The row caused by Diane Abbott’s dreadful letter was depressing, but just as sad was what it revealed about modern racial politics, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
Applying Rhodes’s racial capitalism to post-1994 South Africa obfuscates the entire matter of what former president Thabo Mbeki called the ‘black bourgeoisie’ whose creation, consolidation and expansion has been one of the only successes of the democratic era.
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