Thanks for exposing the racists
I AM not sure why Ashwin Willemse did what he did or what he thought he would achieve, but I thank him for helping expose the racist minority.
Since the saga started social media has been abuzz with hate speech and insults against the coloured populace as well as against Willemse.
Never ever have I read such hateful and hurtful words aimed at the coloured people.
For many years we were called traitors and draadsitters for always jumping to the tune of the white man.
But one thing is for sure: that will never happen again. We see your true colours. They are the ones who would start a chat with you, smile at you, but once you’ve turned your back you are just a Hotnot.
What I’ve learnt is that white people don’t like being embarrassed in public and when a brown man spoke his mind in a professional manner, turned his back on two white men and walked away on national TV it made the white men look inferior to the brown man, and that’s what all the hype is about.
You might own the economy and own the land, but you have lost the respect of the coloured people.
Without our respect you have made a new enemy.
I always thought these racist minorities were a minority, but thanks to social media they are a majority.
Thank you to the handful of openminded white folks who managed to change with the times.
The people I feel real sorry for are your kids and their future generations. Because of your racist tendencies they will have an uncertain future in this country.
Thank you, Ashwin.
X L von Buchenroder, Northern areas, Port Elizabeth
THE comments under every social media report about Ashwin Willemse’s on-air rant were disgusting to read.
The dormant racism that is so clear, is absolutely terrible.
It is no coincidence that most people of colour could relate to him, even before we heard the full story.
It is because we’ve all experienced similar situations.
Yet, white people still refuse to listen or try to understand, and insist on policing how we protest or react to situations exclusive to us.
White people have never had to fight for dignity, basic rights or respect.
It is easy to say that the race card should stop being played or apartheid should stop being brought up, but for most people in this country, it is not just a card or a regime of the past.
Their lives are still shaped by apartheid and the effects are still relevant today.
We can’t let the erasure of the past and the promise of the future distract us from the realities of the present.
We wish we had the privilege to believe it is just a trump card and we wish that white people would just listen when we, and other white people, try to explain why it is not.