He said if it had been a white man depicted in that way, the reaction would have been very different. As far as many people were concerned, black people were just objects, he said.
“I said how about the idea of going to court tomorrow and as we sit there we can take off our trousers… we can walk around with our genitals hanging out… it’s crude,” he said.
The party was going to the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday to try and compel the Goodman Gallery to take down the painting, and City Press to remove a photo of it from its website. “We have not outgrown racism in our 18 years,” Mantashe said – according to SAPA.
We say – let’s get some paintings of white politicians with their crown jewels hanging out and test his theory. Why not start with old Kortbroek van Schalkwyk because he is not only white, he also represents the entire political spectrum in South Africa having started on the right wing as a Nat working his way to the left chasing the best political jobs.
