We're Brothers, Episode 6: Every Native is a Tourist

A white rugby coach once suggested that Cheslin Kolbe should switch from outside back to scrumhalf because he was too small. In 2025, Kolbe is named South African Rugby Player of the Year. Sean and David note how a sport once associated with muscular whiteness is now dominated by black South African players. Louis Saha is seven times as wealthy as his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. Why do racists always say their best friends share the same ethnicity as their victims? David asks Sean whether black Americans would be better off moving to Africa—prompting Sean, as usual, to draw on history. A conversation about must-visit spots in New York City and Cape Town leads to David confessing that he once stole Sean’s copy of Jamaica Kincaid’s “A Small Place.”