

“Jonny has a theory that South Africa are doomed to choke in every major tournament for the next fifty years as payment for apartheid. He also believes that England will spend centuries working off their colonial sins by performing miserably at sport. I then ask him why Australia, who wiped out generations of Aborigines, win everything in every sport, and he shuts up.”
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“When a New Zealand journo, with a nose resembling the beak of his national bird, asked me why Lankans have long names, I told him I would rather have a long name than a long nose. He replied he'd rather have a long you-know-what. Such is the insightful cricketing analysis that goes on in the press box.”
― Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
― Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

“Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”
― Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
― Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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