{"id":68234,"date":"2018-07-09T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68234"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:41:08","slug":"harpers-fate-today-for-making-racist-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/harpers-fate-today-for-making-racist-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper\u2019s fate today for making \u201cracist\u201d remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Mpepho:<\/p>\n<p>The fate of Mike Harper, an expatriate who made a \u201cracist\u201d remark against a Malawian domestic worker will be announced today.<\/p>\n<p>The Malawi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/deport-racist-expatriate-hrcc\/\">Human Rights and other activists are demanding that government deports Harper<\/a> for describing a Malawian as a slave on a Facebook forum for expats in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a hearing at the Malawi Human Rights Commission. Harper was in attendance with other stakeholders and it was decided that the verdict will be announced today,\u201d said Robert Mkwezalamba, chairman of the Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services also attended the meeting that summoned Harper last week.<\/p>\n<p>Harper\u2019s troubles all started when another expat, Pennie Ginn, posted on a Facebook forum for expats, complained about losing a good domestic worker in Gloria Misesa if she relocates to another duty station.<\/p>\n<p>Many responded to her comments but Harper\u2019s comments reeked of racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey why don\u2019t you take your slave with you? Just a thought,\u201d was Harper\u2019s response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Mpepho: The fate of Mike Harper, an expatriate who made a \u201cracist\u201d remark against a Malawian domestic worker will be announced today. The Malawi Human Rights and other activists are demanding that government deports Harper for describing a Malawian as a slave on a Facebook forum for expats in Lilongwe. \u201cThere was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68237,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234\/revisions\/68237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}