One of South Africa’s most acclaimed comedians, John Vlismas, is bringing back his sold-out show of 2016, Revelations 2: The Good Racist.
Vlismas’ show is at the Lyric theatre in Johannesburg on Friday and Saturday.
.@GoldReefCitySA is the place to be this Friday & Saturday… #TheGoodRacist @fortyshort will be bringing the 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/UqBb5NgJI8 pic.twitter.com/mn1ChDkD2r
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This year I decided to look at the nature of racism, and as a white person, take responsibility.
— John Vlismas, comedian
It’s not your Penny Sparrows that we really need to worry about. It’s the long slow structural racism that’s really holding us back. That’s the stuff I wanna remind people about because we have convinced ourselves that’s not racism.
— John Vlismas, comedian
There are jokes. I know it sounds like a very serious topic. Hopefully in 90 minutes, we will get through a lot of thinking and laugh hard.
— John Vlismas, comedian
Listen to the full interview with him below…
Source: Primedia Online
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