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We concluded how his knowledge of Williams or Clarence Thomas or Armstrong Williams or you-fillin-the-blank didn't really matter, since it's all the same. Chamusso isn't a journalist, and wasn't during apartheid. But like Williams, he was once called a sell-out to his own people, a spineless interloper looking out for himself at the expense of Black folk as a whole. For Chamusso, it was for actions he didn't take. For things he didn't say.
As friends disappeared into the night never to return, as white South African police raided the townships on search and destroy missions, as torture became the rule of interrogation, Chamusso lived his life as though those things did not exist. He'd landed a foreman job at an oil refinery in secunda and wasn't about to screw that up. He had a wife and kids to support, a car, a house - not huge - but a little bigger than the shacks most considered home and had the luxury of walking into a store and saying "no" to a kid's toy not because he couldn't afford it, but because he simply didn't want it.It was then Chamusso felt rage, and the truth, leaving his life to join another one with the military wing of the ANC whose strategy of dismantling apartheid was systematic bombings of installations like the oil refinery. Catch a Fire, starring Derek Luke as Chamusso and Tim Robbins as a decision maker in the country's Police security Branch, isn't the typical hero's movie, particularly from South African apartheid perspective. It's the story a man pushed to become a freedom fighter by the very suppressive government that was trying to stop it.See the full content of this document
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The Redeeming Soul of a Former Sell-Out
Lately, I've watched journalist Juan Williams bend over backwards, in print and on television, to defend his views on race solutions in this country - how the conclusions in his howto-help-Blackpeople book, Enough, fall on the finger-pointin' conservati...
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