Institutionalised racism has created the concept of  "Us"and "them" throughout history of South Africa, which culminated and was re-inforced by apartheid. How and can we get over it ? My personal feeling is that we cannot, whether is is white on black, or black on white, whilst we continue to official define people based on race at birth, there will be an awareness of race, a grouping based on race and therefore racism will always be present. Human nature is such, if you are having difficulty in succeeding, blame it on somebody else, whether it is a white guy who says he can't get a job due to EE employment or a black guy who says he can't get an executive position because of white executive control.