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! first visit to South Africa
" ·as some )Car. overdue.
1
had expectcd. from repon
printcd about South Africa and
apurtlieid.
to find whites arrogantly
dominant and blacks cowcring in
fear.
But 1 found instead - on the sur–
facc - apparent racial peace. 1
found blacks holding their heads up
ju t like whitcs. 1 found both blacks
and \\'hites. for instance. in the ho–
tcl's large coO'cc shop in cqual
numbers. each going abou t their re–
spective jobs just as if thcy were all
the same race.
Th en. suddenly. thc day before
yc tcrday. 1 arrived back in Johan–
ne. burg from a visit to South-West
Africa and found in the evening
ncwspaper the full-pagc-wide head–
line, "SIX DIE I RIOTS." That
was Wednesday, Junc 16. The
mo rning paper
Of
Thur day, June
17. had a giant page-wide headline
of two words.
''Fiaming Night."
Un–
der it was a seven-column. full-color
picture of motor trucks in flame.
All had seemed to be at
P EACE
here- on the surface. South Africa
is trying the experiment of
TWO
raccs. black and white. and also a
third. called here ·•coloured" - a
mixture of 1ndian. mulatto. and
other races - each by law li ving in
its one area of the city or cou ntry.
and each of the threc forbidden by
law to live in any other than its own
arca.
Supposedly they are all equal , ye t
obv iously the whi tes domínate. Sup–
poscdly there is no discriminalion.
Supposedly all are friends. no one
race supposedly fecling superior.
and no other feeling inferi or.
Supposcdly, that is the case. And.
on the surface. tha t is thc way il
appcarcd when 1 arrivcd over threc
wccks ago. Here in my hotel, lhe
Carlton, blacks are we lcome the
same as whites. b'ut 1 ha ve sccn a l–
mos t no blacks as gucst:,. although
thc number of black and whi te em–
ployees appear lo be about equal.
1 havc no doubl lhal lhis arca–
scgrcgalion idea in rcs idcnces. yet
wilh all race apparent ly mixing in
employment. in
s hop~
and :,tores.
and in thc do\\'nlown city s treels
co uld be made lo work for per–
manent peace -
JF
it wcre not for
human na ture.
The
PLAIN TRUTH August 1976
Personal from...
1VISIT SOUTH AFRICA-WHERE
RACE RIOTS FLARED OUT
...MYANALYSIS
But one of the ingredients in
human nature is
prejudice.
which
crosscs lhe color line . ami other in–
gredients in human nature are jeal–
ousy and envy. compcti tion and
strife. rcsentment of authorit). be–
sides va nity. lust. and greed. And
these. sooner or later. spell
V JO –
LENCE!
Sti ll. such violen ce i ncarly al–
ways dcli bcra tely
organi:::ed
and de–
liberately stirred up.
Some few
year~
ago. a radica l
known as ' 'Danny the Red" ini–
tiatcd a virtual nation\\'ide strike in
France. starting from thc Uni ver ily
of París. He almost succccdcd in
ovcrthrowing the French government.
Days laler. Danny the Red was
hold ing a "teach-in" ror univers ity
sludcnls at the University of Lon–
don's Graduate School of Econom–
ics.
lt
was closed to th c prcss.
Ambassador student!. attcndcd and
reponed lo me. Those attending
wcre given a course in
HOW
lo bring
aboul a
RI OT
and ovcrthrow a gov–
crnmcnt.
Thc recipc is well known lo sub–
ve rsives and radicals. Fi rst. find
somc issuc in which a certa in class
of pcoplc feel they are unjust ly
trea ted - such as sludcnts. labor
unions. etc. Then gct to them in
groups. group lectures. cte.. an d fa n
the ftamcs of rcsenlmcnl, prejucli ce.
and l'eclings of inj us ti ce. Exaggcrale
Íl.
Make Ít an
EMOTIO:-JAL ISSUE.
Af–
ter many such meetings or lectures.
organi1.c bigger ones. orate to thcm
,·ehement ly. and whip up their emo–
ti ons of
re~entmenl
and hat e to
wh ite-h ol hcat- turn thcrn
AGA INST
lhc "instigator' ' or class ca u:, in g lhe
injusti ce. Then. organizc a definite
"MARC' H OF PROTEST."
Try to turn
th c march into a riot. Try to make
lhc riot spread .
In the
WO RLD TOMORROW.
which
is comi ng
sooN.
two things will
bring aboul
RAC IAL PEACE:
Üne.
hu ma n na lure will be changed.
Two. lhe scgrega tion-inlcgration is–
suc will be settled in a way lo bring
PEAC'L.
And there will be
NO IJIS–
CR I ~I!i'A
110:-J.
no onc racc over any
oiher. Opportunity for succcss an d
wclfarc will be
EQUAL.
Thcn humans will lcarn. as lhc
apost le Paul sa id
to
thc Athcnian
''lhinkcrs" on Mars' Hill. tha t God
lhc Crcator "ha th made of
one hlood
all nations or mcn." And not of
"\\hite" blood. or somc other col–
orcd blood. We all ha\e onc ance:,–
tor. Adam. and ulti matel)
\\'C
hall
be
ONE FAMitY,
not in color. bu t in
sp irit and in
LOVE. D