Everbody’s getting a word in on the causes of the xenophobic violence in South Africa (62 murdered; hundreds of thousands homeless) and the South African government’s haphazard and pitiful response.
Comedian Chris Rock in the country on his “No Apologies” tour: “It’s broke-on-broke violence. It’s broke people robbing each other” (Source).
Also weighing in: Author Philip Gourevitch who wrote a book on the genocide in Rwanda (source). The Gourevitch piece is fine. It reads more like analysis. My only gripe is with the elevation of the American ambassador to Zimbabwe as the only person seeming to have any ethics.
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I find the use of the phrase “black on black violence” in the media thoroughly racist. Did they refer to the violence in the Balkans as “white on white” violence? Or the violence in Tibet as “yellow on yellow” violence?
Why “black on black”?
Steve,
Because at the origin black people are supposed to have such behaviour, so it’s a sort of “I told you so” statement. It’s thoroughly racist.
It could also be the arrogance of certain black minorities without proper education and moral values.
[...] Comedian Chris Rock in the country on his “No Apologies” tour: “It’s broke-on-broke violence. It’s broke people robbing each other” (Source). Also weighing in: Author Philip Gourevitch who wrote a book on the genocide in Rwanda (source) … Source: Xenophobic violence in S.Africa “not black-on-black violence … [...]
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