Can you provide some background to your experience growing up in South Africa and to what compelled you to become a refugee rather than go along or accept the racist system of your country?
Growing up in South Africa, which had instituted a legalized system of racial discrimination and oppression, and had attempted to present that system as a natural and inevitable order of social relations, that should be depoliticized for both the oppressed and the beneficiaries of a suffocating colonial system of entitlement, it became clearer over time that my views about that system, out of necessity, had to be politicized in order to make sense of and deconstruct the mendacity of what was happening. And how I was raised as a child in a system of privilege.