How Chris Roper Carries the Water for UCT Lecturer Lwazi Lushaba

Writing in BusinessLive.co.za, Chris Roper expresses anger at the cherry picking of journalists and says it is unfair to take a 12 second clip of a 55 minute lecture. He is correct. But he does not stay on the side of the angels very long.

In his anger he blames journalists for their blind spots, selective editing and superficial investigating. Yet, he defends Lushaba's huge whoppers. One need only spend 30 seconds searching for information on the U.S. Constitution to see that Roper is guilty of the very things he attacks others in the media for: superficial research. Simply reading the 13th Amendment would reveal just how wrong or dishonest Lushaba was. Lushaba said the following (according to Roper):

"the very same law may be interpreted by people differently … There was never a law enacted in America to prohibit slavery. All that changed was that the category ‘human’ in amendment 14 was expanded to include black Americans."

Unfortunately for Lushaba and Roper, who it seems made no effort to check that whopper, the 13th Amendment in fact does ban slavery:

"Abolition of Slavery

Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865. The 13th Amendment changed a portion of Article IV, Section 2
Section 1

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

There is much more wrong with Lushaba's lecture but I'll need to make additional videos to cover the problems.