Why..?
“I’d like to see more, a lot more black surfers try surfing,” he said. “Access can be a problem. It can be expensive to buy a board or get surf lessons. It’s a shame.”
I'm sure it's expensive for everyone.
Siyanda grew up in South Africa, where his father, activist and surfer Tom Hewitt was the founder of Surfers Not Street Children, which worked with homeless street children and introduced them to the sport. “I was five or six when I started,” said Siyanda. “All the kids who were surfing were black.”
Errr, well, yes. In case you haven't noticed, South Africa has a huge black population.
Which, despite the prevalence of minorities in adverts and tv shows, the UK hasn't...
So dad's an activist, eh? That tells us a lot...
When Tom Hewitt and Siyanda’s mum, Bulelwa, re-located to the UK, they set up in north Devon because of its world-class breaks. “It wasn’t quite the same here,” said Siyanda.
Well, no. It wouldn't be.
Tom Hewitt said since the Black Lives Matter movement, surfing across the world had been thinking hard about its image.
Has it really? I doubt that, somehow...
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“I’d like to see more, a lot more black surfers try surfing,”
Translation: I think black people should be given preferential treatment (as in everything else) and free surf-boards (and ancillary equipment) and when they (predictably) still aren't as good and can't compete, the whites should be handicapped, or just banned altogether.
You know why Thomas Sewell and Ben Carson are so celebrated? Not for anything particularly insightful of wise they say, but because ... the fact that they are black and 'don't' think using race as an excuse, or rent-seeking opportunity, makes them almost unique. Other than them, can you honestly name another black who 'doesn't' sound like a pathetic, whining, mercenary child when ever they open their mouths?
[ditto, women, muslims, gays, etc.. It's almost as if the 'only' people who accept self-responsibility and act like adults are ... white men].
Black Waves Matter...
Jaded
"can you honestly name another black who 'doesn't' sound like a pathetic, whining, mercenary child when ever they open their mouths?"
Legions!
Unfortunately they're all fantasy creations.
Didn't Surf advertise that it made things whiter?
Penseivat
“I’d like to see more, a lot more black surfers try surfing,” he said.
Surfing was invented by the Polynesians, so isn't that cultural appropriation?
"Translation: I think black people should be given preferential treatment (as in everything else)... "
That is, indeed, what it always seems to boil down to.
"Black Waves Matter..."
😂
"Legions!
Unfortunately they're all fantasy creations."
Or ordinary working folks who don't attract media attention.
"Didn't Surf advertise that it made things whiter?"
👏
"Surfing was invented by the Polynesians, so isn't that cultural appropriation?"
I wouldn't be surprised to see someone raise that in the 'Guardian' but we all know who the target would be, don't we? And it's not this lad.
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