PDP2- The Question of South Africa

Author Bio- Desmond Tutu was elected the first black Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986. He wanted racial justice in South Africa. He won a noble peace prize for his leadership in seeking racial justice. He gave this speech to attack the racial policies.

Data/Context- This speech relates to the apartheid we learned about in class. The Apartheid separated people, killed them, and kidnapped people. South Africa's racial policy

Summary- This speech spoken by Desmond Tutu was spoken by a man that loved Africa. He wrote this speech to attack South Africa's racial policies. He explains how South Africas's society is deeply polarized. He talks about how police have been taking people, killing them, and separating them racially.  Students are boycotting because they are out of school. 80 of them already died. The government of South Africa is under reform. Their constitution now is no way a capable way of running a country. At the end of the speech he says he wants freedom for all races in South America but in the most peaceful way.

Key question- Help us, that this freedom comes for all of us in South Africa, black and white, but that comes with the least possible violence, that it comes peacefully, that it comes too.