She was the only medical practitioner that their poor neighbors, white and black, were likely to see.
But she knows that some white neighbors are just not comfortable with racial and ethnic minorities.
But she did notice how many white neighbors stopped her to explain that their opposition to public housing was not based on race.
One white neighbor questioned the Potgieters' decision to bring the woman to church.
It is now the white neighbors who see themselves as trying to prevent the Indians from despoiling the land.
In an interview years ago, he remembered how his grandfather, a farmer, talked to a white neighbor.
And many blacks say they now feel a bit more uneasy around some of their white neighbors.
When he was younger, he used to be friends and play with his white neighbors.
What the black farmers did not expect was the support they have received from their more prosperous and experienced white neighbors.
During the past hour, some twenty white neighbors had arrived.