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A racist video has once again sparked backlash in South Africa. The controversy reflects the growing power of South Africas social-media users to push back against prejudiced viewsboth by calling for punishment against individuals, and by pushing international brands to react quickly or face the consequences.
This time, the outrage centers on a private video which a man, Adam Catzavelos, took while vacationing abroad. In the video, Catzavelos delivers a satirical weather report praising the absence of black people on the beach. Let me give you a weather forecast here; blue skies, beautiful day, amazing sea and not one k****r in sight, he says, using an apartheid-era derogatory term for black people. Fucking heaven on earth, he says, while the camera pans to show his surroundings.
The video leaked onto social media on Tuesday (Aug. 22), its source unknown. Catzavelos was quickly publicly identified. Within 24 hours, he had become a trending hashtag on South African social media. Twitter users called on black people to boycott any business he was associated withincluding Nike, where Catzavelos wife was said to work as a merchandizing director.
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The video leaked onto social media on Tuesday (Aug. 22), its source unknown. Catzavelos was quickly publicly identified. Within 24 hours, he had become a trending hashtag on South African social media. Twitter users called on black people to boycott any business he was associated withincluding Nike, where Catzavelos wife was said to work as a merchandizing director.
https://qz.com/africa/1366680/adam-catzavelos-racist-rant-nike-other-businesses-distance-themselves/
Catzavelos was also barred from the campus of St. Johns College, his childrens exclusive private school. In a letter to parents, the school said it made the decision not only because his views contradicted that of the school, but also for the safety of his children and others.
Twitter users also uncovered that Catzavelos was once a participant in an entrepreneurship training program, forcing the radio station and bank that ran the program to publicly reject his behavior, too.
Catzavelos now faces possible criminal charges, as racism is considered a crime in South Africa and carries jail time. Political groups have reported him to the police and the human rights commission.
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man praises the absence of black people on the beach (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Aug 2018
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dalton99a
(81,488 posts)1. So this guy was "fired" from his family business
Betcha they're still giving him money
mythology
(9,527 posts)4. Based on what?
Hekate
(90,690 posts)2. I hope he gets a nasty sunburn, too. What a loser.
VOX
(22,976 posts)5. I like the irony in that.
May his pasty, caucasian self get blistered by Old Sol as a fit punishment.
Croney
(4,661 posts)3. Wow, they really take racism seriously there.
Meanwhile, here in the U.S....not so much. 🙁