Why do white people throughout history think they're better than other people??? I'm often so ashamed to be in this skin. It breaks my heart the things that have been done to these other cultures that I happen to love.
An Indian woman from the hospital has taken the girls and I under her wing. She took us to dinner last night and on a tour around her town. She told us about her days as an activist for the end of apartheid. She had to leave the country because of the ways the government was hurting her family. She showed us these terrible places where the government moved all the Indians so that they wouldn't be living in the same areas as the whites. The Indians weren't even allowed to drive through the white towns or they would be shot. There were large walls to keep the white towns from even seeing the others driving on the highways. At first, the Indians had been allowed to sell beer in the white areas and the blacks weren't allowed to. An influential man in the black community said the Indians were making all this money from it and instigated violence on the Indian communities.
This was all so recent and the feelings are still very strong here. We're told on a regular basis not to go to places because it's where the black people are. It's not that it's a high crime area, just that the black people are there. I'm so ashamed.
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