Journalism and the Orange Broederbond
Picture this
We are still in South Africa. The World Cup is still on and a right wing, fundamentalist Protestant militia called the Broederbond (a white supremacist organisation which has fraternal links with Ireland’s Orange Order and related masonic lodges) has decided to exploit the media vuvuzela around this international soccer tournament to profess its right to hold a “Trek” through a black township. Why? Well because when the whites first planted the country this was one of their traditional routes and their rights as white settlers have to be upheld at all costs.
The worldwide liberal media is up in arms with correspondents waxing indignantly about racism, the history of white colonialism and the curse of social systems based on Apartheid. The heroic struggle of the indigenous blacks, whose dress, languages and customs were banned, gets special features in all media outlets.
Meanwhile in the North of Ireland, the British settler militia...
... (the Orange Broederbond) continues to push its annual six month long Trek through native Irish areas and where is the focus of those same media outlets?
Not on 400 years of a racist plantation policy; not on 400 years of heroic resistance by the natives (God Forbid); not even on the explosive gifthorse that is annually lain at the door of dissident republicanism.
No, the focus is on young native Irish delinquents and the fact that they are throwing stones instead of being tucked up in bed.
Will somebody wake me up when this nightmare media insult to my intelligence is finally over?