The Times had an article saying the DA was in danger of losing white support due to all of this.  Sorry, but it's not losing mine, or those of my family.  Mmusi has my full support.

I'm not really interested in the rights or the wrongs of Helen's tweet.  Personally, I feel that any politician who tweets opinions deserves to be vilified, but that's another debate.  If, as a politician, she can't see that in most cases it isn't the truth that counts, it's perception, then she is deluding herself.  Perception is almost everything, and that tweet was perceived as racist.

You can't fight perception, not in this country, at this time.  So she should do the honourable thing, and step down gracefully.