You are confused. Funny you only pick on the White example.

The Skielik killings were no incitement to racial hatred or violence. He incited no one. Just did the killing himself. No white ever incited any killing, nor was further killing called for.

Now the ANC official outside who led the mob in ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’, the ANC offical who said ‘We will kill you Whites like flies’, Meneer Mandela who chanted ‘Kill the amaBhulu, kill them all’ etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiePbTcAfY

When said to mobs, is this not incitement to racial violence?

Why do you not suggest they be punished? I have news for you; they will not be.

Tolerance is something expected only of whites, and incitement of racial violence appears to be a charge to which Blacks are granted immunity. To accuse them of it is racist.

In many decades of conflict the sight of white families brutally murdered in their homes is some of the worst violence ever experienced among many of the nicest people in the world.

Farmers, the aged, the young, thousands every year, hundreds of families. Now only blood and pieces of bodies remain.

Teachers and children across SA get attacked and are profoundly traumatised. Young children say why did they shoot dada for our car? Why didnt they buy one themselves?

There is possibly not one white South African who has not been touched by the violence, either directly or through a family member or friend.

A government spokesman said if you don’t like the crime you can leave.

They killed thousands of our people. We didn’t retaliate. Fear is everywhere.

With no power, farm attacks, land claims etc major agricultural exports are declining. What is probably more dangerous to the economy and employment figures — which in turn affect stability — is the vast number of small businesses who will be forced to shut down.

Dante wrote that “hell is reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality” — the world has learned too few lessons from Zimbabwe.

Oops, who cares? These are White people. It is not PC to worry about their plight. There is a deafening silence in the world media. The sooner this embarrassing white tribe of Africa disappears the better. Lets rather focus on Kenya.

Now when the saviour becomes the villain what happens. He cannot assert the fear that the dictator instilled in the populace (reminds one of Saddam). So people can go beserk and burn everything they can lay their hands on. In the meanwhile comes a truly myopic opposition leader. The situation is calming. He wins a crucial Speaker’s seat and how does he celebrate the democratic victory he calls for three days of protests which he cannot control. The result mayhem. I was in London when I saw the mob on TV uprooting a rail track with their bare hands. For the sake of crying out loud, that was expensive infrastructure. Does Mr Odinga want to preside over inxiwa i.e. ruins. Mr Odinga has not behaved responsibly as has Mr Kibaki. He has become over excited at his perceived support and ability to arouse the wrath of the “masses” which I term incitement.

The situation is similar to the other foolish behaviour of a “povo” that is easily excitable, manipulated and that is not armed with the critical consciousness to reclaim the state from the party and make decisions that build the nation and not destroy it. That is South Africa. The violent delivery protests, the Khutsong scenario, some sentiments about the troubles of Jacob Zuma and the burning of the train. All these point to a recipe for disaster and the danger of selfish, cunning politicians. Lord Betrand Russell in his essay “The ancestry of fascism” made a good point of how easy it is to selfishly exploit people’s grievances and appear the hero but lead to dictatorship and anarchy. I was joking with a friend from Zimbabwe who was laughing at me saying if we were experiencing the kinds of powercuts they have in Zim Metro rail and Transnet rail or Spoornet will cease to exist. Somebody in cutting fashion said during PW’s time they would not have gotten away with burning trains and besides who uses the trains. The only people who were capable of such arson were taxi owners then. Zimbabwe for all its problems does not have such acts. Which got me thinking about what the Soviet Glasnost era Foreign affairs Minister Shevadnadze said when he became president of one of the former soviet republics is it Georgia. On being asked about seemingly undemocratic tactics he remarked that order in some countries could only be maintained by such tactics. So when strongman Robert Mugabe goes, and no one respects the other what happens? Will Zimbabweans leave the only thing that has kept the country in relative stability i.e. the pursuit of money, trying to make a living, seeking economic livelihood elsewhere (thank heavens they are in demand and have the skills and work ethic and adaptability to live anywhere).Or perhaps Zimbabweans have the consciousness not to be manipulated into burning their country in a post dictatorship era. Or will people long for the stability of the strongman era.

The violence that rocked the world

Reached horrific levels resulting everywhere

With loss of children, women, and men for days

Burned in a church as they were seeking sanctuary

And sanctuary was denied

In flames by mobs infuriated by votes.

The innocent victims faced their rage

Seeking help from locked doors and homes ending

As charred bodies and trash in the once silent streets

No water from kinfolks and no food from neighbors

With nothing gained to be sure.

Only we can save ourselves from this rage

Dedicated to Those who lost their lives in the

Post Elections Riots.Kenya . January 2008

Well done for giving us names, ages and pen-pictures of these unfortunates. When the killings and the travails afflict hundreds and thousands of people, they become dehumanised by news coverage. We read about it and go to the kitchen for a cheese sandwich and sit there thinking that they don’t make PROPER cheese any more. The horror story is lost in our hunger pang simply because it had no faces with which to connect. It happened to a mob. Somewhere where nobody we know lives anyway.

If strangers are to bother about these benighted people, we have to cease being so strangerly. If we have knowledge of real people with real identities facing personal crises, we may more readily empathise and get off our chumps to assist. Even if it is just to spare a thought and write a cheque or something.

You did a good thing, Charlene. Well done.