Athol Fugard

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When I think of how I could be able t relate to Master Harold and the boys by Athol

Fugard, very little seems to come to mind. In my life I have not personally experienced any of

the racist experiences that were exhibited in the play. When I was young my parents instilled

in me the idea of accepting people for their personal characteristics and not their physical ones.

With this way of thinking I was oblivious to racism for a good portion of my life. In my life

the only time I personally remember racism affecting me, even indirectly, was when my Cub

Scout den was looking around to see which Boy Scout troop we should join. My mother,

talking to the scout master told him that there were two white boys and two black boys in her

den. Upon hearing this, the scout master told my mother that he did not want any "monkeys" in

his troop and continued on to insult their intelligence

meeting with the person she was accusing and confront him there. In spite of how difficult it

From what I have learned in school about American history, racism in the nineteen

currently with which gladly accepted them as members.

the officials at the scout office about this incident she was told that she would have to come to a

and Sam were his only friends and that his idea of his own superiority was more important than

Currently in this country we won't even admit that racism is a problem. Our nations

shocked at the fact that the deterioration of their relationship waited until the last twenty or so

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