Bra Mike on RACISM: We have repeatedly stated that systemic and institutionalized racism pervades every aspect of the South African experience. Because racism mutates to accommodate changes in the prevailing scheme of things, simply removing offensive laws from the statute will not alter conduct. Ingenious marketing schemes camouflage racism and create a comforting perception of change that is simply not supported by fact. The public space that is controlled by mainstream media, works to ensure that the paradigm of racism is contained within a simplistic interpretation. Dispossession, the ultimate objective of racism, is overlooked. This may account for the reason why any effort to foster a cognitive understanding of racism is without editorial support in mainstream South African media. In similar vein, institutions of State, ironically borne out of the struggles of a racially oppressed people, seem to exist in a state of cultural amnesia, themselves marketing nothing more than a superficial notion of reconciliation- Stainbank, 2008. bit.ly/1vc8TlV
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:20:14 +0000