Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Anxious and conflicted: Afrikaners await a post-Mandela world

i wonder if this is true of everyone else's experience. i see functions,
get-togethers, events, all the time in which the racial divide is not
like this, where many many different people from everywhere, racially,
but also ethnically, are mixing. and this mixing is particularly true
for young people, all the time. less for older folks.
maybe i see this through the narrow optic of my college town, east
lansing. but it is also true of lansing, which is not at all a college
town. and it is true of new york, for sure.
where it might be less true is in the suburbs? i don't know. but when i
went to dallas for a conference a year ago, i was impressed by the
extent of mixed-race couples there on the street as well.
and charleston, s.c., as well.
ken


On 12/8/13 7:01 AM, Ikhide wrote:
> And the rainbow nation? "There's still a division between the races in this country. You go to any function and see the people are split. I have some black friends, but 99% of my friends are white because we share the same culture."
>
> Might as well be describing America!
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/07/afrikaners-nelson-mandela-south-africa
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

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