Divisive aspects like race? What are we united by that we maybe divided by race? And who does your use of "our" in "our cause" take along, considering that you've said race is divisive? is our cause one for all races?
You ask what we are united by.
Well, would you say we are all united by the lack of service delivery and suffering due to the rampant self-enrichment at the expense of the poor? This isn't a black or white thing.
I live in a white hood, where the trash has been piling up in the streets for the past three weeks and hasn't been collected. We often don't have water, because of infrastructure decay.
When I go to the hood I grew up in, I see the same problems. No white folk there. Are they allowed to complain, but us and our white neighbours aren't?
Dealing with issues such as these is a cause for all races.
I wrote a story last week, about kids in kids literally dying of hunger in Naledi municipality in the Free State.
http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Kinders-sterf-van-honger-in-Naledi-owerheid-wis-nie-daarvan-20101030There are white people living in the township there, trying to feed these kids. Should we disregard their pleas for government help, because they are white?
You would be shocked if I were to post some of the pics I took there. Little kids who look like they live in a Ethiopian refugee camp, rather than a town less than 100 km from Bloem.
Then we sit here and talk about race as if it matters. And we blast someone for saying something when there are people out there buying R1 million cars, instead of food for the poor.
f*** anyone who thinks this makes sense and tries to justify it.