A clip of a distorted interview with a young black boy has raised questions about ethics in journalism in America. Responding to a news reporter’s question about what he’d like to be when he grows up, the boy replied: “I’m going to have me a gun! I’m going to be the police!” Guess which part of that sentence did not make it to TV?
Can you hear that? It is the world’s smallest violin playing just for Steve Hofmeyr and that massive chip on his shoulder. In a new song he has written and dedicated to murdered AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, called “Ons Sal Dit Oorleef”, he tackles the issue of white people being oppressed in South Africa. He also throws in the k-word. Yes, that specific one. Lyrics Inside.
This charming fellow is a member of the English Defence League, which is something similar to the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but for racist chavs. He’s clearly afraid of the the encroaching influence of “Muslamic” law. And did I hear him say “Muslamic Ray Guns” at 1:20?
A prominent US politician, Marilyn Davenport, is in trouble for sending out an email with a photo of chimpanzee parents and their infant. Barack Obama’s face is superimposed on the chimpanzee infant, and the caption reads: “Now you know why no birth certificate.” Her response to the whole matter, however, is even spicier.
A US teacher has landed herself in some deep poo after a teaching stunt of hers went wrong. In order to help her class understand the American Civil War better, she staged a mock auction of black and mixed-race students in her primary school classroom. All together now: Only in America!
I know it is the northern suburbs, behind the boerewors curtain, and all that. But wrong is still wrong. The picture to my left is part of an actual logo for a toyshop in Tygervalley Shopping Centre. Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you – that is an actual Golliwog you are looking at.
In this girls defense, she does begin her rant off with “no offense”, She goes on to launch a thinly-veiled, racially-charged diatribe, loaded with the kind of epithets that make you wince. I know someone who could benefit from Charm 101.
He might have been competent enough to run a major theatre in South Africa, but someone forgot to mention to Matjamela Motloung that when you type anti-Semitic rants on your Facebook page, other people can also read the statement. And they can make screenshots of the rant, which can be emailed to news outlets in a heartbeat. Read the quote that got him fired inside.
This has not been a great couple of days for Kuli Roberts. Apart from calls for her public lynching, and curses placed on her mother’s private parts, she has also lost her weekly newspaper column. But she is expected to make a public apology on her TV show, Headline, this evening – details and time inside.