Post by cjm on May 11, 2015 17:39:12 GMT
www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/10/22/what-has-become-of-boer-racism
STEREOTYPICAL right-wing Afrikaner racism seems to have vanished. Along with most black commentators who presume the omnipresence of Afrikaner racism, I assumed little had changed in "Afrikanerdom". Why had disappearing Afrikaner racism eluded me? When I told my English-speaking Kenyan wife of 35 years about my recent encounters with many representative Afrikaners, she asked a question I had not considered hitherto. "Do you regard yourself as an Afrikaner?"
"Yes," I replied after deep thought.
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STEREOTYPICAL right-wing Afrikaner racism seems to have vanished. Along with most black commentators who presume the omnipresence of Afrikaner racism, I assumed little had changed in "Afrikanerdom". Why had disappearing Afrikaner racism eluded me? When I told my English-speaking Kenyan wife of 35 years about my recent encounters with many representative Afrikaners, she asked a question I had not considered hitherto. "Do you regard yourself as an Afrikaner?"
"Yes," I replied after deep thought.
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