Biography Day Six

• Father against it completely
  
• Storm in winter the brazier almost burnt down house; almost killed family w/poison gas
  
• Made fun of the "shit-men" so they caught him and made him stand and stomp in a waste
• basket. After he promised himself he would never again make fun of anyone
  
• went to tribal lands to see witchdoctor with dad
  
• met the doctor hates the tribal reserve
  
• baby born 3rd sister named Merriam
  
• Christmas not celebrated again
  
• money was stretched even further
  
• Alexandra was declared a black spot; they decided not to tear it all down so the family
• moved to a location that wasn't going to torn down
  
• moved to 13Th avenue which had very unsanitary conditions
  

Biography Day Seven

• school's influence stopped Mark going hanging with a gang
• began reading books his granny brought him
• He began to hear about successful black people such as Martin Luther King
• After hearing Muhammad Ali beat a whit man in boxing Mark wanted to become a boxer as well
• he went to the rink and got beat
• quit dream of becoming a boxer

Biogaphy Day Eight

• Arthur Ashe influenced him to play tennis
• tennis became his passion
• he began to meet white people and learn that they weren't all bad people
• broke myth's about white people
• obtained a job at a tennis ranch
• became good friend of Wilfred the tennis proprietor
• Wilfred German who was stunned at what happened in the ghetto
  

Biography Day Nine

• Mark was able to act as a spokesmen for black people
• seen as a traitor to other black people
• because of playing tennis with WHITE people Mark would receive death threats
• nearly killed with an encounter with old friends
• because of his associations with white people

Biography Day Ten

• used white people to get out of South Africa
• Some may see it as him leaving his family behind
• But he did act as a spokesmen for Africans
• he did more to help the blacks in South Africa by leaving then he ever could have by staying there