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06/16/2008: "Journalist claims South African xenophobic violence shows blacks are most racist"

Anyway back to the question of which culture was the most racists, there was by now an uneasy silence in the crowd perhaps telepathically appealing to the comedian to get it over with. As if in answer to their prayers the famous comedian then answered 'Black people!' That´s right. In his words 'Black people are the most racist.' Why? Because in his words 'Black people sometimes hate black people too'. That comment of course is open to a debate in which everyone is entitled to an opinion. But whilst battling with our opinions entitlements can we for a micro-second stop and ponder if we are in actual fact entitled to our facts? Because the facts on ground stare at us everyday like highway billboards and advertisements. Maybe, just maybe - it's high time we embrace those facts.

The incident of 'foreigners' being attacked, displaced and killed in South Africa last month has been a cause for serious concern as official reports of late has put the death toll at 56, with the injured and homeless over 600 and 80,000 respectively . It beggars belief that these 'foreigners' who have been a victim of xenophobic onslaughts actually migrated into the country to earn a decent living, contribute to the South African economy whilst at the same time sending funds home to their families and relatives in their homeland. It´s mind-boggling that these 'foreigners' overnight became victims of the resentments of the locals because they have proven to be well educated and perhaps more hardworking â€"which in the shallow-minded views of the violent perpetrators translates to ´stealing their jobs.´ The tragic part of this civil impasse is the fact that those 'foreigners' aren´t really foreigners: They are Africans.

[ It's natural for any group to resent another group when it threatens their resources. This instinct can be suppressed to a large extent by laws and social opprobrium, but it never goes away. ]

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/65089