RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL Jason van Garderen of Lawyers for Human rights has this to say about the recent granting of asylum to Brandon Huntley by the Canadian Immigration Board. “At best it is grossly incorrect to make a finding that white people are specifically persecuted by black criminals. At worst it could even be considered as racist.” Racism is alive and well and living amongst us in all corners of the world. And yes, that includes South Africa. Anyone who refutes that is either consciously or subconsciously in denial, or living in a bubble.

Originally from Mowbray in Cape Town, Huntley, a thirty-one-year-old unemployed irrigation system salesman, has illegally been living in Canada for the past four years.

He claims that he was violently attacked seven times by black criminals while he was living in South Africa, and that he had been called a ‘settler’ and a ‘white dog.’

Huntley became the first white South African to be granted asylum based on ‘fear of persecution by blacks in South Africa.’

According to William Davis of the Canadian Immigration Board, Huntley gave “clear and convincing proof” that the South African state was unable or unwilling to protect him.’

I contend that not all blacks are persecuting whites in South Africa.
I also contend that not all whites are being persecuted by blacks in South Africa.
I am even prepared to contend that there are some people of all races in South Africa who are truly not racist.

What I fail to see is how the Canadian ruling constitutes racism.

Is Van Garderen inferring that by granting asylum to Huntley the Canadians are persecuting blacks?
Is Huntley ‘specifically white people’?
Is the South African state ‘specifically black criminals’?
Somebody please help me understand.
I am losing it here.

Kader Khan
Editor
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