I thought this was a no-no?
Thanks go out to the “Curiouser and curiouser” blog for blogging about this because I didn’t watch this one at The Times.
Who in their right mind uses the K-word anymore? I honestly can’t even bring myself to blog it out loud. It’s just not right, in any context at all. And as Curiouser has said, if a white old chum had said the very same sentenced he or she would probably have been lynched by now, literally. We’d have had a massive uprising and call to punishment for the poor sod.
But it’s OK for someone who is black to sit in front of the country’s media and thus public and use the word outright.
Dr Irvin Khoza should be held accountable for his actions. He thinks that it is OK to say “Excuse me for saying this…” Go to hell you narrow-minded nitwit. Using that word does not make you more cosmopolitan and hip with the lowdown times. It makes you a bigot whichever way you look at it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but saying “no offense intended” and then proceed to slam the person in to the ground. Guess what? They took offense.
So without wasting more time ranting, here it goes. Wait for about 1:20min…
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Now doesn’t that look great. The LOC for the 2010 World Cup is not only allegedly in-fighting but now are using profanity and racial slurs to defend themselves. Great work.
I thought SA had moved on a wee bit further than this?
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February 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I don’t care who you are, this is unacceptable. If a word is deemed racist, it should be deemed and enforced regardless of the race of the speaker, especially when used in an aggressive context like this.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
100% agree, standards need to be kept by everyone, not only when it suits you.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wow! Staggering that people representing the country do things like this. Reminds me of Bheki Cele last year (http://www.timesurl.at/845d4e). Who do these people think they are? A disgrace
February 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I saw this on the news on Monday and couldn’t help laughing. I agree wholeheartedly with everyone’s comments but you’ve got to see the humour in this.
February 21st, 2008 at 4:39 am
It is pretty funny. “I know the word also has another meaning, but in the context in which I used it, it refers to dubious character and unreliability,” said Khoza on Tuesday.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Be careful of what comments you post on blogs, bloggers.
The name for my internet connection was changed to KILL by none other than that guy called Uhuru Guru from SAS.
He has hijacked my computer, totally.
And that’s not because I don’t have internet security. I have three programs for this.
He is a blackmailer who will stoop to the lowest of the lowest.