Their ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church preach a brand of Christianity that can now only be found in the USA among white supremacist fringe groups. Their resentment of English encroachment and victory in the Boer War runs deep. The young man who grew up to be Stephen Dorff because he's orphaned as a child has to go to a school for Afrikaans children. What I liked about The Power of One is that it goes into the history of the Union of South Africa as seen not from a historian, but from the point of view of a growing boy who was of English parentage. In our own country Frederick Douglass knew that well and he counted his education as a first step for freedom for his people. It was a crime back in the day to teach a black slave to read. The southerners in the slave holding part of the USA knew that well. Literacy is always the key to freedom and accessibility to read everything is the second step. Declaration of Independence about that all men are created equal, he knew he'd started something. When Stephen Dorff's character of PK sees the African child reading from the U.S.
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