We are legion and we are coming to get you! Paranoia is very much part of the SA psyche. A lady looking for a place to rent asked me if crime was a problem for the area? and then if blacks were a problem? Well we all know that black people are much more likely than white people to be noisy, dirty, thieves, who will take bribes as they have no morals. That they have no interest in leading the kind of lives that us good upstanding white folks do. The theory of skin colour been merely a result of centuries of adaption to ones environment is just that. A theory. People are black so that you can spot the trouble makers a mile off. Simple.
South Africa sees itself as the Rainbow Nation. At times though we all too politely choose to ignore the chance to affirm that vision by pretending to be deaf. Yes I should have told her to get lost, that we didn't want her 'type' round here, but what did I do? In an early morning stupor I meekly showed her around the house.
