Black and white: New labels to make South Africans happy

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Hell it's been "black" this and "white" that for the past couple of weeks here on Thought Leader with Gillian Schutte, myself and others jumping on the bandwagon.

In fact between Gillian and I have lowered the level of debate to something you'd read on that other much less intelligent riff-raff blog hosted by a big news provider.

We get passionate about race and any form of categorisation in this country and we love to generalise while telling others not to do so. As a result our nation-building project takes a good four steps back every time we sokkie one step forward.

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Black and white: New labels to make South Africans happy

Hell it's been "black" this and "white" that for the past couple of weeks here on Thought Leader with Gillian Schutte, myself and others jumping on the bandwagon.