Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gitell points out, the most tragic consequence of the drug trade is the toll it takes on innocent victims like Tiffany Moore, killed in crossfire during a shootout between rival drug gangs. More generally, the violence which accompanies drug trafficking victimizes entire neighborhoods, particularly in the African-American community, as the constant danger of crime drives private businesses to the suburbs and further isolates minorities in joblessness and poverty...
...buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner cities, while ironically perpetuating the stereotype of all African-American men as potential muggers and murderers...
Like Cry Freedom, it follows the struggle of a white South African man who suddenly wakes to the injustice of apartheid. Also like Cry Freedom, the movie spends a disproportionate amount of time on the problems of whites instead of Blacks...
Bewildered by the deaths Sutherland who teaches Afrikaaner history to schoolboys, begins looking into the incidents. Soon convinced the two were murdered by the South African secret police, he seeks help from a liberal lawyer named Ian McKenzie played by Marlon Brando. (Yes Brando...
...ugly images of apartheid, the one that will not fade from the minds of horrified television viewers around the world is the recurrent scene of helmeted policemen lashing black protesters with menacing whips. Admitting that the image problem was a primary concern, the South African government announced last week that police would no longer use the 3-ft.-long hard rubber whips, known as sjamboks...