Cheaper quotesnThobani thus: “Thobani also condemns us for daring to present “whiteness” as “vulnerable.”” the irony of Thobani’s diatribe against whiteness is that, in the Indian cultural view, all Indians consider themselves white, having descended from Aryan stock. There was an outcry on the Left the other day when Gov. Nikki Haley checked the ‘white’ box. Haley was merely being consistent with Indian cultural thought, no matter how dark the skin of the Indian in question. Thus, Thobani, of dual Canadian and American citizenship … If anything should affirm her whiteness, that should … finds herself in the infelicitous position of being outside looking in. Her color, in these lands, declares what she is not. So, she embraces the rebellious anti-West view of herself as other and rails against what she wishes she were. Having rejected Tanzania, or is it Kenya? Thobani finds herself in the precariousness of a no-man’s land with no recourse but to condemn what she would be whilst she ignores what she is. Thobani is Frantz Fanon, Alberto Memmi, and Paulo Freire run amok.
