But we have to be careful how we use the past. Last week's column European fascism, for example, gazed into a distorted mirror of the past to attempt to construct an excessively ugly future. Mr Mazwai was supported by some dark, sometimes unsigned voices that thought that I had gone too far. It seems you consider the issue of racism on a piece-meal basis, looking at the personalities involved. That is missing the point.
Racism is an institutionalised phenomenon in South Africa.
And the fact that he supported all or some of your causes does not matter, since they in no way threatened his privileges as a white person. Throughout apartheid South Africa, there were whites saying 'some of my friends are black' and 'we had coffee in Soweto'. It still exists in the incarnation called the Democratic Party. Either you have fallen into this trap or are being ignorant of what racism is all about. Otherwise it is a case of singing for one's supper.