I just watched the “Color of Friendship.” It was fantastic.
It was about a student exchange program exchange of a white girl from South Africa to a black family in the US.
Before the exchange took place the white girl had this black woman who took care of her and the house. They were talking about this bird. The bird naturally lived in a community of others, different colored birds, however the same species. They lived in harmony together.
It started with the two families getting ready to make the exchange. The girl from South Africa was the daughter of a cop. The girl in America was the daughter of a lawyer. The exchange took place and the girl from South Africa came to stay in the US with the family. The American family was black.
When the American family got their new exchange daughter, conflicts arose, and the exchanged daughter locked herself in the room that was provided for her. She even called her family and was about to ask to be brought home, but did not because her father said before she left that he was expecting her to come back within a week. She was not gone to give him the pleasure of being right so she stayed.
Then when she went to school with the daughter she was sent to the line to get her new schedule. When she was on her way there, a boy bumped into her and she dropped her books and all she was carrying. So her sister came and defended her, and relieved the tension.
Next was when the embassy guards came and almost deported her because a black person was just beat up by some cops in South Africa. She was almost deported if not for her American father coming in and saying to asking them if they were sure they wanted to do this and increase the tension in South Africa as well as here. Of course they did not want to increase the tension so they let the daughter come back home.
That was the end of her stay in America. She had a good time. The first thing she did when she got home was to let her pet bird free, because she knew what an important gift freedom was.
