16th Man Reflection

1. If the black people in South Africa had resisted all of the demands of the white people, would the whites have had any power at all if they could not bend the blacks to their will?
2. The activity that I have chosen is the Chess Club. Chess, in some ways, is itself a sport, for it is a competition for the mind. When people play one another, all thoughts of anger and prejudice could be set aside. The players only care about the game, and what will happen to their pieces. When it comes to the Chess teams, the players would have to unite and support one another in order to win their games. Eventually, any bigotry between players would fade away for they would have bonded with one another with the support that they gave one another. Those memories would contain friendly experiences for these people, and the emotions that would be felt would be ones of admiration rather than hate. A new view of one another would be presented in the minds of the Chess players, and that is how the game could unite people like little else can (Inspired by Nelson Mandela).
3. OPTIONAL: The pre-apartheid flag seems to be derived from white European nations. It has the three stripes like the flag of France, even though there is an orange stripe. In the center of the flag is the a small version of the Union Jack, and a little farther to the right from that was a miniature flag of France. It clearly shows that South Africa was dominated by white Europeans. (http://www.thuto.org/ubh/images/za-1928flag.gif). The post Apartheid flag is all different colors, and one of those colors was black. This shows that the country is now united in these races, for all of these colors have combined to create one nation. (http://www.africa.com/images/maps/south_africa-lgflag.jpg).
Part II. On the pre-apartheid flag, the Europeans' emotions took over when they used their biases to create the flag. They wanted it to resemble their European home, and they did not want to involve the blacks in this decision. However, when blacks and whites managed to unite as one nation, the people reasoned that their flag should resemble as much. As a result, it seems that all different types of colors were put on the flag in order to show off this new state of unity.