kettlepot wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Err..I'm a hypocrite for pointing out the hypocrisy of him calling somebody a 'great white hype' and using the florid language of a Western educated elite whilst being rabidly racist to anyone who isn't Kenyan?
You’re a hypocrite for pointing out his racism and then saying that his English is too good to be a product of Kenyan education.
What has a judgement upon the Kenyan education system got to do with somebody referring to the skin colour of an athlete and implying that he is genetically inferior because of that skin colour ('great white hope')?
You really think Kenyan schools in English classes are teaching their pupils to use phrases such as 'O ye salty losers'? And I'm a racist to think otherwise, or that El K must have acquired that kind of turn of expression through an elite Western private school??? I would say the same about a Russian or a German or any other supposedly non-native English speaker. In fact, I'd say it about a working class white person. I'm working class, I'm intelligent enough to have gotten to a very good university, but I would never use language that El K does all the time, all though I do recognize it from some of the elite rich people I mixed at in university (including African sons of ambassadors etc).