My Favourite Archbishop Desmond Tutu Story

“We’ve forgotten how damaged we’ve been by oppression and injustice. People think that apartheid was just a political yoke, but it got into the psyches of both the oppressors and the oppressed. We’ve not yet found the remedy where we help people recover their sense of self-worth. When I went to Nigeria for the first time in the 1970s. I got on a plane in Lagos. Both pilots were black, something I’d never come across in South Africa. I grew inches in my excitement! We took off, but then we hit turbulence. The first thought that occurred to me was, “oh dear, there’s no white person in the cockpit! Will these black guys be able to get us through this?” The awfulness of racial oppression is so bad that it can make a child of God doubt that they’re a child of God. And you project your self-hatred on others who look like you. We need to recover our sense of self-worth.”

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