A grade 8 pupil gave an incredibly inspiring speech about race and how to overcome the deeply negative stereotypes linked to race in South Africa
A grade 8 girl gave a moving speech about race and the ridiculous stereotypes linked to race classifications. Her speech is moving people can’t get enough of her powerful words.
In her speech, she rejects the use of race as a way to classify humans and feels that skin colour is merely that, a colour. While discussions like this often spark heavy debate, this well-thought-out speech has created a conversation and people feel strongly that the teen is on the right track with her thought-provoking speech.
She says,
“Human skin comes in a spectrum wonderful of colours. The person we call white is more beige or peach. Or the person we call black is burnt umber, the colour artists use, or coffee coloured, or maybe even the colour of very milky tea. How is it right to label a person based on their skin colour when the terms we use are so simplistic?”
She then dropped a statement so powerful, every hair on our body stood on end. The thought is so profound!
“When we assign people to a group based on their skin colour, we lose information about who they are as an individual”
She closes he speech by quoting Nelson Mandela,
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
You can watch her speech below.
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