Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be incensed with my portrayal of Dixie, and looked forward to their responses and criticism. I was disappointed by the weakness of their counter-arguments, but then again, it's pretty challenging to defend hundreds of years of inhuman slavery and several generations of equally abhorrent Jim Crow apartheid...
...press conference, Carolus discussed her experiences as a black South African fighting against apartheid. In the speech later in the afternoon, she related that experience to the struggle of women worldwide for a voice in government...
...disingenuous of Jeffrey W. Vanke (Letter: "Kilson Must Tell Us When It Is Time for Forgiveness," Feb. 21, 1996) to make the matter of the atonement White America must make for Slavery--and the Grand Apartheid which followed and lasted until 1965--a matter merely of white individuals apologizing to black individuals. It's readily apparent that Vanke needs to pretend that the dominion of the Confederacy ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox and was not soon thereafter re-constructed via a voluminous number of legislative and extra-legal acts, including the Plessy decision, of the White South...
...much of the twentieth century, Southern whites wasted much of their energy on constructing and enforcing a system of apartheid. While black Southerners were creatively and subversively turning their misery into enduring American art forms such as the blues and jazz, most Southern whites were so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...
...musical does succeed--by the end of the play, the audience fully understands this black hole of apartheid. We are shown countless examples of the dilemmas imposed by unjust laws. And it is evident that the actors deeply empathize with their characters; who could not help but be impassioned by the roles of a misguided and angry black youth, a fervent, humane lawyer or a sadistic foul-mouthed...