text: Saddest of all is how casual comments that polarise and divide are defended and accepted with attempts at pushback or being even handed are threatened with being shutdown. One of the things admirable about Nelson Mandela, now vilified in many quarters, is that he made every attempt (in my view) to unite SA and step away from the easy target of blaming and allocating characteristics based on race., even though he may have held very strong feelings on a more personal level  I don't think he's copied much, unfortunately and certainly not by the writer of this piece. But the race card is just too easy.
  
  Secondarily for me is how, like Israel and Palestine, there is no middle ground. Either you support Morake (and Malema, Khumalo et al) and condemn Barnard or vice versa (condemning Chris Hart, Helen Zille et al). So the sad cycle continues. Who will rise above it?