In Our Own Backyard

'I was eating lunch in the quad today, and this Maori woman was up on a stage talking about how discrimination against black South Africans should make us look at ourselves, at New Zealand's discrimination against Maori. Some young guys were arguing with her and one threw a banana skin at her as she stepped down from the microphone. It landed on the side of her head and slid down her cheek onto her shoulder. She just left it there and stepped back up to the microphone. Look in your own backyard, she said. It's not only South Africa that has to change. Then she stepped down, flicked the banana skin off her shoulder, and walked away.'