Nice white lady

I AM this babe. Picture me in my classroom (MTB 99).

This is a spoof of teacher-cleans-up-the-inner-city genre. Thanks also to erica for her interpretation of the material.

WATCH IT (click here!)

Sins of the fathers

More seriously, my mom's landlord (she has one and a half junk/antique shops) says last night, after the painter got locked in the building, "The problem with these blacks is that they beg you for a job and then want to be spoonfed the whole way through!" - this from someone who benefited enormously off the apartheid economic and education system, about someone who really, just didn't. It genuinely shocks me... and I'm ashamed to say I didn't say anything, that time.

Itz Mary (ItzMaryItzMary)

Then there's my mom... she calls in her workers yesterday to find out who broke the chair, and says to them "Listen guys, Martin and I, we are not the boer. we're not going to hit you if you break something ok?" My mom gets away with at times a truly cringeworthy turn of phrase... she compensates by being one of the most generous and compassionate people in the whole world (fact. research has shown.).

Some of my best friends are "People of your culture"

There's this lady Gillian on my course. She's fully old. And wears crazy hats. And says lots of irrelevant things, in a weird colonial accent... annoying - but very entertaining. Halfway through rambling on about Percy Shelley in the middle of a Mary Wollstonecraft seminar, she looks over at Nandipha (black, female, first language english speaker, private-schooled english graduate, highly intelligent) and pulls out this line about "people in YOUR culture" and proceeds to tell her how 20 years ago black girls would come to her while she was sitting in her garden and tell her about their problems.. and she would educate them. Bless her soul.