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My son and I didn't see eye to eye on the native question, John. In fact, he and I got quite heated about it on more than one occasion. But I'd like to see what he wrote.
My father and I didn't see eye to eye on the native question either, Mr Jarvis. You know, Mr Jarvis, there was no one in South Africa who thought so deeply about it, and no one who thought so clearly, as Arthur did. And what else is there to think deeply and clearly about in South Africa, he used to say.
I thought it was interesting how Arthur thought that there was nothing else in South Africa to think deeply and clearly about, that there were no other pressing issues, that this was it. Is "the native question" the same as questioning whether or not to have apartheid?
Any thoughts?
Post 5 Chapter 19-24
ReplyDeleteI do think that the "native question" is whether to have or to not have apartheid. I would associate the "native question" with the natives of Africa and the apartheid core issue regarded the black Africans. I agree with Arthur that the issues for the Africans dig way deeper than what appears on the outside. The crime and poverty didn't just happen but came about after years of cruelty.