Word: apartheid
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...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...
...solitary figure silhouetted against a reddish-orange dawn marks the beginning of Tug Yourgrau's musical, "The Song of Jacob Zulu." The play, which opened on Broadway in 1993, is an honest attempt to recount the tragedies of a South Africa under the baleful spell of apartheid. Inspired by the murder trial of Jacob Zulu in 1985, the play recounts the violence and pressures of a society fractured by racism...
...Yourgrau, South African born playwright and director, began to write the play after President Nelson Mandela established the Truth Commission to ensure that crimes committed during the apartheid era were to be forgiven but not forgotten. Jacob Zulu was written in this same belief. "The search for truth is balanced with the needs of the present to go forward," says Yourgrau. "Healing begins with true talk...
...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...