The student protests in the USA, and how some people are responding to them, brought back a memory.
I was a teenager in South Africa in the 80s and a white kid in an all white school. At a certain point, as apartheid was dismantled, it became clear to everyone that schools were going to be racially integrated, it was inevitable.
I and a few of my friends campaigned for our school to become a "sister school" with a local black school. We thought that would help with the transition. Maybe students from our school could visit theirs and vice versa, or we could play soccer together etc.
The plan failed, not because of the headmaster (who met with us) or the teachers or parents.
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