Part of eradicating racism would be to eradicate the forced identification of oneself as a particular public and political products. - Samantha Vice

I have been characterised as a self-hating attention-seeker and directed to commit suicide.

Many white South Africans, including myself, are committed to contributing to South Africa. This is our home and at the same time we experience the tension of feeling we benefited from a long history of injustice and we wonder whether there is a place and role here for us now.

It is appropriate for white South Africans to feel shame because of their association with the brutality, oppression and dispossession that were part of the apartheid past, particularly when it is likely that they have benefited from it.