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Controversial columnist David Bullard has been fired by the Sunday Times. The axe finally fell on the ‘Out to Lunch’ column after his latest offering published this past Sunday, 6 April 2008, was criticised for being racist.
While the Sunday Times editor is denying any ‘other’ hand in the dismissal of Bullard, speculation doing the rounds at two key industry events last night where leaders in the media, marketing and advertising industry were assembled—the annual Apex Awards and John Farquhar’s 80th birthday party celebration—was that political pressure has been brought to bear on the Sunday Times with Government threats to pull advertising. This is being denied by the Sunday Times editor, Mondli Makhanya, today.
Many in the industry felt that this was an opportunity for the Sunday Times to “get rid of Bullard” as he became more and more vocal in his criticism of the Government and the ruling party, the ANC.
Makhanya reportedly said it was about “values” and that Bullard’s column no longer fitted in with the values of the Sunday Times.
According to a senior writer who was with Bullard at an event he was MC-ing last night, Makhanya fired him over the phone due to his “racist column”. Says the journalist, “Surely the buck stops with the editor? If he or she thinks any copy is unsuitable or racist or whatever, he or she should pull it, not fire the journalist!k .&bnsp. .. Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought that columnists were entitled to express their opinions?”
Others have countered that Bullard’s column was indeed offensive and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he was finally fired.
Bullard has worked on a freelance contract basis for the Sunday Times for 14 years. He hit the headlines last year when he was shot and severely wounded in a robbery at his home.
(Posted on April 14, 2008)
Uncolonised Africa Wouldn’t Know What It Was Missing
David Bullard, Times (Johannesburg), April 7, 2008
Imagine for a moment what life would be like in South Africa if the evil white man hadn’t come to disturb the rustic idyll of the early black settlers.
Ignored by the Portuguese and Dutch, except as a convenient resting point en route to India. Shunned by the British, who had decided that their empire was already large enough and didn’t need to include bits of Africa.
The vast mineral wealth lying undisturbed below the Highveld soil as simple tribesmen graze their cattle blissfully unaware that beneath them lies one of the richest gold seams in the world. But what would they want with gold?
There are no roads because no roads are needed because there are no cars. It’s 2008 and no one has taken the slightest interest in South Africa, apart from a handful of botanists and zoologists who reckon that the country’s flora and fauna rank as one of the largest unspoilt areas in a polluted world.
Because they have never been exposed to the sinful ways of the West, the various tribes of South Africa live healthy and peaceful lives, only occasionally indulging in a bit of ethnic cleansing.
Their children don’t watch television because there is no television to watch. Instead they listen to their grandparents telling stories around a fire. They live in single-storey huts arranged to catch most of the day’s sunshine and their animals are kept nearby.
Nobody has any more animals than his family needs and nobody grows more crops than he requires to feed his family and swap for other crops. Ostentation is unknown because what is the point of trying to impress your fellow citizens when they are not impressible?
The dreaded Internet doesn’t exist in South Africa and cellphone companies have laughed off any hope of interesting the inhabitants in talking expensively into a piece of black plastic. There are no unsightly shopping malls selling expensive goods made by Asian slave workers and consequently there are no newspapers or magazines carrying articles comparing the relative merits of ladies’ handbags.
Whisky, the curse of the white man, isn’t known in this undeveloped land and neither are cigars. The locals brew a sort of beer out of vegetables and drink it out of shallow wooden bowls. Five-litre paint cans have yet to arrive in South Africa.
Every so often a child goes missing from the village, eaten either by a hungry lion or a crocodile. The family mourn for a week or so and then have another child. Life is, on the whole, pretty good but there is something vital missing. Being unaware of the temptations of the outside world, nobody knows what it is. Fire has been discovered and the development of the wheel is coming on nicely but the tribal elders are still aware of some essential happiness ingredient they still need to discover. Praying to the ancestors is no help because they are just as clueless.
Then something happens that will change this undisturbed South Africa forever. Huge metal ships land on the coast and big metal flying birds are sent to explore the sparsely populated hinterland. They are full of men from a place called China and they are looking for coal, metal, oil, platinum, farmland, fresh water and cheap labour and lots of it. Suddenly the indigenous population realise what they have been missing all along: someone to blame. At last their prayers have been answered.
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A picture of the Editor-in-Chief of the Sunday Times:
http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/trench/files/2007/08/mondli.thumbnail.jpg
Don’t forget a black editorial staff was respectful enough of a diversity of opinion to allow the column to be published. But just like in the US, they had to bow to more powerful forces.
Posted by Moderate Multiculturalist at 6:34 PM on April 14
This guy is brilliant. Methinks AmRen should invite him to their next conference.
kc
Posted by KC at 6:53 PM on April 14
“Suddenly the indigenous population realise what they have been missing all along: someone to blame. At last their prayers have been answered.”
My God, this is true wherever blacks live.
Surely this guy knew the response he would get. He must have been planning an exit before he wrote it.
Posted by Nordic at 8:25 PM on April 14
“There are no unsightly shopping malls selling expensive goods made by Asian slave workers…”
In a more perfect world run by us paleoconservatives, Bullard might have been fired for writing that, instead of for being a racist. I bet SA would be a lot better place.
Posted by I should have taken the blue pill. . . at 8:27 PM on April 14
Holy Miron of Schkrepkoutz. This Bullard guy is brilliant. Who in his right mind would fire him? Of course he is getting a little bitter. But as (I think) Lichtenberg observed, a hitting aphorism presupposes a hitten aphorismatic. Things would be funny were they not so serious. I´d say Bullard´s comment is bitter out of a sense of both love and desperation. South Africa is a sad spectacle - and it can only be watched…
Posted by nokangaroos at 8:44 PM on April 14
David Bullard’s column is pure genius. It could easily be applied to indigenous complainers anywhere.
Posted by at 9:30 PM on April 14
Every so often a child goes missing from the village, eaten either by a hungry lion or a crocodile. The family mourn for a week or so and then have another child.
I read in an old magazine that Africans are routinely killed by crocodiles. Someone suggested to them that they could reduce the death rate by dipping a bucket attached to a long handle into the river to fetch the water they needed. For some reason this suggestion was met with disinterest, and so the deaths continued. I don’t see a magazine article being this frank today (and I’m surprised it was then).
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 10:05 PM on April 14
Nice article! No wonder he was fired.
Posted by jewamongyou at 10:41 PM on April 14
You could just as easily make a post of how the blog Why South Africa Sucks was taken down.
http://southafricanhell.blogspot.com/2008/04/wsas-phoenix-rising.html
Posted by at 11:27 PM on April 14
Whats the under/over date for the newspaper going out of business when theres no qualified whites to run the presses? Clearly there’s no editorial talent when a columnist is fired because his views no longer “fitted”!
Posted by at 11:27 PM on April 14
What if someone in America wrote a similar article in MSM about what life would be like for blacks, if all whites and other races suddenly vanished? They would take a beat down at least ten times worse than what Imus got.
But that type of thinking isn’t allowed in the land of the free, at least not in the MSM.
Posted by bouttyme at 1:42 AM on April 15
The author pointed out that without contact with whites present-day Africans (not to mention Amerindians and Aussie abos) would still be living a stone age existence with the life expectancy of cavemen.
No wonder he was fired.
Posted by Madison Grant at 1:47 AM on April 15
Yes. It’s almost as if some super yet malicious intelli-
gence genetically programmed Blacks towards resentment of their
superiors. Thus their role would be as destroyers of corrrupt
civilizations. Any civilization that was stupid eneough to import
them and then stupid eneough not to see the peril in time would
then be quickly eliminated. Alicia Keys agrees with me except
she thinks it’s all good.
Posted by Leif the Lucky at 2:43 AM on April 15
I don’t read the Sunday Times (or any other South African newspaper, since they all became “transformed” i.e. replaced their white staff with blacks), and I haven’t been following Bullard’s career. I do remember that, after he was shot by intruders in his heavily-fortified home, he continued to write the same liberal tripe as before, lambasting any knuckle-dragging racists who dared suggest that black rule might have had something to do with his experience. This article does not seem to be typical of his work.
Maybe his brush with reality is finally breaking through the brainwashing. Liberalism is, as many have posted, a mental disease, but it is curable.
Posted by AnalogMan at 4:29 AM on April 15
Me thinks communist China is behind the cleansing of the white South African population. They are moving the whites off with racial egalitarian ploys and displacing them with themselves.
These folks won’t molly coddle the blacks they will wipe them out as soon as they get a foothold. The goal is the natural resource rich land and oil that blacks lack the mental capacity to exploit. If Hitler and Tojo had this little piece of real estate they would have conquered the world.
Posted by Tim Kennerly at 6:31 AM on April 15
jewamongyou wrote: “Nice article! No wonder he was fired.”
Yes, the blacks in Africa have their own version of the ADL, and the US, with the help of MSM is busy working on a special Black Antidefamation League. The thought police are in full force everywhere as is evident from Google’s pulling of the Why South Africa Sucks blog. Google google’s top executives. These are the world’s new thought monitors.
Posted by at 11:22 AM on April 15
The author pointed out that without contact with whites present-day Africans (not to mention Amerindians and Aussie abos) would still be living a stone age existence with the life expectancy of cavemen.
No wonder he was fired.
Don’t put the Native Americans in the same boat as these ones, after all we come from Asia, and there are more right-brained peopled among Amerindians then among any other groups throughout the world. We would have figured it out sooner or later.
Posted by Thunderhawk at 11:35 AM on April 15
“If Hitler and Tojo had this little piece of real estate they would have conquered the world.”
Exactly. Imagine an Africa with say 600 million Germans or 600 million Japanese (And no blacks). What a prosperous civilisation it would have been! Would have easily left the USA in the dust. And on top of that it could still reserve a large chunk of the continent as a permanent nature reserve.
Posted by at 7:17 PM on April 15
I notice that Bullard’s article is not available now. I wonder why?
Posted by Proactive at 7:27 PM on April 15
“Don’t put the Native Americans in the same boat as these ones, after all we come from Asia, and there are more right-brained peopled among Amerindians then among any other groups throughout the world. We would have figured it out sooner or later.”
I agree with Thunderhawk. Native Americans were definitely in a higher state of development than Africans and Papuans. Native Americans mastered many European ideas readily like use of horses. Africans rarely did that.
Posted by Jasper at 6:38 AM on April 22