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ツツ大司教の訃報を聞いて、書いた投稿です。彼の演説を聞くまで、私は「アパルトヘイト」は遠い他人事にしようとしてました。しかし、演説によって、積極的な行動をとっていなかった自分が恥ずかしくなりました。

I attended the rally at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA Campus in 1985. Until I heard his speech, I had only a vague idea of what it meant to be a black in the apartheid South Africa. I knew that we, the Japanese, were treated as honorary whites there in spite of our skin color because both countries profited greatly from the economic relationship.

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