Spur Incidence 21-March 2017
We cannot forget that we live in a country where, just 23 years ago, unwarranted violence towards people of color was accepted as the norm. It's ironic that the video went viral on Human Rights Day, day where we commemorate the slain black bodies whose only crime was protesting the discriminatory laws of the land. We’ve just be exposed to yet another traumatizing racist act. The nation by feet’s and shocked by a white man who attacked a black at Spur restaurant in The Glen mall in the Texamo Spur at the Glen Shopping Centre, east of Johannesburg. A video of a white has been widely shared of social platforms across the nation. The argument turned violence. In the video, a man tells a woman to “disciplined “a child he claims to had hit one of his children. He threatens to slap the woman. He shoved a table at her. The man has been since been banned from spur. Both we rude, although being rude is not the same thing as being a racist, the woman accused the man of bei