Racist slur tarnishes singer's bright star

What else is new? I remember Egyptians soccer fans calling Zimbabwean soccer players monkeys. There is a lot of pretense in the Arab world (and Black Africa) about their attitude to black Africans which is comparable or even superceeds that of the racist whites.

Remember too, they were enslaving black Africans even before the whitesand that is where these attitudes are rooted. You only have to look at Darfur to know the reality of that attitude. It is more than the issue of oil or sovereignity but it is really underpinned by the blatant racism. The Arabs I know and have observed are not even subtle about it. It is unfortunate people do not want to dialogue over this because we want to keep up the pretense in the mantra that they are brothers and sisters. I for one know better.

This is indeed not new at all, there are so many instances out there in the open for all lto see! You are quite right Mukai! Even here at home, we have our own: remember the Mahatma gandhi's idealogy in relations to the African people? Remember Mbongeni Ngema's song? Its just that we always want to be politically correct. A great song that was composed to initiate an important debate was banned, what a loss!