Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Injustice
Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa chaired the TRC. In this video clip from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, Tutu talks about the huge economic gap between white and black South Africa, even though the apartheid government had fallen 4 years earlier.
ARCHBISHOP TUTU: Aren't they amazed that four years down the line black people live in shanty towns--many, many, many, but a very, very few white people of any who live in shacks. These black people wake up in the morning in these depressed conditions, no running water, no street lighting, no nothing. They wake up, they get on whatever means of transport they have, they go off to some of the most salubrious, the most affluent parts of South-Africa, which are the former white enclaves. They work in a beautiful house. They clean, they cook, they wash, and everyday, from all of the splendor they go back into the squalor.
I am amazed and I would say to our white compatriots: "Don’t you want to wake up and realize that it is in fact in your interest that transformation happens?"
