Posts tagged racism

At the root of the skin bleaching phenomenon is a psychological complex.

Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that.

Vicki Momberg a South African real estate agent has been handed a two year imprisonment for her racist rant after the court found her guilty in four counts of crimen injuria. In 2016, a video emerged of Momberg spewing insults and racial slurs at black police officers who were attempting to assist her at the scene of a smash-and-grab crime.

Italy’s first black senator, and the party he represents, won’t be advancing the fight against xenophobia.

The portrayal of Africa in the Black Panther is appealing and deeply satisfying to view. It is a portrayal of Africa that is hungered for, especially by ancestrally orphaned African Americans. But at the same time, it raises questions alert black viewers would be doing themselves a disservice to avoid posing.

The Black Lives Movement has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s International Prize for Peace. The award comes with a cash prize of $50,000 and recognises “the vital contributions of leading global peacemakers.” The Black Lives Matter movement has been “striving for justice every single day.”

The international body-care brand Dove recently hit the headlines for an advertisement widely condemned as racist – and not for the first time. It joins the ranks of many well-known brands that have been called out for racism. But, asks Lineo Segoete, should the African consumer not perhaps do some introspection and consider their complicity?

A court in South Africa has sent two white farmers Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson to jail over a racist incident where the two brutally shoved a Black man in a coffin threatening to douse him with petrol. Oosthuizen and Jackson were sentenced to 11 and 14 years in jail respectively.

Nivea’s TV and billboard adverts for their ‘natural fairness’ moisturiser has caused outrage for pushing the white wash agenda in a market struggling to ban skin bleaching products. The advert is being broadcast in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal. It’s surprising that brands which were previously more inclusive and celebrated ethnic diversity are now cynically tapping into the same insecurity that boosts skin-bleaching sales in emerging markets.

A Chinese museum was forced to remove an exhibit comparing Africans to animals when critics pointed out how “astonishingly offensive” it was. The Exhibition showcased photography in a section dubbed “This Is Africa”, which juxtaposed images of wild African animals with black African people, which caused an uproar for its racist connotations.