That story really made me furious! What business did that “third party” have in getting involved?

It was none of his business. I fear that we will see more, not less of racist vigilantism in the future…
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I wonder how anyone could think that this sort of reaction to a (perceived) racist slight is acceptable? They were not even involved in the (perceived) racist event, but overheard it and decided that it was ok to stick their noses (amongst other things) in.
Should a couple of white boys have gone after the black boy for calling the white boy ‘boertjie’ as well?

Where I work we often joke about our races and cultures. Our team consists of 1 afrikaner white male, 1 Portuguese male, 1 gay english male and 1 straight english male and myself (coloured female). I say things like “Is it cause I am coloured?” and “Eish your Porra’s” and they make jokes back along the same lines, joking about coloured people and their cars, poking fun at each other’s accents, etc.
We do not have a black person in our team, but I wonder – would we be able to poke fun at each other in the same way if there was a black person among us? Would he/she feel that we are being racist or join us in our jokes?

Quite a nice piece either way Charlie – you have a great way of writing. I don’t believe you should feel anger on for yourself (perhaps for others) on a topic that didn’t truly influence you. It’s a great step towards letting things go and ending a horrible cycle.
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Mos_Native :
@Carla Nunes
Firstly, the friend is female.
Secondly, no Im not psychic but I did not need to be in this case. All I needed was a pair of eyes and reading ability because she made mention of the derogatory use of the word boy in her comment.
Maybe you should read the post in question before asking silly questions?
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can you point us to the blog where Charlie was called boy please?

Fair enough.

BTW, I do respect your perspective on this issue, as I did then. My debate with you on this is not to turn you over to my take on the issue.
While there are some intolerant older people (and younger), your youth has no bearing on my perception of your viewpoint.
When I challenge your ideas, it is not to convert you, it is to allow you to interrogate the validity of your ideas – well that is the intention…
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Firstly, the friend is female.
Secondly, no Im not psychic but I did not need to be in this case. All I needed was a pair of eyes and reading ability because she made mention of the derogatory use of the word boy in her comment.

Maybe you should read the post in question before asking silly questions?
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Look, not everything in my article refers directly to you. Our situation happened to be a handy example. So really, perhaps I should clarify by saying that not everything that I said applies to you.

Since this is really a discussion of viewpoints and experiences, there can be no wrong or right. personally, i feel that no wrong was done, even after several people told me that it’s “wrong” for an older white woman to refer to me as ‘boy’. I remain unconvinced that it was a racial jab… in fact, i found it rather ironic. she did she, i believe.

perhaps we won’t ever see eye-to-eye on this particular point. i just hope that my viewpoint will be granted equal credence to everyone else’s.
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