We are living through a race-obsessed period in a race-obsessed country. This obsession comes out in everyday conversations and permeates academic analysis. In these perverse times Indian fresh produce traders need to have the meat taken from their mouths and have to hamba home, back to Bombay;black workers are made to drink their piss, recorded on camera by white students, whites, in their presence, have to be humiliated as abelungu and blacks behind closed doors as kaffirs. - - - -