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PREZI PRESENTATION – ROOTS AND FRUITS OF RACISM

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1 – While watching the trailer of the film “Malcolm X” note down four meanings of the words -

BLACK and WHITE.

BLACK: WHITE:

_________________ _______________

_________________ _______________

_________________ _______________

_________________ _______________

2- What conclusions can you draw?

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FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE WORDS IN THE BOX

Inferior gaps “purity” menial jobs segregation racial black education

Education under Apartheid

The Bantu Education Act

Main article:  Bantu Education Act …

The Bantu Education Act (No. 47) of 1953 widened the ____(1)________ in educational

opportunities for different _____(2)________groups. Two of the architects of Bantu education, Dr.
W.M. Eiselen and Dr. Hendrik F. Verwoerd, had studied in Germany and had adopted many
elements of National Socialist (Nazi) philosophy. The concept of racial _____(3)______in particular,
provided a rationalisation for keeping _______(4)______inferior. Verwoerd, then minister of native
affairs, said black Africans "should be educated for their opportunities in life," and that there was
no place for them "above the level of certain forms of labour." ……

Official attitudes toward African education were paternalistic, based on trusteeship and

_____(5)_______. Black education was not supposed to drain government resources away from
white education. The number of schools for blacks increased during the 1960s, but their
curriculum was designed to prepare children for _____(6)________. Per-capita government
spending on black education slipped to one-tenth of spending on whites in the 1970s. Black
schools had _____(7)_______ facilities, teachers, and textbooks.
C- Listen to the song “ They don’t care about us”, by Michael Jackson, and fill in the
blanks with the words missing.

Skin head, dead head me?

Everybody gone bad Your proclamation promised me free
Situation, aggravation _________, now
Everybody allegation I’m tired of bein’ the victim of _________
In the suite, on the news They’re throwing me in a class with a bad
Everybody dog food name
Bang bang, _____________ I can’t believe this is the land from which I
Everybody's gone mad came
You know I really do hate to say it
All I wanna say is that The ____________don’t wanna see
They don't really care about us But if ____________ was livin’
All I wanna say is that He wouldn’t let this be, no, no
They don't really care about us
Skin head, dead head
___________me, _________me Everybody gone bad
You can never break me Situation, speculation
Will me, thrill me Everybody litigation
You can never __________ me Beat me, bash me
Jew me, sue me You can never trash me
Everybody do me Hit me, kick me
Kick me, kike me You can never get me
Don't you black or white me
All I wanna say is that
All I wanna say is that They don’t really care about us
They don't really care about us All I wanna say is that
All I wanna say is that They don’t really care about us
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life Some things in life they just don’t wanna
I have a wife and two children who love see
me But if ____________ was livin’
I am the _________ of police He wouldn’t let this be, no, no
____________, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of _________ Skin head, dead head
You're rapin' me off my pride Everybody gone bad
Oh, for God's sake Situation, _____________
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy... Everybody allegation
Set me free In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Skin head, dead head Kick me, kike me
Everybody gone bad Don’t you wrong or right me
Trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation All I wanna say is that
In the suite, on the news They don’t really care about us
Everybody dog food All I wanna say is that
Black male, black mail They don’t really care about us
Throw your brother in _________
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us They don’t really care about
All I wanna say is that All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us they don’t really care about
All I wanna say is that
Tell me what has become of my They don’t really care about us
__________
Am I _____________because you ignore
 D- The lyrics and the video of the song “They don’t care about us” by Michael Jackson
show some of the “fruits” of racism. Make a list of all the “fruits” presented there.
_______________________ _________________________
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_______________________ _________________________
_______________________ _________________________

E- Match the words in the box with the corresponding definition.

1. discrimination 2. slavery 3.prejudice 4.scapegoating 5. institutional

6. racism 7. apartheid 8. genocide 9. stereotyping
xenophobia

1. The system of owning people and forcing them to work for free. _______________________

2. A  strong fear and dislike of people from other countries and cultures. _________________

3. A legal way of  discriminating against people  who belong to a different race. _________

4. The murder of large numbers of people belonging to a particular race or ethnic

group. __________________________

5. Unfair treatment of someone on the grounds of race, sex, age, etc. ____________________

6. To believe that someone has a particular character only because this is what many
people  believe someone of their particular class, nationality, etc. must be like, and not
because you know anything about their personality. ____________________________________

7. An unreasonable opinion or feeling, specially the feeling of not liking a particular

group of people. ___________________

8. To blame someone for something that is not his fault, specially because someone
doesn’t want to be blamed for that. ___________________________

9. The political system that existed in South Africa in the past, in which only white
people had political rights and power. _________________________

F- Write a paragraph (at least five lines) about the consequences of racism which
shock you the most. Explain why.
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