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Article: TO A BLACK AMERICAN, CAPE TOWN'S RACIAL PAIN IS TOO FAMILIAR.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1999
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Byline: NATHAN McCALL
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA -- The world is full of contradictions. It's easy to remember that truism if you find yourself, as I did recently, sitting in a trendy white Cape Town restaurant listening to Martha and the Vandellas singing ``Dancing in the Streets.''
As a black American visiting South Africa for the first time, I hardly expected to hear soul music blaring from the loudspeakers of establishments that stand symbolically as vestiges of legal white privilege. That was a surprise. But then, in the short time I've been here, I've discovered that Cape Town is teeming with surprises and, of course, contradictions.
I've ...