This one is beyond us. Our feeble intellects are simply not capable of comprehending the thinking behind this.
All these years we thought South African apartheid was evil, that the intentional exclusion of one race by another was unacceptable. But then how do you explain the fact that a race-based football team from Australia has been selected specifically to play South Africa? And how do you explain the fact that it’s being applauded?
The Age reports the odd turn of events as if they don’t see any irony in it:
An AFL match will be staged as an exhibition event at the Africa Games in Mozambique in September. It will be between a team from South Africa and an Australian Aboriginal team.
So apartheid is evil unless you’re segregating the races to play football against South Africa in Africa and the race being excluded is caucasian in which case it’s all dandy.
Surely, there’s some logic in there somewhere. We’re just having trouble finding it.
http://youtu.be/X_hqosNvv5E
By the way, if you’ve never seen Aussie rules football, you don’t know what you’re missing. It’s like the NFL without pads or the NBA without rules. Don’t know how the players survive each week’s games.
Source: The Age
