Diabetes group slams ‘racist’ outburst claim
A NON-profit organisation that advocates for the diabetes community has distanced itself from comments made by a Benoni woman who blamed her outburst against black people on her low sugar levels.
Sweet Life Diabetes Community’s Bridget McNulty said, on behalf of people living with diabetes in South Africa, they wholeheartedly opposed the racist rant.
Last week, Belinda Magor reportedly sent a voice note in a WhatsApp group calling for black women’s uteruses to be removed.
In the clip, Magor says: “Estella/ Stella, I agree with you wholeheartedly. What I say is ban the black man. They rape, they steal, they kill, worse than any pit bull could, and they get away with it.
“Ban those that are making the laws, ban Ekurhuleni, ban the black man. Get all the black women and cut out their uteruses and their ovaries that they cannot procreate because they will all turn out the same because they all the same.
“I’m very passionate about this. Ban them, kill them, shoot them. Get rid of them because they are the problem. Not pit bulls, not animals.”
Speaking to TimesLive, Magor blamed her response on her diabetes.
“When your sugar is out of whack, which happens quite often, you don’t think clearly. You can’t focus. There’s like a cloud over your mind.
“Unfortunately, I don’t get that quite often. I’m on insulin. If my sugar is out of whack, that is why I don’t do an office job, I cannot do it,” she said.
McNulty said it was partly true that a person’s thinking was affected when their sugar levels were high to low.
“Sometimes you say things in a less eloquent way or muddle a word or two. But blood sugar fluctuations do not in any way make you a racist. You are still entirely aware of what you’re saying,” she said.
Magor has been arrested and charged with crimen injuria. She is due back in court next year. |