LETTER: Black leadership is what matters to black lives
Most organisations and institutions in SA are no longer dominated by whites
As members of a multiracial nation with a racist history, most South Africans should recognise the national importance of continuously and determinedly fostering racial harmony among our citizens. Racism in any form will destroy the prospects of our citizens living in peace and prosperity with one another.
If the slogans, exhibitionism and support of and for the Black Lives Matter movement in our country are intended to positively and peacefully promote such a state of racial harmony, they should be applauded and supported. If, however, they are used as a platform to express continued outrage and seek revenge for colonialism, apartheid or more recent forms of racial injustice, they will have the opposite effect and unnecessarily increase racial tension...
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