What is it with some white South Africans' penchant for living in an a-historical bubble? Gumtree, the South African Craigslist, is running an ad for an apartment in Randburg, a former white suburb of Johannesburg (with about 30% black residents) to which only "young white professionals" are invited to apply; then people who should know better (journalists, researchers) think Apartheid wasn't so bad after all. Now there's a Cape Town company that--in the name of subversive "art"--designs products using a slave ship drawing from a 1788 abolitionist broadside (chances are you've seen it). Yes: a graphic of a slave ship packed with slaves, intended to depict the inhumanity of chattel slavery, is now printed on dresses, aprons and ironing boards (which they actually refer to as "slaving boards").
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