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Please do not misrepresent the history of this article, User:DianaW. If what you said were true, I would have to have been the person who originally wrote the section on Gordimer's being robbed and beaten by three black men. As anyone can easily ascertain by studying this article's history, and as you well know, I was only the last of several editors to write, maintain, or modify that section, without removing it. The others who worked on it  who outnumbered you and your confederates  either didn't feel like wasting their time on a flame war with your group, or were unaware of your vandalous campaign. So much for your mythic statement about ""community opinion."" (The term for the rhetorical dodge in which one claims  popular support for an opinion, is ""bandwagoning."" There is probably a separate term for the parallel strategy of portraying dissenters as lone cranks, but I don't know it offhand.)

By the way, when I thought about the actual event, as opposed to your group's flame war against anyone seeking to report it, the notion that the incident had no racial significance became ever more ludicrous. First, because you would never have denied the racial significance of a white-on-black attack, and secondly because I have no doubt that the attackers expressly targeted Gordimer because of her race. As anyone who follows life in South Africa knows, such daily race-based attacks, and official indifference towards them, are a part of the institutionalized fabric of that nation's life. People who oppose racism seek to publicize such systemic racial violence. Unfortunately, there are quite a few folks at Wikipedia who seek to suppress all knowledge of black racial violence.
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