The House of Truth

By Ryan Fortune | Published 16m ago

You can tell that he truly believes, like his pals Errol Musk and Gary Player, that he is saying something original, profound, and important. The tragedy, of course, is that his audience takes his words as gospel truth, scurrying home to warn their friends and family of the rising black menace. Very few of them will ever conduct their own research. If they did, they would quickly recognise that Hersov’s message is little more than a modern repackaging of 19th-century pseudoscience — ideas mainstream about 250 years ago, when European powers needed to justify the violent excesses of slavery and colonialism.