"Spur incident was racist too." This is what I can't stand about Grootes, including his 702 Midday Report, editorialising based on his often tendentious worldview. WAS the Spur incident racist? Spur has had a change of heart.

It's ironic, and indicates Groote's and his like-minded colleagues' lack of self reflection, that he refers to BP flaming racial flames when by making judgemental comments like this - including his comments at the time on Midday Report about Gareth Cliff and "racist" coffin attack cases - he has contributed to a media and social media storm that has helped polarise SA society and race relations. And this is happening without BP, as he said. He's asking BP to look at themselves, but will he and his colleagues - incl here on DM; we know who they are - self-reflect? No, never.

I stopped reading Grootes a while back because most of his pieces involve, not news or analysis, but speculation. I think he lacks credibility. I was wrong to even try and read this.