No Future Without Forgiveness By Desmond Tutu

1 Liu In the book, No Future Without Forgiveness, it introduces that South Africa was one of a land that experienced the most profound apartheid and racial oppression. It stacked hundreds of years of oppression, hatred and killings between the blacks and whites. Fortunately, there are some great people helping South Africa out of the woods. The author of this book, Desmond Tutu, perfectly reconciled the conflict and contradiction in South Africa. Therefore, after reading this book, what I want to appeal is that people should have equal rights. Meanwhile, in this paper?s following analysis, I will discuss as the blacks, what unequal and cruel

When the world develops to date, a country cannot be seen as individual. If a country cannot accept the concept of multiracial society and do not want to unite other countries or nations, it will not develop rapidly and effectively. Nowadays, political integration and economic globalization is the trend. For example, European Communities established in 1967 and became European Union in 1991. There also have a lot of global economic organizations, such as World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. Apparently, there still has a large amount of blacks do not get the equal rights. However, the reason why people do not want to give them the same rights is ridiculous. Different color skin, different values, or different religious believes. Even some people just according to themselves imagination or hear the rumor from others. Only a few of people would like to know and experience the blacks? life and hear their opinion about the society. In fact, when the society put down the prejudices and stereotype, all the people are conducive to the society. It will not have differences because of different nations or color skin. At the same time, when people have the equal rights, they will have a stronger responsibility to uphold their society and promote the society?s development. Certainly, when people enjoy the equal rights, the blacks may try to forgive the tough period. ?We are bound up in a delicate network of interdependence because, as we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons??Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.? (pg. 35) Nevertheless, although the blacks could forgive the cruel history, they should not forget