Sarafina
Imagine people who have done nothing wrong, get killed just because of their race. This is what happened in South Africa, between black South Africans and white South Africans and is delineated in the film, Sarafina. In this movie, a school in a black-dominated town called Soweto, tried to revolt against the stronger armies of the whites in the town, because of the racism or as they call it in South Africa, apartheid. In the middle of this whole situation was the principal of the school. He was a black South African, living in Soweto and had to decide if he would follow the regulations the white government and its armies had on the school or lead the students in a rebellion against the white government and its armies. He decided supervene with the white government for many reasons. Imagine if you had to make this decision. If I were the principal of this school, I would have followed the regulations by the white government.. One reason that I would follow the regulations of the government is because the students were unorganized. The students had little support and leadership. When they got angry they grouped together and they tried to defeat the white armies in Soweto, but the students were vi
rtually defenseless against the white armies. The only weapons they would have fire and rocks. The fire was used to burn buildings and the rocks were to throw at the white soldiers. The white armies would just shoot them with their weapons and all the students would try to run. Students would get shot and die and that caused more tragedy to the situation. There are opposing arguments against the principal and my opinion. One argument established that people should follow their heart and what is morally right. I disagree because of the fact that if you do not have the tools to fight a battle, you will fail and cause more misfortune. Another argument is that the principal should have led the students in a non-violent way against the government. I think this would cause more tragedy, because the white government has been portrayed as people who kill at will in the movie and if a group tried to cause corruption in their government, whether violent or non-violent, they would eradicate them. This happened to Nelson Mandela in the early sixties. He tried in a passive way to lead the black South Africans against the white government. He did not cause any harm to white people, but was put in jail for thirty years.
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Approximate Word count = 822
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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