When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I...
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When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man
When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man
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When I was a student trying to qualify
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for the jobs you people will let us have
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I suddenly realized
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it wasn't just good jobs that were white
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The only history we read
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was made by the white men
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written by the white men
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Televisions cars medicines
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all invented by the white men
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Even football
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Now in a world like that
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it's not hard to believe
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there's something inferior about being born black
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We grow most of our own food here
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for the patients and some of the staff
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The church
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Oh that was here long before us
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But I began to think this idea of inferiority
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was an even bigger problem for us
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than what the Afrikaners were doing to us
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A black man had to believe
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he had as much capacity to be a doctor
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a leader as a white man
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Movie Summary
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.
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Steve Biko
