Quota vs Merit Selections - What the people say

 Quotas has got nothing to do with AA, and all to do with revenge.

Quotas are an opportunity for politicians to develop their own political careers by getting media attention.  
I am not sure why, because it seems from a few polls that most people do not favor this. Although, it is hard to say how accurate these polls are. 

 Claudy... I'll happily support an all non white Bok team, if they were the best in their position.  Rugby people wants their teams to win. Some of the most popular players in SA in recent years were non white.

 
Black Empowerment Policies in the work place ... any form of Affirmative Action ... and of course quotas in sport ... is racist.

Anyone who says it isn't, is a racist himself.

I know it might be a little difficult for the snivelling coward to accept ... but there are more racist black folk in this country than white. A lot more. 

Some companies go as far as to only allow a certain population group (blacks) to own and buy shares in their company.

And we're singled out as racist? Bah!

Interestingly though, most white folk who support these policies ... who are also part of the finger pointing brigade ... the politically correct ... those you find mouthing off the loudest about what's unacceptable etc, have roots abroad. Dual citizenship.

They can flee at any time. Return their families to countries like Wales in times of war ... while the rest of us duck for cover.

Stuns me to think that they have the right to stir up dissention and flee.
 




 

DbDraad
 
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Posts: 5954RE: Quota vs Merit Selections - What the people say
July 29, 2017, 08:37:19

 Claudy... I'll happily support an all non white Bok team, if they were the best in their position.

 100% agree with you here Db

 Has anyone questioned why quotas were introduced? 
If you personally had the power to choose an alternative to implementing quotas, what would you do?

It is quite easy to understand why quotas were introduced. We were sitting with a large part of the population who were not prepared to accept that there was a need for a natural evolving of the make-up of the teams. Remember that the traditional black schools did not promote rugby and cricket at all. They immediately wanted representation in the national sides. There was an alternative though. They could have accepted the above and also have accepted that it takes time for a rugby player to become an international level rugby player. They should have introduced a program to introduce the game to kids at the lowest and earliest level. These should have introduced to the schools and the parents as well. Remember that almost each and every white and coloured kid's parents were also rugby fanatics and they encouraged and supported their rugby playing kids. The black kids' parents did not have same affinity to the game that the white and coloured parents had. What made rugby in the "white" schools such a big thing? The support of the parents. Nothing less. That, combined with male teachers who really knew the game and was as passionate about the game as well. Many of those teachers were actively playing the game while teaching and coaching rugby. The black kids had no access to any such luxury. White parents were filling the sports stands and they were lining up next to the sports fields at every game. They arranged and organised fund raisers and worked their butts off to raise monies for sports tours. The communities were involved in supporting the local schools' sports as well. Sadly, you had none of these in the black communities. Yes, I agree 100% that the black kids did have a raw deal in that they did not have access to the above but that is life. There was no quick fix to the situation but the fixes that SARU and the govt tried were doomed to failure right from the start. Rome wasn't built in one day. The govt and the people wanted as many as 50% and more black representation in the Bok side. Fact is that both SARU and the govt stuffed up. It has always been my opinion that I can understand why they introduced quotas, I just do not agree that there was a need for it. The real need was to start at the bottom with the black kids and make every effort to raise awareness and a love of the game both among the kids and their parents. Instead there was a constant animosity towards the national side and the white/coloured communities when it came to rugby and cricket. Maybe not so much towards the coloured community as such, I don't know. Having said all of that, what amazes me the most is the fact that there is no outcry about the fact that there is no Asian people involved in rugby. Not a peep.