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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 742837" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>that point might stand up if all things are equal, and they are not. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Exceptions to the system doesn't disprove the system is fundamentally broken.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right, it is up to the Government, but Rugby and SARU is one of the biggest symbols of pre-aprtheid South Africa, as a sport that is often claimed to have united the nation, it feels wrong that their are not the pathways to bring a larger percentile of the indigenous population through.</p><p>It is a symbolic sport, SARU should be doing more.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think the players are being accused of being racist, the SARU are and it's probably a valid claim in as much as they have failed to get rugby into the areas populated by blacks.</p><p></p><p>It is a sport that is symbolic of decades of oppression on the most horrible of levels you can't just say those years don't matter now because the kids don't remember it. The people in charge certainly do and it should be addressed.</p><p></p><p>That's not to say Quotas are the way to go, but there is certainly a valid accusation that SARU have not met their obligations in developing the sport in the black community. of course it goes deeper than just the sport but there is a very good reason for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 742837, member: 71068"] that point might stand up if all things are equal, and they are not. Exceptions to the system doesn't disprove the system is fundamentally broken. Right, it is up to the Government, but Rugby and SARU is one of the biggest symbols of pre-aprtheid South Africa, as a sport that is often claimed to have united the nation, it feels wrong that their are not the pathways to bring a larger percentile of the indigenous population through. It is a symbolic sport, SARU should be doing more. I don't think the players are being accused of being racist, the SARU are and it's probably a valid claim in as much as they have failed to get rugby into the areas populated by blacks. It is a sport that is symbolic of decades of oppression on the most horrible of levels you can't just say those years don't matter now because the kids don't remember it. The people in charge certainly do and it should be addressed. That's not to say Quotas are the way to go, but there is certainly a valid accusation that SARU have not met their obligations in developing the sport in the black community. of course it goes deeper than just the sport but there is a very good reason for that. [/QUOTE]
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