It was December 18, 2002 at Peninsula Technician, journalism class professor Steven Adams stepped in front of an student of 300 people at the sport hall to deliver a last speech about “Racism in Tertiary Institutions” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Adams told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. . He told students to be racism if they want because it was created by their parents, he sees no reason to why they can do it, if they forefather saw it as the right thing to do.
On the stage that day, Adams was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged. He was out context and he was not prepared he humble apologise to the audience who were there to listen to him as he was known as one of the best lecture in the institution that time.
Adams’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities.
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