Crossroads Of Oppression's End: Liberty Or Greater Tyranny-Part Four South Africa Session One (Harsha Sankar Essay)

 

Crossroads Of Oppression's End: Liberty Or Greater Tyranny-Part Four South Africa Session One

Sadly, most Black Americans do not know much about their own history, much less about the history of POCs in other nations. Of course their other ethnic counterparts do not know much about this history as well.

In 1910, South Africa became a nation. It's population was nearly 22% White(originating from UK and Holland) and 70% Black.

A few years later, the White government passed a law keeping Blacks in specific homelands, which was 7% of the land. This is what the Americans did to the American Indians as they placed these natives in reservations.

In 1948, the White government inaugurated Apartheid as its official law of the land.In 1950, when apartheid legislation officially restricted black peoples to approximately 13 percent of the land. This meant 4 ethnic groups(White, Black, Coloured(mixed race), and Asian Indian) had specific areas they had to stay in. In 1994, Apartheid officially ended.

Have matters improved for South Africans in the last 27 years. Stay tune to my next post for the surprising answers.