And there are plenty of others
who are guilty of far worse things that ‘are not in
keeping with building a non-racial and non-sexist society.’
But they aren’t fired.
In fact, some of them are promoted.
Granted, some of the stuff attributed to
coloureds in Kuli’s column are simply not true and
obviously sucked out of some inexperienced and misinformed
thumb.
Unless of course there is a special breed of coloured that
has managed to stay under my radar for the fifty-plus years
that I have been living amongst them, as one of them.
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Nah people, our Kuli was simply
and naively trying to attract attention to her column
through a bit of misguided humour.
I don't even think she was banking
on controversy.
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In fact I suspect that she does not have
it her poor soul to even formulate a motive for premeditated
derogatory offending racism against anyone.
So, I don’t agree that she should
have been fired.
But I DO agree with Rebekah
Kendal’s opinion that she should never have been
allowed to write any column anywhere in the first place.
I also agree with Bronwen Heather’s
comment on the article on Facebook.
‘Klomp kak if you ask me’ wrote Bronwen.
Decide for yourself by reading Kuli’s
original column, which has since been removed from the online
edition of Sunday World, here
or here.
