{"id":218,"date":"2005-04-29T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/29\/its-better-to-be-white-in-south-africa"},"modified":"2005-04-29T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:29:57","slug":"its-better-to-be-white-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/29\/its-better-to-be-white-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Better to be White in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4958'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/images\/whilion.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"226\" align=\"left\">SOUTH AFRICA: 2 GUILTY OF FEEDING VICTIM TO LIONS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A judge handed<br \/>\n          down murder convictions for a farm owner and an employee who were accused<br \/>\n          of beating a rural laborer and then throwing him to 20 rare white lions.<\/p>\n<p>\n          The farmer, Mark Scott-Crossley,  and his employee, Simon Mathebula,<br \/>\n          were said to have attacked Nelson Chisale with knives in January 2004,<br \/>\n          after Mr. Chisale, who had been fired, came to collect his belongings.<br \/>\n          Mr. Chisale was tied to a tree and beaten, then driven to the lion<br \/>\n        enclosure and thrown over its fence. Only part of a skull, a few bones<br \/>\n        and shredded<br \/>\n          clothes remained when the police searched the pen. Testimony never<br \/>\n        established whether Mr. Chisale was alive when he was tossed to the lions.<br \/>\n        The spectacular<br \/>\n          case was held up as an example of continuing racism. <\/p>\n<p><em>Racism, just because they gave the guy to WHITE lions? Showing some<br \/>\n        sort of favoritism over regular brown or tan lions? Isn&#8217;t that taking<br \/>\n        Political Correctness a lit-tle too far?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/29\/international\/29briefs.html?\"> the<br \/>\n    New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH AFRICA: 2 GUILTY OF FEEDING VICTIM TO LIONS A judge handed down murder convictions for a farm owner and an employee who were accused of beating a rural laborer and then throwing him to 20 rare white lions. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/29\/its-better-to-be-white-in-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}