I agree – but that is the nature of those who seek power.
I couldn’t agree more that the worms will turn. It won’t be my mother’s generation (now 90) they benefited from Empire and have been fed the guilt kick too well, it won’t be my generation either. We will eventually realise that we have been gulled … but won’t be prepared to do more than moan. It is the next generation (and I include my grandchildren, now in their mid-twenties), who will discard the guilt as having no relevance to them.
It will, of course, be too late. I wish that I could say otherwise.
Thanks, Sipu.
I can now understand why you are angry, although I still cannot see the pictures. It does not square at all with the image that the SA Government are anxious to project; tourism, incredibly beautiful scenery. I have not visited South Africa, but I’m aware of a disturbingly violent side, although unaware of the full extent until now. But as you say, it is largely hidden and so unreported here.
Ara, I have emailed you the document. xx
Thanks, Sipu.
I doubt I’ll enjoy the photos, but you are right, these things shouldn’t be ignored.
May I commend the Robert Ruark novel, Something of Value, to anyone interested in both sides of this discussion. While it deals specifically with the rise of the Mau Mao in Kenya, subsequent events across the continent follow the same pattern.
Hi Zen, I remember the novel from my childhood, though I regret that I have never actually read it.
There is a full length documentary, over 2 hours, called Addio Africa made by an Italian production company in 1966. You can see it here, though you may have seen it before.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/africa-addio/.
It is fascinating and horrid too. The massacre of the Arabs on Zanzibar was not something I was aware of until I saw this.
Recently one of the staff bloggers on DT made the comment that many Afro-Caribbean mothers and grandmothers, not born in Britain, blame the British welfare system and the human rights industry for stopping them chastising and correcting their children as they would do if “at home”. Yes, it’s all our fault again. I commented that it was perhaps time for these mothers and grandmothers (no mention of male family members of course) to remove the said children from the pernicious influence of Britain. Got a lot of recommends.
Horrific photos, Sipu. I hope the perpetrators end up in the coldest part of Dante’s “Inferno”. Odd that he thought of Hell as a cold place.
Thanks, Sipu, will watch it.
Thanks Sheona. Yes it does seem as if we are blamed for everything. Take slavery, which is still rife in much of Africa. Nobody seems to care because it is black on black. They only harp back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Anglo Saxon race needs to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough!’
The Anglo Saxon race needs to stop shelling out foreign aid.
Sipu, I’ve just returned from a quick shopping trip. A local policeman was handing out leaflets asking anyone who had been in the town last Tuesday if they could give any information about a robbery in a travel agent’s. Both the criminals were described as “black”. That’s a step in the right direction.
Araminta: Genocide Watch, a US-based organisation which attempts to predict and prevent genocide and mass atrocities, has declared South Africa and Zimbabwe to be at high risk. What’s going on there is similar to what happened to Native Americans. There might not be a politically-sanctioned genocide, but the government certainly turns a blind eye and lets it happen.
http://www.genocidewatch.org/alerts/countriesatrisk2011.html
Sipu: I have another ulterior motive. The term is almost done, we still get on well, and my end mark is my main concern at this point. I have nearly 100pc in the class, not counting the extra work I’ve done, and I do not want to risk that at this point.
Thank you, Christopher.
I appreciate the additional information from both you and Sipu. I’ll have a look at your link.
I believe I have mentioned this before, maybe here or maybe on MyT. I live in North Kent/South London very close to Kidbrook/Eltham the home of the soon to be Canonised Stephen Lawrence, such a fine upstanding youth, never did a thing wrong, helped OAP’s cross the road, turned water into wine and fed the 5000.
Okay maybe he didn’t.
But living round here I know 3 separate people who were either in the same school as he was or have family who where. He was known as a small time dealer along with some of his mates. Now I don’t know if this is the case but it has been said that the guys that killed him were other drug dealers and it was a turf war or disagreement over who sold what to whom. Whatever happened Lawrence ended up dead.
The police possibly looked at it and though “one less (black) dealer in the area” and did not really investigate. So yes the police where certainly at fault, and yes the murderers should pay for their crime. But the rest of it is beyond the pale.
There is a plaque on the ground there that is monitored by 24 hour cctv paid for by the tax payer, even Churchill’s statue in Westerham doesn’t warrant such protection.
As for racism perhaps we should look at this carefully, for I do not believe it is racism or in racism, I feel it is more tribalism. As in the footballer it was not that he was black, but that he had a different coloured shirt on. If you are on holiday you will gravitate to English speakers regardless of colour, because they are doing something similar to you.
HI Rick, it does not surprise me what you say about Lawrence, and I am in complete agreement with you about the tribalism thing. I remember getting very shirty, if you will excuse the pun, with members of opposite teams, when playing rugby. It only lasted as long as the game did. We see it a club and national level. I cant remember who it was, but recently one England player received a 3 match ban for punching another England player during a club game. At the time these guys were foes, but they would soon be allies. Surely it is worse to punch someone than call him black, but I don’t remember the police getting involved.
I have often commented on the phenomenon of speaking to fellow nationals abroad. When I hear a Zim or SA accent in a pub in the UK, for example, I might very well go up and ask the person where he is from. If I hear that same accent here in Cape Town, it would not occur to me to do so.
Sipu: I met with my professor today in her office and brought up the photographs. She agreed with my original decision not to send them to her as she is admittedly squeamish. She is not ignorant about life on the continent, she grew up primarily in Nigeria and has a Yoruba father. She said she knows about the problems in South Africa because she spends a good amount of time there and has many friends there, black and white. She also said that there is violent crime everywhere.
Just in case anyone thinks it is still not going on.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/01/14/north-west-farmer-killed-wife-assaulted
And on…..
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/02/24/elderly-dullstroom-woman-tortured-with-hot-iron-murdered