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Cape Town, 1836 · The Long Thaw
The Cape Express
By John Fairburn (player)
I was walking down the street of Cape Town early this week and I couldn't help but overhear a nice young Afrikaner boy, speak poorly of an Xhosan boy. We abolished slavery but for what? Are our newfound citizen brothers and sisters still free to live in our enlightened society? I am not sure.
What does it mean to live within our colony along the Cape? Some, like this boy who no doubt have been educated with these beliefs by his father, believe we are an Afrikaner nation. Our newfound, freed citizens must assimilate. And some on the fringe might even detest abolition entirely and wish to return to a pure ethno-nationalist, white-only state. It is very concerning.
This rhetoric from us Afrikaners make us look like barbaric invaders from a foreign land. In order for our state to survive, our people, the Afrikaners, must work together with our fellow man in the Xhosans and continue to build a better Cape. This ethnic purity movement building from abolition serves no good purpose and I question the parents of our fine nation who teach their children such vile rhetoric against their fellow citizen.
If you have an Xhosan neighbor in a neighborhood near yours, I recommend meeting with them in the streets of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Swellendam or any where you can meet your fellow citizen and have a conversation with them. Get to know your brothers and sisters of the Cape, so we can better coexist together. You don't have to sit down at the local white-only pub with them, but simply... speak with them. Understand them.
