Arrival

I was very excited when I found out my French team and I were going to the world cup this year. Although after looking in to it I saw that South Africa has had its share of struggles. In the late 1940’s new legislation classified inhabitants into racial groups. Black, white, coloured, and Indian. Basically what was, and still is happening, is called an apartheid. That means that white leaders were killing off other types of people. Such as the groups I mentioned earlier. This especially worries me because it makes me feel not as safe as I would like to fell, also it makes me feel not welcome in the great country of South Africa. Certain areas of South Africa still practice these things, and that makes me sort of nervous for my team, and for myself. Because these tragedies have still been going on, I think it might be possible that I could experience a lot of racial comments from fellow soccer players while competing, but also I might experience even a little bit of racial injustice off of the soccer field. I hate that things have come to this, especially because of the passion I have for the game, and I wish that the players from the FIFA world cup this year could go to South Africa with no fear of anything happening to them. Unfortunately this will probably not be the case. I think that a lot of black people participating in the cup will be discriminated against.