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Today year 6 had video conference with Chris Lubbe,he spoke to us about Black History month and told us about his life changing experience in South Africa.
When he was 8 years old he experienced the most tragic time of his whole entire life. Peacefully Chris and his mother were sitting on a bench which had 'white only' on it. So the White police men threw Chris's mother onto the floor. Her head started to bleed, but he did not understand what was going on then as he was only 8 years of age. A group of black women came over to him they were infuriated by this news, they checked her pulse, her breathing and said " she is alive". All of a sudden he stopped crying.
During this time black people we're seen as wrong and weren't treated the same as white people.
When Black people went to prison they were tortured seriously and they had to sleep on the floor when white people slept on beds.Black people had to stand in freezing cold water and get tortured for 7 days. They were hand cuffed and could not move, white people as prisoners wore long trousers, and black people wore short trousers.
Back then there was four different colour groups black, Asian, white, and coloured. On your birth certificate it stated what colour group you are. If they couldn't tell they would do certain tests on you such as measuring the size of your lips, nose, and feel the shape of the back of your head. Also they would do a pencil test. This involved putting it in your hair and if it stays there that means your classified black and if it falls out it means you're classified white or coloured.
In Chris Lubbe's home town they had no electricity, no water source, terrible schools, severe learning difficulties. Did you know black people weren't provided books. Chris had to walk to the dump while people looked for clothes, he looked for books, he was desperate for a book.White and black people were separated in everything they even had separate coaches.
Black people would usually do silent protests, and peaceful protests, the police would take it too far and start to kill, shoot people and take them to prison to be tortured. Chris said that many of his friends and family got killed, this was exceptionally emotional for us to hear about. Although it was emotional I think it was the right thing to do, to tell us to prevent rasism in the future.
'Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'.
'Once you have squeezed out the toothpaste you can't you can't put it back in'.
'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world' - Nelson Mandela
By Amrit, Sophieya, and Naren 6H
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