Jonathan Logan
Psych 100
Prof. Hill
6 May. 2014
Nelson Mandela I was really excited when I heard there was going to be a talk about Nelson Mandela and Amy Bhiel story because I remember during my freshman year at Whittier I attended the same talk but I forgot some of the things that I learned the first time. This talk was interesting because it provided a different look into the complicated situations that occurred during Nelson Mandela’s leadership in South Africa. However, we learned about Amy Bhiel who was an idealistic Stanford graduate and an antiapartheid activist who was in support of the black Africans during the apartheid era in South Africa. Then one day in South Africa, Amy was driving some of her young black colleagues back home when her car was attacked and she was stabbed. However, this event was ironic because the men that killed her thought that she was against them but in fact she was in complete support of the antiapartheid movement. We learned that the apartheid movement was caused by extreme tensions between the white Africans and Black Africans in South Africa but Nelson Mandela emerged as a revolutionary leader to break the apartheid movement. Through his ways of leading and his projection of tolerance, Nelson Mandela helped South Africa to eventually come together in favor of breaking the apartheid. Also, the death of Amy Bhiel allowed for a foundation to be created in honor of her sacrifice. Overall, I am glad that I attended this talk because it refreshed my memory on things I knew while learning new