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Holding a mirror to whiteness

THE bulk of my time on social media is spent exchanging thoughts – sometimes insults – with members of a group I founded on Facebook with the stated aim to fight racism.

Getting various groupings of South Africa’s Rainbow Nation to see an issue through the same prism is like pulling teeth – painful.

Sometimes I fear that it would never happen because hardly anyone ever offers to climb onto the dentist’s chair and open wide.

In a group like BlackForum, accumulating tens of “Likes” is a cinch, especially if

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