‘8B. Sunday, August 25, 1985 - : North Shore “News

WHITE: VIEWPOINT -

Free speech - for blacks only

TELEVISION documentaries tell you a lot about
the attitudes of the people who make them.

‘In the Western world, for
instance, you are unlikely to
get more than a token Arab
“point of view on an item in-
volving Israel. Nor are you
likely to get anything that
fairly explains the’ predica-
ment of the white in South
Africa.

get this
straight

unight, ‘that ‘President:

Botha made his big speech:

. onthe. situation -in South”.
“Africa; ‘therefore, <I.would’
witched off; the set’.

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'the’news; not’ being

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But: ‘Knowlton: :Nash said.
: there’d be... documentary:
it: would: ‘include a white:

be. covered .at, North Shore:

‘council "meeting include the ;

following topics:

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spokesman in Johannesburg.
So I stuck around.

I should have know better,
but I fet myself be suckered.

The program opened with
Big Bad Botha saying he
wouldn’t let himself be
pushed around, which took
five seconds, Then it was
over to Zambia, where an

African National Congress .

man was given an easy five
minutes. He was asked
about the ANC’s links with
the USSR, but. when he said
that they were no different

‘from his liaks with Sweden,

the interviewer didn’t even
laugh. And let the subject
drop.

Over to: “Washington, - to
the South African am-

-bassador. Four minutes : for
‘him. But ambassadors ; are

useless in such shows
they never ‘say

That chore completed, it

twas time to sell some; beer
“Meow :
‘Mix’’, Then four minutes of
anti-South African film.

‘and a bunch of

Shots of shanty towns, as if

isuch things and worse do not

xist all over Africa. Shots
‘of militant miners, but no

“mention that ‘they have .a
higher standard - of . living

than any-..other. black

“workers on he whole conti-

nent. Shots of. Sharpville,

"Shete’s ‘the “guy: ‘from’.

‘Johannesburg? ' Here he’ is,

He’ s shown .

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screen with Andy ‘Young, the
black mayor of Atlanta who
became a world-class clown
when he was U.S. am-
bassador to the U.N.
Tonight, Andy goes on
about racism for four
minutes and 15 seconds.

At long last the South
African gets to open his
mouth.. He’s a youngish,
smart-looking guy who rep-
resents the South African
Conservative Party. Which
is not in power.

He gets a big one minute
and forty-five seconds. uae

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it’s back to Young, believe it
or not, for another one-
and-a-half minutes. Young is
asked what should be done
about South Africa and he
Says that Western countries
should deny landing rights to
any planes operating out of
that untouchable country.
That might do the trick, he
says.

Back to the guy from
Johannesburg? Not quite.
He gets to say good night,
and the show is over. The
look on his face indicates
very well, though, that he is

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aware that he too has been
suckered. He was the CBC’s
token white.

Total time for the bad

white guys, five minutes and '

45 seconds. Total time for
the geod black guys, the
CBC’s point of view, and
Meow Mix, 19 minutes.

It could be, of course, that
white South Africans and
such like don't have -any
opinions worth presenting,
they being too busy boozing
and having the blacks wait
on them. Then again, they
might have something inter-

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esting to say.
Will we ever know?

a eae .
Paul Fromm, research
director for Citizens for

Foreign Aid Reform, an ex-
cellent speaker, will give a
talk at North Van’s Interna-
tional Plaza Hotel Monday
night at 7:30 p.m. in Salon
A. Fromm is a Toronto Tory
who doesn’t think much of
Mulroney. The title of his
speech: ‘‘The Conservative
Promise Betrayed’’. Don’t
miss it. It’s free, but: there
will bea collection.

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