Kaffir Boy Journal #2 On Racial Relation

Who would have thought that White people would fight for black’s rights or to fight against slavery? Not just white people but American white presidents. They were against slavery, at least a few of them were. The rest were black people fighting for their rights. And here I thought whites would never fight for a different race other than theirs. Anyway the things they did really touched my heart a lot. Presidents went to war to fight against slavery. That is a really big step. If only the white people here could just maybe abolish Apartheid because it is not helping anybody really. At least that’s what I think. Why is there separation in the first place? Who came up with the idea that blacks are not equal anyway? Whoever it was, I would really like to give them my piece of mind. With all that I’ve seen with white people, I would have continued to think whites had no heart and that they were just mean people. But that is not even totally true. Even though you would see black kids with torn clothes, dirty torn shoes and kids were dirty I feel like things will get better soon. The white’s world was like paradise compared to the ghetto. In the white side of world, you would see ladies in all white things, from a white hat to a white dress, and shoes. It was like they were angels or something but soon we will look like angels too. Maybe someday I can go to America and spend around that Black South Africans need help. We need people to know what is really going on down here. Because if someone doesn’t nothing will change anytime soon since we blacks are not doing anything either. Oh I hope tennis will get me far so that I can travel the world and help my country some way or the other. Maybe I should write a book and make sure it gets to all the countries in the world. Or maybe I will become a leader of something, not necessarily this country since we are not allowed to anyway. My dreams and goals really keep me going everyday otherwise I would have no hope whatsoever for this country at all. Either way, I just hope I get a scholarship so I could go to college and learn harder things and maybe, just maybe, would I attend college in America.