The fiery speech by Native Leader George Erasmus

In the speech by Native Leader George Erasmus, delivered on February 3^rd, 2010, I chose the line where he said, “Why can we not deal HERE, with the problems that we criticize South Africans about? Why can we not have a situation here, where Native people have enough land and enough control over their lives, and they can have some dignity?” This talks about how people don’t pay attention to the Native people’s problems but pay more attention to others. Also it’s saying how most of the Native people don’t have much land or any control over their lives. I think that he means that Natives are more put to the side and “not as important” than others and their needs. I selected this line because it talked about the Native people not having land, control over their lives, and even dignity, like most others have. So to me this was important because even with it being just one line, it gives enough information to be able to understand the way Native people are treated.