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Is This Rap Song “Hate Speech”?

November 12, 2011   Controversies, Culture, International, Music

The song “Shoot The Boer” is causing a stir in South Africa due to the outlaw of any singing our quoting the of song. The controversy is no improvement to the racial tensions existent for years in South Africa and this song adds insult to this tension.

After a suit was won against a youth leader for this hate speech, it was reported that “Judge Collin Lamont went further than AfriForum, the white rights group that brought the hate speech suit, had demanded by saying that all South Africans, not only Julius Malema, should refrain from singing “Shoot the Boer.”

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