Cry Freedom Page #4

17 he was taken into a mission school.

You know,...

...most of these guys, they're living

in a bed out there on their own.

No work permit,

no residence permit.

A man and wife who can't find

work in the same white town,

are not allowed to live together

in the same black township.

You split up black families,...

...so that for thousands

of husbands and wives,

if they see each other

once a year, they're lucky.

You keep saying "you". You're talking

about the Afrikaner government.

Don't blame all the

whites for apartheid.

How many live-in maids

do you have, Mr. Woods?

- One, but she doesn't...

- Don't pick on him.

He's here to have a good time.

Come on, drink up. Cheers.

Look, I'm not defending what's been done,

but he's the one who's against liberals.

We're trying to move

towards integration.

Of course. You want to give

us a slightly better education,

so that we can get

slightly better jobs.

- At first maybe, but...

- I won't be forced into your society.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you

can beat me, or jail me, or even kill me,...

...but I am not going to be

what you want me to be.

The best you want for us is to

be allowed to sit at your table,...

using your silver and your china,

and if we can learn to use it like you do,

then you will

kindly let us stay.

We want to wipe the

whole table clean.

It's an African table,

and we will sit at it in our own right.

You must remember,

before you arrived we

had our own culture.

We had many villages, small.

You know our language,

Mr. Woods.

The word we use for nephew

is "my brother's son".

Tenjy calls my wife,

not aunt,

but "mother's sister".

We've no separate words

for members of the family.

All begin with

"brother" and "sister".

We took care of each other.

We got a lot of things right,

which your society never solved.

You did have tribal wars

in this land of yours.

Well, what do you call

World War I and World War II?

You use words very cleverly, but there's

something about it that scares me.

Of course there is, because in your

world anything white is normal.

The way the world

is supposed to be.

And your real genius,

is that for years you've managed

to convince most of us of that too.

Could you ask Tony to come in?

Ken, this is Tenjy Mtinsto

and Mapetla Mohapi.

They're from King William's Town.

- Yes, sir?

- Could you come in?

I'm glad to say that yesterday the board

approved their appointments to the staff.

Brief them on our copy rules.

- Can you take them upstairs to see Bob?

- Will you come this way?

Tell him to give them their

assignments for tomorrow.

I want you to teach them

how to use our cameras.

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