Why would we have sung the anthem of a country that wouldn’t let us be a part of it? That only postponed our genocide so we could slave to make it rich? We wanted to sing both anthems at assemblies. That would have been fair. We wanted the white school to respect our culture and our history, just like we were being asked to respect theirs. But the principal kept saying there’s only one country. There’s only one anthem. So some of us sang our anthem at
