On May 6, 9:50=A0pm, "Jenicek" <Jeni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> And I bet you will start shouting again, if the church start condemning
> reverse race discrimination at present in full speed in SA!
>
I don't think that it is accurate to call Black Executive Enrichment
and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Workplace 'reverse' race
discrimination - they are direct racial discriminiation. Denying
somebody a job that he is qualified for simply because of the colour
of his skin is, and always has been, racial discrimination and it is
wrong.
I must say that I haven't noticed much from any leading god-botherers
about this, but I have never really expected much from them. As
Steve's article points out, the churches are primarily organisations
that are keen to protect their existence, and genuine attacks on evil
don't help much with that. The Roman Catholic Church feared that the
Fascists would take the Vatican away from them, so that was enough to
keep them quiet on the holocaust. I doubt you'd find churches taking
many risks to protect people from racism at work. After all, they'd
argue, white people can simply leave to get a good job elsewhere.
They're right about white people leaving because of racism. I was sad
to teach somebody the other day who had been deliberately passed over
for promotion many times (but was expected to train his juniors to
take over his job). He, and his family (his children are completing
their degrees, ready to enter the workforce) are leaving, not because
he can't take it, but because he doesn't want his children to suffer.
He certainly had no desire to leave and, knowing him, it is clear that
his loss is going to cost the country economically.
It was also strange to meet coloured nurses in New Zealand, senior
nurses, actually, who had also left because of racial discrimination.
It isn't quite so easy for coloured people, since they are also
'previously disadvantaged' [as the phrase has it], but not
sufficiently 'previously disadvantaged' to benefit from the racism.
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