Facebook Photo of White Man with Black Child's Body Shocks South Africa

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A photograph uploaded on Facebook (http://www.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/372/facebook/) of a white South Africa (http://www.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/511/south-africa/)n man posing like a hunter near an apparently lifeless body of a black child has created a furore as South Africa (http://www.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/511/south-africa/)n police try track him down.

The man has a Facebook user profile with the name "Eugene Terrorblanche," an apparent play on the name of Eugene Terreblanche, an extremist Afrikaner leader murdered last year, and has 590 "friends" as of Saturday. Authorities are yet to confirm the authenticity of the undated picture and have not ruled out the possibility of photograph manipulation.

According to the South Africa Sunday Times, which first report (http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/08/28/wanted-facebook-racist)ed the story, the search is now on for the person or persons responsible for the picture, for whoever created the user profile and for those who have seen the photograph but failed to report it.

Surprisingly, the photo was uploaded June 24, 2010, but went little noticed until now. It took more than a year to be spotted by authorities as none who saw the picture reported it or posted a comment condemning it.

Regardless of whether the picture is fake, "everyone party to the posting" and those who have viewed the image are under a potential prosecution threat, authorities said.

Human rights groups have expressed their concern for the child in the picture who could have been wounded or dead.

The director of Women + Men Against Child Abuse, Miranda Jordan, said she found it "incredibly disturbing" not knowing the child's fate.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing ... this is sickening and disgusting. Is this child hurt? Is he dead? Who would take this kind of picture?" she said. "This hate image incites racism that almost all South Africans have fought so hard to eradicate."

Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa's spokesman, Zweli Mnisi, said the minister has ordered an "immediate investigation" and called on the man in the picture - or anyone who recognized him - to come forward to assist in the probe.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/205136/20110828/facebook-racism-hate-crime-south-africa-white-man-hunter-photograph-eugene-terrorblanche-user-invest.htm

[Curtis24]

The guy looks like an asshole, I hope they get him.

[billErobreren]

What a douche

[SwordoftheVistula]

Probably fake, posing by a passed out niglet or something. Still funny though :D

[Mercury]

Regardless of whether the picture is fake

Picture is obviously photoshopped. If the guy put up the photo to be funny, then I don't see anything wrong with it from a legal perspective. But I can understand authorities looking into it to make sure what's going on.

[SilverKnight]

This is wrong very wrong, it has to also be taken into consideration that SA whites are suffering more, no matter how wrong they did in the past they have changed but now many Africans are nailing them back.

[rhiannon]

OMG. That picture is sickening. It is not even remotely funny....whether the thing is doctored or not.

[Loki]

those who have viewed the image are under a potential prosecution threat, authorities said


Bizarre :rolleyes:

[SwordoftheVistula]

What will he be charged with, illegal use of KFC as bait?

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[SilverKnight]

What will he be charged with, illegal use of KFC as bait?



Lame.
Not funny at all.

[Mercury]

Picture is obviously photoshopped. If the guy put up the photo to be funny, then I don't see anything wrong with it from a legal perspective. But I can understand authorities looking into it to make sure what's going on.

I just want to clarify my post. I know it's probably illegal to say anything racist in South Africa. But morally, I believe in total freedom of speech/expression, unless it's slander or threatening.

[Raskolnikov]

I thought the shocking photo of "White man with Black Child's Body" was going to be like this:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3804/1234znn.jpg

[rhiannon]

I thought the shocking photo of "White man with Black Child's Body" was going to be like this:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3804/1234znn.jpg

So did I at first. I gasped in horror when I saw the photo....and how people can even make jokes about this sort of thing is utterly beyond me.

[Loki]

The guy is obviously not very bright. Due to South Africa's racial sensitivities he was bound to get into trouble. He basically just ruined his whole life and traded his future for a few laughs.

[Sahson]

Lame.
Not funny at all.


OMG. That picture is sickening. It is not even remotely funny....whether the thing is doctored or not.

Forgive me... While you and other forum member's might have a high moral ground, etc. but I found it rather hilarious, along with Sword's comment. I guess I have gallow's humour though.

Most placid jokes tend to be lost on me...

[BeerBaron]

its not funny, it's downright hilarious.

[rhiannon]

Forgive me... While you and other forum member's might have a high moral ground, etc. but I found it rather hilarious, along with Sword's comment. I guess I have gallow's humour though.

Most placid jokes tend to be lost on me...

Actually, my humor is as sick as yours, Sahson....unless the victim of the humor is a child. This picture, while probably posed, looks too frightening, and frankly, plays on some of the deeper hatreds I have witnessed on here by some posters.

That is why the pic is so upsetting.

[SilverKnight]

Actually, my humor is as sick as yours, Sahson....unless the victim of the humor is a child. This picture, while probably posed, looks too frightening, and frankly, plays on some of the deeper hatreds I have witnessed on here by some posters.

That is why the pic is so upsetting.

There are limits/barriers in life, and some folks around here don't seem to have them.

[Ibericus]

Looks photoshopped.

[Rosenrot]

Not funny at all. The person who did the picture is sick.

[Curtis24]

The guy is obviously not very bright. Due to South Africa's racial sensitivities he was bound to get into trouble. He basically just ruined his whole life and traded his future for a few laughs.

welcome to facebook.

[Guapo]

Pic is totally shopped.

[Curtis24]

If that's true, than the South African government is stunningly incompetent.

[Hevneren]

As tasteless and insensitive as this picture is, I'm also concerned with the fact that people viewing this picture or commenting on it may be subject to prosecution. In this sense, the picture not only violates people's sensibilities, but it may in fact endanger people's civil liberties too. :(

[Grumpy Cat]

I hope that guy has fun in the unemployment line, for the rest of his life. The kid too, probably. Dumbass.

[Smaland]

If what is suggested in the picture actually occurred, then the man should be punished according to the law, which should prescribe the death penalty.

But ... blacks are murdering whites in SA, and this photo plays right into the hands of those who want to keep it going.

[Rochefaton]

Just one more piece of evidence that the world has become full of oversensitive pussies that are holier than thou.

[Grumpy Cat]

I don't think the kid is dead, this seems like a sick joke. Also I think the Facebook page is also a sick joke. The name "Eugene Terrorblanche" is actually borrowed from an obscure Die Antwoord track dissing Eugene TerreBlanche. Whether it is a racist, or anti-racist page, though, it's still in bad taste.

[Aces High]

Seems ok though for the prez to sing "kill the bhulu" though...:rolleyes:

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[Phil75231]

Regardless of whether the picture is fake, the fact remains that it IS a disgusting photo. I grew up in a town as far from liberal as you can get without leaving the USA. Yet even those who called other racial groups inappropriate words and made outright racist jokes would NOT find humor in THIS photo.

[Falkata]

I don't think the kid is dead, this seems like a sick joke. Also I think the Facebook page is also a sick joke. The name "Eugene Terrorblanche" is actually borrowed from an obscure Die Antwoord track dissing Eugene TerreBlanche. Whether it is a racist, or anti-racist page, though, it's still in bad taste.

Terreblanche was actually murdered at his home by 2 blacks with an axe last year. However that crime was basically forgotten in Europe while the picture of this moron with the kid is everywhere :confused:

[Grumpy Cat]

Terreblanche was actually murdered at his home by 2 blacks with an axe last year. However that crime was basically forgotten in Europe while the picture of this moron with the kid is everywhere :confused:

Yeah and I have a feeling if it was a black guy posing with a white child (equally sick) it wouldn't be on the news.

[Black Sun Dimension]

I'd like to shake this man's hand and give him a Montecristo cigar.

[Grumpy Cat]

I'd like to shake this man's hand and give him a Montecristo cigar.

Well, it'll be easy to find him: the unemployment office (like I previously said). Posting pics like that on Facebook is just dumb.

[Grumpy Cat]

The name "Eugene Terrorblanche" is actually borrowed from an obscure Die Antwoord track dissing Eugene TerreBlanche.

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He accused him of being a child molester.

[The Ripper]

I say, I can barely contain my shock and outrage.

[Black Sun Dimension]

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/307477/la-foto-del-racista-sudafricano-en-facebook-tiene-tres-anos-de-antiguedad/


Nairobi, 29 ago (EFE).- La foto aparecida en Facebook de un blanco sudafricano que posa con un rifle junto al cuerpo de un niño negro supuestamente muerto tiene tres años de antigüedad y ya fue investigada en su momento, informó hoy el medio local Iol News en su página web.

El semanario sudafricano Sunday Times publicó ayer en su portada la polémica foto que aparecía en el perfil de un usuario del Facebook que se hacía llamar Eugene Terrorblanche.

Sin embargo, el periódico local Beeld afirmó hoy que la unidad de elite de la Policía sudafricana ya investigó la foto en 2007, y que el hombre que aparecía en la instantánea dijo a las autoridades en su momento que pagó al niño para que posara.

La publicación de la foto ha causado un gran revuelo en Sudáfrica, un país que durante casi medio siglo ha estado gobernado por el régimen segregacionista del apartheid, que defendía la supremacía de la raza blanca, y que sigue viviendo una intensa tensión racial.

El Sunday Times, que tituló la noticia “Se busca a Racista de Facebook”, no concretó la fecha de la polémica foto del usuario Eugene Terroblanche, un nombre que hace alusión al difunto líder del partido ultraderechista sudafricano blanco Movimiento de la Resistencia Afrikáner (AWB), Eugene Terreblanche.

Sin embargo, el diario sí que apuntaba que no se sabía si la foto era de algo que realmente había sucedido o si había sido manipulada.

Por su parte, Mandy Wiener, una periodista sudafricana, aseguró ayer que ella misma publicó una noticia sobre la misma foto hace años.

“Me sorprendió ver la noticia en el Sunday Times porque yo informé sobre esa historia hace varios años”, afirmó Wiener en su cuenta de Twitter.

Ante la críticas recibidas, el editor del Sunday Times, Ray Hartley, defendió su decisión de publicar la instantánea a pesar de tener ya tres años de antigüedad.

“De lo que hablamos es de una imagen extremadamente racista que está publicada en Facebook ahora, en 2011. Debemos encontrar a la persona que ha publicado esta imagen”, apuntó Hartley.

Ayer, poco después de la publicación de la foto, las autoridades sudafricanas se apresuraron a asegurar que el asunto estaba siendo investigado por la unidad de elite de la Policía, los Hawks, pero que el asunto no debía relacionarse con el racismo.

“Aunque el niño de la foto fuera blanco y el hombre negro…(…) Un asesinato es un asesinato”, afirmó Zweli Mnisi, portavoz del ministro de Asuntos Policiales, Nathi Mthethwa.

Im surprised that this article made its way all the way to Venezuela.

[Falkata]

Conclusion: Owned

http://psystyle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/1owned.jpg


No wonder why europeans dont have any future. There´s a big drama in South Africa with whites being discriminated, killed,assaulted and forced to leave the country but our main preocupation is a 3 years old pic where a white dude paid a black kid to make a bad joke

Great! Preservation is on the right way! But not ours though :thumb001:

[AntonyCapolongo]

This photo is a fake. The little nigger have being paid to do this photo.

When the niggers kills and rape with hight brutality the White Afrikaners, no one is shocked, but when a White post a FAKE photo of a nigger hunted, everybody is shocked, pfff...

[Maximus]

What a loser..Fake picture or not. I bet he even refers to himself as national-socialistic.

[Sol Invictus]

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[SwordoftheVistula]

Assuming the pic is photoshopped, how do we know the guy in the pic is the one who made it? Quite likely not.

[rhiannon]

Conclusion: Owned

http://psystyle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/1owned.jpg


No wonder why europeans dont have any future. There´s a big drama in South Africa with whites being discriminated, killed,assaulted and forced to leave the country but our main preocupation is a 3 years old pic where a white dude paid a black kid to make a bad joke

Great! Preservation is on the right way! But not ours though :thumb001:

My abject horror and disgust would not change, no matter how this photo was posed....it could have been a black man and a white child and my disgust would remain as potent as it is to the pic in this post.

I think you are reading too much into some of the replies, here. Pictures like this, whether meant as a joke or not....are not fucking funny....AT ALL.

Any parent alive (and I am a parent) who is worth a damn is not going to take kindly at these kinds of pranks made as a means to find humor....not when the joke is about the death of a child. Because somewhere inside us all, we are thinking: It could be my child in that pic you all are laughing at.... Understand now?

[Aces High]

parent) who is worth a damn is not going to take kindly at these kinds of pranks made as a means to find humor....not when the joke is about the death of a child. Because somewhere inside us all, we are thinking: It could be my child, in that pic you all are laughing at.... Understand now?

Well i am a parent and quite honestly put myself up as a shining example to my kids as a good father.....and i found the pic to be quite funny.
The thing is of course is that its a black child which makes it funny.....if it was white kid im not so sure id laugh....but i probably would.

Then again i have a sick British sense of humour and found the pic below to be hilarious when i saw it too.....different folks....different strokes,

[rhiannon]

Well i am a parent and quite honestly put myself up as a shining example to my kids as a good father.....and i found the pic to be quite funny.
The thing is of course is that its a black child which makes it funny.....if it was white kid im not so sure id laugh....but i probably would.

Then again i have a sick British sense of humour and found the pic below to be hilarious when i saw it too.....different folks....different strokes,

Please tell me what is fucking funny about a child suffering???????????

Why would it be any less funny if the child were white? A child is an innocent being, undeserving of the lot many of them are dealt in this life.....as evidenced by the photograph of that child and the vulture.

I'm sorry. I can't fucking laugh at this shit. I'm kinda trying to choke back tears right now that people could find things like this funny.

:(

[Barreldriver]

As disturbing as the photo is I find two things strange, first that one could be persecuted for simply viewing the pic if this is true then anyone who clicked on this thread is in danger no? Second I don't recall much fuss in the media about Afrikaner farmer's, women, and children who were actually murdered, raped, and dismembered.

[The Ripper]

Second I don't recall much fuss in the media about Afrikaner farmer's, women, and children who were actually murdered, raped, and dismembered.

Talking about that is also likely to lead to persecution.

[Aces High]

I'm sorry. I can't fucking laugh at this shit. I'm kinda trying to choke back tears right now that people could find things like this funny.


Christ.....dont ever visit the UK then and go down the pub for a drink.....youd be on the next plane home looking like that Edvard Munch figure in the scream painting when you heard the jokes flying around.

We Brits pride ourselves on our warped sense of humour.......in fact i carry my sick sense of humour about on my chest like a campaign medal.

[Barreldriver]

Talking about that is also likely to lead to persecution.

Why? I did no wrong, the murderers of those families did. All I did was point out a double standard.

[Aces High]

Why? I did no wrong, the murderers of those families did. All I did was point out a double standard.

Yes but you arent supposed to do things like that in this day and age....i mean those Boer people are tyrants and oppressors and deserve all they get.....cut to SA riot police in the townships whipping the bleks....cut to SA riot police shooting down bleks at Sharpeville....cut to MTV clip of Peter Gabriel sing Biko with nelson and winnie dancing...etc etc.

Theres no double standard where white South Africans are concerned...theres a double double standard.

[The Ripper]

Why? I did no wrong, the murderers of those families did. All I did was point out a double standard.

Because you're not supposed to talk about that, you're supposed to talk about the Post-Apartheid rainbow success story that is SA.

[rhiannon]

Christ.....dont ever visit the UK then and go down the pub for a drink.....youd be on the next plane home looking like that Edvard Munch figure in the scream painting when you heard the jokes flying around.

We Brits pride ourselves on our warped sense of humour.......in fact i carry my sick sense of humour about on my chest like a campaign medal.

I can take the jokes when they are just spoken. Photos are something different altogether....and while I believe the initial photo which was the topic of the OP is likely doctored, the one you posted with the little boy and the vulture is real. I've seen that photo before....and I think that child (and you can see the poor thing's ribs sticking way out) might be dying, or starving at the very least. So, no, I cannot find ANY humor in that, because that kid IS suffering in reality.

You might be surprised, for I have a very sick sense of humor....but I can't laugh at dying kids in photos. This is where my *taboo zone* is, as it were.

Although....I've told my share of dead baby jokes. Verbally, only. Knowing full well they are absolutely as BASE as you can get.

You know that book *Truly Tasteless Jokes?* Those are the sorts of jokes I tend to find funny....and I do like a lot of British humor, believe it or not.

[Aces High]

the little boy and the vulture is real. I've seen that photo before....and I think that child (and you can see the poor thing's ribs sticking way out)

The joke isnt aimed at the kid so much,its a reaction of mass produced PC sobbing and hysteria at certain media images that we are meant to break down and cry at en masse when ever big brother see's fit to put them on the tv.

Its more of a confirmation that the man on the street is alive and kicking....and kicking back with his sick humour.

I saw pics on the net of thee so called tragedy in Haiti and within hours saw photoshopped pics of dead nigs being thrown through basketball hoops etc etc.

Just creative white people having their harmless racist fun.;)

[rhiannon]

The joke isnt aimed at the kid so much,its a reaction of mass produced PC sobbing and hysteria at certain media images that we are meant to break down and cry at en masse when ever big brother see's fit to put them on the tv. Quite honestly, I don't know how anyone could see those images and not cry. It has nothing whatsoever to do with PC, but everything to do with empathy and sympathy as a fellow human being.


Its more of a confirmation that the man on the street is alive and kicking....and kicking back with his sick humour.

I actually agree with this and totally understand it.


I saw pics on the net of thee so called tragedy in Haiti and within hours saw photoshopped pics of dead nigs being thrown through basketball hoops etc etc.

Just creative white people having their harmless racist fun.;)

Kinda wonder how those folks would feel if the pics were of dead white children? It bothers me to see the way many whites (in general) dehumanize blacks. It is not something I would do, myself.

[Barreldriver]

Because you're not supposed to talk about that, you're supposed to talk about the Post-Apartheid rainbow success story that is SA.

I know of the consequences for South Africans if they speak and point out the falsehood that is the Post-Apartheid rainbow success story, however as a foreigner speaking from outside SA would the standard of suppression still apply?

[The Ripper]

I know of the consequences for South Africans if they speak and point out the falsehood that is the Post-Apartheid rainbow success story, however as a foreigner speaking from outside SA would the standard of suppression still apply?

I think you are taking my tongue-in-cheek one-liner too literally.

But the answer is in all likelihood, no.

[Barreldriver]

I think you are taking my tongue-in-cheek one-liner too literally.

But the answer is in all likelihood, no.

:thumbs up I'm a bit disoriented atm so I'll be prone to miss certain subtleties for a while.

[Burgomaster]

I don't get why people are getting so 'worked up' by this photograph, it's a fake. I can see the funny side of it...was stupid to upload it to Facebook, though. Still...made me laugh. ;)

[Great Dane]

The photo is either posed or photoshopped. I'm not surprised that the South African government would give priority to this non-crime over actual crimes committed against whites in South Africa, it is weird that there is so much outrage against it at a European preservation forum. If you want to be morally outraged get mad about the real genocide against Boers in South Africa or the real black-on-white crimes against whites in England during the recent riots or the real crimes against white Americans this past summer by black flash mobs.

[SwordoftheVistula]

The city also cited him for illegal dumping of garbage

http://killfrenzykrew.com/web_images/I%20Guess%20This%20Is%20Just%20Some%20Poor%20Man%2 0in%20Haiti%20Trying%20to%20Clear%20a%20Hallway%20 by%20Chucking%20out%20Dead%20Bodies.jpg

[Black Sun Dimension]

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[Aces High]

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[Mago]

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/08/29/151726.jpg

Fake as hell. You can see the falseness around the knee. Definitely photoshopped.

[Piper]

The photo? Bad taste attempt at humour and obviously edited.

Funny to see the overall pearl-clutching reactions on the thread `tho. :p Much worse things happen during wars, or in Africa in general, than a white hunter being parodically depicted with such a "trophy".