FRANS CRONJE: Tiny proportion of South Africans see racism as particularly serious policy priority
If critical race theory theorists are to be taken at face value, every liberal democracy is pitted in a fight to the death between white racists and black victims
SA is a racist country in only three respects: its history of institutionalised discrimination; the racial policies of its current government; and its often not-very-brave elites, who replicate that discrimination in the institutions they control. But in a fourth respect — its people, and therefore the most important — SA is not a racist society at all.
The latter observation has been the central finding of opinion polling the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has done on SA, going back a very long time. The most recent data, released to the media last week to coincide with the launch of our #RacimsIsNotTheProblem initiative, — I will say more about that at the end — finds that only a tiny proportion of South Africans see racism as a particularly serious policy priority, and only a small proportion experience discrimination by their fellow citizens. ..
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