and down to the beat. “Go Hit-ler!
Go Hit-ler! Go Hit-ler! Go Hit-ler!”
We’d have the whole crowd in a
frenzy, a thousand people in the
street chanting along with their
hands in the air. “Go Hit-ler! Go
Hit-ler! Go Hit-ler! Go Hit-ler!”
—Hitler, although an unusual name,
is not unheard-of in South Africa.
Part of it has to do with the way a
lot of black people pick names.
Black people choose their
traditional names with great care;
those are the names that have
deeply personal meanings. But from