The accusation that the Western Cape is not really African is code for saying that coloureds are not African; the Western Cape is too coloured and therefore the Western Cape is not African enough. Let's call out claims like this for what they are: racism.
This coloured thing. Shit this coloured thing. This badge of shame, disgrace and ignominy that some want to hang around people like me as they excoriate people in this group for not being fully African, or having feasted on the so-called benefits that apartheid had bestowed on them.
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