Interracial poster by S. African youth group stirs debate

[Liberal_in_LA]

Interracial poster by S. African youth group stirs debate

An interracial poster distributed on college campuses by the student wing of South Africa's Democratic Alliance has (intentionally) caused an uproar by raising sensitive issues of politics, race and sex in the country's post-apartheid society, The Globe and Mail reports.

The newspaper says the South African media was dominated by heated debate among politicians and commentators within days of the poster's appearance.

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[Schema Thing]

1. So that's what the kids are calling it.

My debate is still working just fine.

[TahitiNut]

2. Looks good to me. (VERY good.)

But I'm just an olde phart. (I remember having a libido.) (She's hawt.)

[hifiguy]

10. I concur in your every particular.

[Ecumenist]

3. What's wrong with this photo? Looks like me and my husband, (I'm a little lighter IN

tone-caramel) but it looks just fine.

[ceile]

4. "In our future, you wouldn't look twice"

[pampango]

5. When I was a kid, people here would have looked twice. Thankfully, not so much anymore. n/t

[DCKit]

6. Sure they would. That's a hot couple! nt

[highplainsdem]

7. Beautiful photo of two beautiful young people.

[Confusious]

8. I'd probably look twice

To check out the woman and to see what kind of guy she was with.

[TheWraith]

16. I'm pretty sure that most people would look twice.

That's one hot couple, right there.

[bigwillq]

9. Great photo (nt)

[JNelson6563]

11. I think it's beautiful.

[Number23]

25. I was just thinking the same thing. A really tasteful, beautiful poster

with two very nice looking people in it.

[vaberella]

12. OMG!!! How sad?! They stole that cover from an interracial romance novel.

That picture is super years old. I don't get the controversy.

[Aristus]

13. "Wouldn't look twice". I beg to differ.

I sure as hell looked twice! She's gorgeous! And, okay, I 'm straight, but he's pretty good-looking, too.

Has anybody else ever done this?: any time I see an inter-racial couple, I just automatically assume they're liberal. But that's not necessarily true, is it?

[TheWraith]

17. Really, fuck you.

And fuck anyone who thinks like you.

[Rex]

19. Enjoy your stay.

[polmaven]

27. I, for one, hope

that poster did NOT enjoy his/her stay.

[MineralMan]

20. Moronic. But you can't reply to this any more, can you?

That's some ugly shit you're spreading there. Smells bad, too.

[Rex]

21. Smells like a huge load of bullshit

and DU ain't a'buying it!

He Trolled poorly...

[msanthrope]

23. Smells like a bad, frozen pizza overnuked and burnt. nt

[joshcryer]

29. I want to see the jury on that and the comments by the 2 who left it!

WTF!

[Ruby the Liberal]

32. Here ya go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/124037374

[joshcryer]

33. On top of thanks as usual, Ruby. Thanks.

You're our H&M investigative reporter.

[Ruby the Liberal]

36. I was on the jury.

Good riddance to bad trash.

[malaise]

22. Listen well

We all came from the African race - get a life

[marmar]

24. No worries.....Our friend's stay was short-lived.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=280356

[Rex]

18. I love that pic and am jelly of the fella!

She's beautiful. I wish I was in his shoes! IMO, people that see skin color as some kind of 'hinderance to humanity', need to examine what it means to be human and in love.

LOVE IS COLORBLIND!

DEAL WITH IT.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

26. Agree with all of the above.

(Except the mentally ill guy of course.)

[DavidDvorkin]

28. The only change I would make

is to have the man be blond. That way, white South Africans would tend to think he was an Afrikaner. Then they'd look at least three times.

[RZM]

30. LOL. On the troll who was PPRed for posting on this thread

He probably didn't do his homework on this one. The poster comes from the Democratic Alliance, which is more or less the white opposition to the black ANC (I think there is a smaller black opposition party too). He seemed to be arguing that this was an anti-white poster, but that's not at all the case. Since whites are a minority in South Africa, they are the ones urging tolerance and racial harmony, etc.

[sakabatou]

31. She looks a bit like my girlfriend

Except the woman in the poster has much shorter hair.

[HeiressofBickworth]

34. It's a lovely picture

but if they wanted to really cause a stir, they could have tapped into the standard racist fear of a black man with a white woman.

I used to have a standing argument with my moon-bat crazy mother. She said that children of a mixed marriage are the ones to suffer. I told her there would be no suffering if racists like her would just mind their own business and leave them alone to live their lives like anyone else.

[nobodyspecial]

35. That's an excellent reply

I need to file that one away in my brain.

[RZM]

37. Except this is S. Africa

It's a black majority country. Blacks run the show and whites are their minority. It's far more controversial to depict a white man with a black woman for the same reason that the opposite is true here.

The poster was produced by the main white opposition party.