JONATHAN JANSEN: When are we going to grow up and realise not all blacks think the same?
'There is no typical black person. You will find black people of every political conviction and every religious persuasion'
How do you know apartheid was successful? By listening to how black people talk about other black people. The recent headline that the new interim provincial leader of the DA in the Western Cape, Bonginkosi Madikizela, was “the perfect stooge” is simply one in a long line of biting attacks on blacks who think for themselves. It is a sickening tendency in our civic discourse that reveals nothing more than a stubborn political immaturity in the body politic. In this reasoning, all blacks think the same thoughts, vote the same way, listen to the same music, speak with the same accents, and support the same political party.
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