RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope | movie | 2009 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Exploring Robert Kennedy's 1966 visit to South Africa during the height of Apartheid, the film evokes the connections be | dG1fZ0JKMWdycTBfYUE

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00:00I come here because of my deep affection for a land settled by the Dutch, then taken over

00:11by the British and at last independent, a land which was once the importer of slaves

00:17and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage.

00:22I refer, of course, to the United States of America.

00:25For so many years, the Americans had been supporting apartheid.

00:31The type of pictures that were taken in the Americas is the same type of pictures the dogs that are used.

00:37Apartheid was so suffocating that this country became, like, more claustrophobic.

00:42I grew up in a society where apartheid was normal. I never questioned it.

00:46My mother the other day said to me, well, you know, I didn't know what was going on, my boy.

00:50And I said to her, well, you should have known, Mum. You really should have.

00:53It was in that context of darkness, of alienation from your own country, that Kennedy arrived in South Africa.

01:03I can remember that when he spoke, it really did change my life.

01:07It was as if somewhere you'd seen the light at the end of the tunnel.

01:12Each time a man stands up for an ideal or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

01:22Those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

01:29Available now on Video On Demand.

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01:45That's not the way you've seen it in the tunnel.

01:47If you're saying it was wrong, you need to know the fact that somebody is doing it.

01:49That's not fair about a theory of protection.

01:51It's a non-sector of a painting.

01:53That's what you're saying.

01:55That's why I'm seeing it here.

01:57I'm seeing it here.

01:59I'm seeing it in the tunnel.

02:01That's why I'm seeing it here.

02:03I'm seeing it here.