SA can learn many lessons from tragic shooting in Buffalo store

THE recent killing spree in Buffalo in New York by an 18-year-old exemplifies the end result of a racist upbringing. It defies logic this teen was able to harness such incredible hatred towards innocent people in a grocery store without being spoon fed racist propaganda by his parents. It starts in the home, goes to the schools and manifests in that grocery store.

I see it every day in Cape Town. Racism in endemic and ingrained in our society. It always starts in the home with parents ranting about the injustices of a black government destroying the country, how whites have been sidelined, how corruption has destroyed the country. The argument is never about the corruption in government or the ANC.