LETTER: Helen Zille’s black privilege tweets perpetuate racial generalisation
The immunity from consequences of which the former DA leader complains stems from being members of a powerful ruling class, not from the colour of the looters’ skin
30 May 2019 - 05:05
Helen Zille says her main error was in not doing more to prevent the DA from entering the ANC and EFF’s “race narrative” arena and her tweets are “geared at exposing the fallacy of racial generalisations”.
But her “black privilege” tweets engage in precisely the racial generalisation she claims they were aimed at: “Well you clearly don’t understand black privilege. It is being able to loot a country and steal hundreds of billions and get re-elected.”..
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