South African cricket's anti-white quotas

[Matra1]

Througout the 90s South Africa had one of the best cricket teams in the world. In recent years the team has declined and they've lost a potential star of the future because of
racial quotas.

Here's some of the text:

Kevin Pietersen has spoken of the heart-breaking decision to leave South Africa in pursuit of an international career with England.
Pietersen felt he was forced out of the country of his birth at the age of 20 because of the racial quota system.

This meant non-white players were fast-tracked into cricket teams and he was dropped by Natal.

"I was dropped because of the quota system brought into South African cricket," Pietersen said.

"It was to positively discriminate in favour of 'players of colour' and to fast-track the racial integration of cricket in the country.

"To me, every single person in this world needs to be treated exactly the same and that should have included me, as a promising 20-year-old cricketer.

"If you do well you should play on merit. That goes for any person of any colour.

"It was heartbreaking," he said in the Daily Mail.
Edited by: Matra1

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

wow! imagine what would happen if a white football or basketball player in America said something like this...

 

[Matra1]

On Canada's headline sports channel, The Score, the cricket panel - a Pakistani and black from the Caribbean - ridiculed the South African quota victim. The Pakistani when asked for his reaction held his finger and thumb together and said something like "that's the world's smallest violin" and then said Pietersen's attitude was probably to blame for his lack of success in South Africa. The Caribbean analyst was furious and called Pietersen "a punk" and then went on about the history of oppression and the poor South African blacks and coloureds (mixed race) who didn't have the same opportunities. He did not mention that blacks are not keen on cricket whereas it's huge in white communities.

One of the interesting things about South African cricket was that after apartheid sanctions ended the all-white team required no time to catch up to the rest of the world. One would've expected a country that for a couple of decades was denied any competition at the highest levels of the sport to have fallen behind the rest of the world. Yet they re-entered international cricket as one of the top 2 teams. Now South
African cricket is in decline.

 

[Matra1]

wow! imagine what would happen if a white football or basketball player in America said something like this...

That's just it Jimmy: I can't imagine it! Maybe one of the Croats or Serbs in the NBA, but not a white North American.

Incidentally, Steve Nash, the two-time NBA MVP "Canadian", is originally from South Africa - a country where no one plays the sport.

 

[white is right]

They also have this policy for Rugby and Soccer. Rugby has had the same problems.....