Racism X 2

Two racism stories today:

1. A South African school is investigating supposed racism by some of its teachers after 80 pupils asked to be transferred to another school. Apparently they made comments such as "coloureds are rubbish and have no manners".

If these accusations are true, it's racism, no doubt about it, and the teachers should be disciplined. Although part of me wonders why black people can't just rise above this sort of thing instead of rebelling and going to another school.


2. An advert for the cricket series between India and the West Indies "shows the Caribbeans being heckled in India".

This is a non-story. As far as I can tell (and the article is very vague) this is simply the usual light-hearted heckling fans of opposing teams engage in during cricket and other sports events. Not much more to say on that.