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This 4 page paper examines some of the ramifications of apartheid on its victims, and what problems now face the South African government because of its previous policies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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few years ago. This paper examines some of the ramifications of apartheid on its victims, and what problems now face the South African government because of its previous policies. Discussion
To anyone who has followed the struggle of American blacks to obtain equal rights under the law, the idea that slavery is a devastating practice that damages its victims psychologically
is not new. Many studies have shown that enslaving a people is a sure way to ruin them for generations to come. This is clear in the United States and
its equally clear in South Africa. In their articles, OToole and Mayer both reveal the way in which apartheid has been used as a means of systematically degrading non-whites in
South Africa. OToole explains that over the years, the South African government has passed numerous laws that are designed to elevate the status of the white man while lowering that
of the black. Its difficult to understand the system; while in the Southern U.S. the Jim Crow laws made discrimination legal, they began to disappear in the mid-20th century. Racism
has not, of course-the United States still struggles with it to a tremendous degree, but at least in law, if not in fact, blacks are making progress toward equality with
whites. Thats why its so disturbing to read that the South African government, as recently as 1968, was passing laws to perpetuate and legalize discrimination. Everything in South African society
was measured by the color of a persons skin: the darker he was, the more circumscribed his life (OToole, 1973). White got paid twice as much for the same jobs,
got better jobs, better education, better health care, had access to better housing and nicer shops; absolutely everything in the country was determined by the color of ones skin. This
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