Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that my experience is atypical of American Catholics. After all, Catholic social teaching shares much of the Democratic party's platform: opposition to the death penalty, runaway defense spending, apartheid in South Africa and military support for right-wing regimes in Latin America; support for federal and state welfare, prenatal care, gun control and educational spending. Despite the stereotype of conservative rank-and-file Catholics, the American Church's leadership, the American Council of Catholic Bishops, has taken high-profile stands against the arms race, homelessness and laissez-faire economics...
...apartheid government wants to be a player and referee at the same time," Hlongwa said...
...South Africa and the U.S., I think that racism will always exist. For one reason or another, there will always be people who are driven by fear, who deny the humanity of others. In South Africa, the problem is not so much the white people as it is apartheid. Apartheid has codified racism as a means to preserve its own power...
...hearts. White people's attitudes toward blacks have changed very little since the days of lynchings. Without that change, laws are relatively impotent. In many towns, there is a black world and a white world. I told my friends that I did not escape from the bondage of apartheid to end up segregated in America...
...resembled the world I had left, the townships of South Africa -- the poor buildings, the bad roads, the hopelessness, the rage, the frustration on the faces of the black boys and girls I met. These were the same emotions I felt when I was fighting for my life under apartheid. Everyone in this country is an accomplice to what is happening in the black ghettos of America...