Thank you Mr DiCaprio

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2007)

As a South African I can finally take pride in a deeply flawed character, a bastard of a man, who is and will always be African.
For years I have struggled to come to terms with the notion of an "African-American" or other PC variations of being black or white or purple or yellow or brown or green... people are people, and they are defined by their environment.
I always have a little chuckle when people refer to me as "European", as I have no real connection to Europe at all. Over a hundred years ago my great grandfather and his wife travelled to Cape Town - I have never met them and actually don't know too much about them. All I know is South Africa... Africa and its people. Even through the flawed (and emotionally angry) Danny Archer, we can see an ultimate truth: Be you black or white, if you are born in Africa, live in Africa, you are African... it gets under your skin, coursing through your veins.
To my fellow South Africans. Lets get together and unite, appreciate where we come from and lets make it a better place. You are not European and I am afraid you never will be... deal with it!