Matthew Blackburn (left) and a classmate draw self-portraits on their first day of school. Matthew attends the same school his mother attended as a child except that the school is now racially integrated.
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Matthew Blackburn lives with his parents and two brothers in a predominantly white suburb of Johannesburg. Matthew's mother, Trish, is an assistant accountant and his father, Chris, is a restauranteur currently between jobs. The Blackburn boys attend the same government school their mother attended as a child except that the school is now predominantly black rather than all-white. Because of the racial mix of the school, most of Matthew's friends are black. "Our kids are growing up in a totally different South Africa," says Chris Blackburn. "They're not conscious of race like we were growing up," he adds. The family employs a full-time black domestic servant, Eli, who helped raise the three boys from the time they were born.
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