“Dear Father — Our Black People here have been quiet lately. I still think they’re doing -wrong by burning down their own schools and townships. Why not do it in the white areas?
“There are so many why’s about our black people, will the
S.A. government be able to answer it?
“1. Why is there apartheid in most churches except the Catholic church?
“2. Why does the black man not have the same education as the white?
“3. Why does the black man have to do a job and the white gets the credit for it?
“4. Why can’t the black man occupy the same position as the white?
“5. Why must the black man sit upstairs in a bus, when the white sits downstairs?
“6. Why in the first place did they bribe the black man and steal his land? South Africa belongs to the black people.
“7. Why is there apartheid in hospitals?
“8. Why, if there’s been a road accident, can’t the black man help the white?
“9. Why, if I take Michael to hospital do they first help the white and let me wait for hours?
“10. Why can’t the Black people work in Cape Town? — They must produce a pass.
“11. There are so many why’s who can answer it?
“I have two African guys working for me, and I love them. They’re well educated, decent and religious. I took Michael to work one Saturday. He played with them, walked about the factory with them and even ate with them — the white was astonished. — Do you know what the black man then said to the white? He said, ‘Sir, this child is just like his mother, his heart is open’. Then I thought to myself: Who’s child on this earth will play with a black man and eat with him.