I don’t get the sometimes New York Times columnist. Last week, he connected (some would argue, equated?) growing up white in Apartheid South Africa with growing up black in Apartheid United States:
Perhaps they resonate because, having South African parents, I spent part of my childhood in the land of apartheid, and so absorbed as an infant the humiliation of racial segregation, the fear and anger that are the harvest of hurt — just as they are, in Obama’s words, “the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.”
I swear. Cohen often comes up with the wierdest arguments.
[...] The weird world of Roger Cohen I don’t get the sometimes New York Times columnist. Last week, he connected (some would argue, equated?) growing up white in Apartheid South Africa with growing up black in Apartheid United States: Perhaps they resonate because, having South African parents, I spent part of my childhood in the land of apartheid, and so absorbed as an infant the humiliation of racial segregation, the fear and anger that are the harvest of hurt — just as they are, in Obama’s words, “the brutal legacy of slavery [...]
[...] The weird world of Roger Cohen I don’t get the sometimes New York Times columnist. Last week, he connected (some would argue, equated?) growing up white in Apartheid South Africa with growing up black in Apartheid United States: Perhaps they resonate because, having South African parents, I spent part of my childhood in the land of apartheid, and so absorbed as an infant the humiliation of racial segregation, the fear and anger that are the harvest of hurt — just as they are, in Obama’s words, “the brutal legacy of slavery [...]