After Jessica Leandra's tweet that included the 'k' word, as South Africans, and especially Black South Africans, we have become more sensitive towards issues of race.
Model Jessica responds.
source: The citizen Online.
08 May 2012 | AVASHNEE MOODLEY
Leandra was responding to an open letter by DA national spokesman Mmusi Maimane who had invited her to his home to challenge her racist views.
The model who has come under fire for her rant on social networking site Twitter said she intended to mend her ways and ensure she restored the trust of all South Africans.
Responding further to Maimane she said: “having read your letter in great detail I am most willing to embrace your idea believing that you have it in your heart to help me bring healing to this matter.
“I beg of you that this should not become a party political issue. If this is what it is going to turn out to be then I am regrettably not interested.”
Dos Santos said this did not start off as a political debate and should not become one now.
“If anything, this needs to become a healing process and a process of uniting the nation back to where we were a week ago,” said the model.
She also appealed to Tshidi Thamana who had responded to her tweet with a racist rant of her own by asking her to embrace this opportunity and walk this road jointly with her.
“I know in my heart that you too don’t harbour the hatred that you displayed on Twitter in response to my ludicrous and irresponsible tweet.
“Together we can do a great deal for our nation,” she pleaded.
In conclusion Dos Santos said she looked forward to working with Maimane.
“Together we shall achieve,” she added.
The model who has come under fire for her rant on social networking site Twitter said she intended to mend her ways and ensure she restored the trust of all South Africans.
Responding further to Maimane she said: “having read your letter in great detail I am most willing to embrace your idea believing that you have it in your heart to help me bring healing to this matter.
“I beg of you that this should not become a party political issue. If this is what it is going to turn out to be then I am regrettably not interested.”
Dos Santos said this did not start off as a political debate and should not become one now.
“If anything, this needs to become a healing process and a process of uniting the nation back to where we were a week ago,” said the model.
She also appealed to Tshidi Thamana who had responded to her tweet with a racist rant of her own by asking her to embrace this opportunity and walk this road jointly with her.
“I know in my heart that you too don’t harbour the hatred that you displayed on Twitter in response to my ludicrous and irresponsible tweet.
“Together we can do a great deal for our nation,” she pleaded.
In conclusion Dos Santos said she looked forward to working with Maimane.
“Together we shall achieve,” she added.
Ken Sinclair responds.
Source: Ceoplatinumbarb's Blog
said:
I want to clear a few things up, because this is all been taken way out of proportion. I understand that how I wrote the status and portrayed black people in South Africa was not the correct way to do things. I honestly meant NO harm by creating this status, I was simply in an outraged mood yesterday when I made it because of how many black people at my university have been treating me lately. It seems as though racism is very rife towards whites in this day and age. No one should try and argue with this point as I know A LOT of white people who will share stories of how they have been treated, whether it be by fellow peers or the people who should be protecting us – the police.
People who are not white cannot comment on this next piece you simply would not know what we go through. When I walk around, whether it be at Varsity on on the streets, I am always the one who has to move off the pavement or out the way so that black people can walk past, they never EVER have the decency to walk in single file, rather they will walk straight into you. I was walking with my bag over my right shoulder a few days ago and saw people coming, so I thought to myself, oh gosh, another wall of people coming at me and literally thought let me brace for impact as I had no where to go in the passage…just as I thought, BAM straight into me and knocked my bag right off my shoulder and then I get shouted at by them in Xhosa, and looked at in a disgusted way. I think this is pathetic and no matter what your skin colour you should always have common courtesy to walk in single file rather than straight into someone when you can clearly see there is NO space to walk side by side. This is just ONE example out of many many occassions!
This was my last straw and is what made me post that status in absolute rage.
I know this is not an excuse but every single black person (around my age) seems to have no decency toward me at all, even though I have done nothing to provoke this, and I dont see why I should keep putting up with this and its not seen as racist towards me?
The same with the police, I was walking down one of the streets in the southern suburbs with another good friend of mine a couple of weeks ago at around 8pm, still light, and was told by a cop van to stop. So my friend and I looked at each other and thought what is going on? Maybe a burglary has happened and they suspect us? We went towards the cops, they told me to put my hands by my side so my friend and I laughed thinking this was some sort of joke, the second I laughed, the one black officer drew his gun (this is dead honest, I have a witness) and said you dont take me for a joke, I can shoot you! I was in absolute shock and obviously never reported it as I would be going straight to where they work and get laughed at. I told my parents, and my friends dad as he is a lawyer, and he told us both to just leave it, its not worth the unnecessary hassle.
Another occasion, over the past few months we have had numerous items, such as extension leads and drills stolen from our property, one got caught by combat force, he had dropped the lead so we had no proof of him being caught red handed but the combat force officer saw him running from our property, this thief was a black man.
This is a prime example of people wanting everything for nothing! Why must my parents, and myself work hard for our money to have some guy come take our stuff for free?
Last year, I needed a small percentage to pass one of my subjects, this particular lecturer always had an issue with me, you can ask any of the people in my class, she was a black woman, and whenever I asked for help I would be ignored, she walked right past me many times proceeding to help other students and excluding me. This is my future, I came there to learn, not to be excluded and be belittled by someone who has an unknown issue with me. This is unproffesional. A fellow student in my class needed over 100% for his final exam in order to pass, obviously not being possible, yet his final mark was 50% on the dot in his report. My mark remained at 33% after I had redone all of my work and had it checked by my friend who got 90% in this class. Now does this seem fair in anyway at all? I now have to repeat this class again, at inconvenient times, wasting my time, life and fuel of travelling because of someone who couldnt be proffesional in her field of work.
I would like to end this off by saying once again, I apologise to anyone I may have offended, I know for a fact there are wonderful black people, my maid is one of the nicest people I know and I have no issue with her at all, we laugh and joke on a regular basis with one another. I just made this status to try and show people that the media is quick to jump at any racism towards black people as it grabs huge amounts of attention, yet racism towards white people seems to be something that just doesnt happen or is ever spoken about? And permanently gets ignored.
This is why I generalise, because the majority of black skinned people I come across treat me like shit and look me up and down like im some worthless human being. Its not on guys, Apartheid ended 18 years ago now, my generation had nothing to do with it anyways so this racism against whites seriously needs to stop! I mind my own business, I dont ever look for reasons to go hating on black people, its just it seems as though they all have something against us whites to this day, and thats why I made such an angry status.
Lastly, the female who blew this whole thing out of proportion has an issue with me as her best friend (my girlfriend) basically wrote her off after calling us white trash over the phone and this is her way of getting back at me, not against “stopping racism”. Hence why all the comments such as “I wana blow their heads off with a shotgun” have no names next to them, to try and make me look like only “bad guy” in this whole thing.
I would just like to say one more time, I apologise to anyone else I offended, but hopefully you can see things through my eyes now, rather than hearing single sided views.
Regards,
Ken Sinclair