that's a white person talking there
No man, I'm black. Don't you know black is the new black?
capetonian688 (I take it you call yourself capetonian since you identify with or originate from cape town... and obviously your parents came from cape town, and obviously your grandparents come from cape town, and clearly their parents also come from cape town since, say, were any such ancestors to have come from KZN you would obviously
not be a capetonian... ) --->
on a more serious note, part of the victory over apartheid is in the victory over the state's right to classify people in the very way you advocate... geddit? Claim victory over apartheid by acting in a manner
super-apartheid (the word 'super' meant in the latin sense of the terminology i.e. 'above' or 'beyond'). capetonian - I'm saying transcend apartheid. As the saying goes, "in fighting evil be careful not to become evil".
Seriously, the whole 'white people can't call themselves African' thing REALLY pisses white people off, 'cos it's like on the one hand it's all "go united multi-racial democracy" and on the other it's like "you white beeatches are just sort-of 'visiting' this continent, you're not really of it". Just like apartheid stripped blacks of the political right to identify with their homeland (remember how Bophu-something-swana was considered a 'different country' in the eyes of the apartheid state, and how it was on this basis that the lack of voting rights for blacks was defended in the international arena...?), so too does your perspective strip whites of the political right to identify with our homeland. There's no difference.... in fighting evil be careful not to become that which you fight...
bwana, as a professional Euro-American (assuming you are white), or professional African-American (in case you are black), or a professional Asian-American (assuming you have dominent Asian hereditory), or a professional Latino-American (assuming you had Latin-American ancestors who, at the time of your birth, had not been resident in the USA for a period exceeding that which, under the normal course of law, said law would have considered such ancestors to be naturalised persons on account of their period of residency... and so on...)... are we in SA obsessed with race? Assuming a yes answer, necessarily or unnecessarily?
