Round-up

1. This opinion piece is intelligently written and contains some valid points, but at the end of the day I simply cannot accept the author's thesis that "there is simply too little respect by our white compatriots for black people's sensitivities to colonialism and racism." Is the author unaware of such activities as Tony Blair's groveling apologies for the slave trade last year? And it seems to me that any analysis of the media will demonstrate that whites are all too quick to bemoan white racism against blacks, even when no such racism actually exists.

Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya writes eloquently, but his piece reads too much as a victimhood session, even though he insists that's not what it's supposed to be. I found myself only truly agreeing with one statement he made in the article, and that's this one:

"Newsflash: racism, the slave trade, colonialism and apartheid are just as evil as the Holocaust and other forms of behaviour based on the assumption that your own people are more human and thus deserving of greater respect than others."

2. In the Unbelievable Story of the Day, a nineteen year old boy with Down's Syndrome who has a mental age of five was accused of "racism" after he allegedly attacked a girl - who is "Asian" - at college. I'm thinking that perhaps it was the Motherwell authorities, and not the boy, who truly has a case of severe mental retardation.