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“There is not a single reason to put that frown
It is not your fault that these people are brown”
Said an old priest, with a gown full of blood considered ‘vile’
I am not trying to cook up a racial story, no.
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how sad the past and how great the future will only if we look beyond the colour.nice I tell you,
The quiet tone and understatement in this poem makes it SCREAM out loud! Fabulous.
The hurt and damage that Apartheid did goes far deeper than anyone who didn't experience it will ever know. However your beautiful words tell us some of it...
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7/27/2025 5:22:16 PM # 1.0.0
Africaans..Browns..Italians..One of my best friends is the new professor of Italian Literature in Johannesbourg, at University, you can contact him at francoarato@libero.it. Franco Arato Ph.D. is most serious scientist I know, in Italy he found only taxes, politics and mafia. In a certain sense, he too suffered from apartheid. Very good poem, honest, compliments to Mr Sithole, English legacy is in his hands.