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Promised as the land of opportunity, America has long heralded itself as the world's beacon of democracy, freedom and progress. But many Black Africans and African Americans alike see the United States in a different light, saying the country's racist past is still very much a part of its present and that the recentin police custody is a global tipping point for systemic racism.
A woman bars the way as a group of African Americans were about to enter the lunch counter of a department store in Memphis to protest the segregation policy of the establishment, June 9, 1961. A large gathering of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement attend a rally in Union Square on Nov. 17, 2011, in New York, attempting to shut down Wall Street by blocking roads and tying up traffic in Lower Manhattan.For instance, Black adults make up just 12% of the U.S.
A South African police officer charges after a United Democratic Front demonstrator with a sjambok whip during a demonstration in Johannesburg, circa 1985. People swim and sunbathe near a notice board with the rules under which blacks were barred from swimming at the "Whites Only" section at a beach in Durban, South Africa, Jan. 5, 1987.
"Black South Africans and Americans are bound together in a long history of racial segregation, and it has not ended" Modiri said."The struggle against white supremacy is a transnational one."The year was 1963 and Bongani Sibeko's father, David Sibeko, was a rising member of the Pan Africanist Congress, a Black South African political movement that had broken away from the African National Congress.
South African police beat black women with clubs after anti-apartheid protesters raided and set a beer hall on fire in Durban, South Africa in 1959.The family was smuggled out of the country via a train from Johannesburg. When they eventually arrived at a refugee camp in Botswana, a bomb allegedly planted by South Africa’s apartheid regime tore through the offices. So they had to stay on the move.From there, they traveled to Zambia and then Tanzania.
Then leave. Africa is still right where your ancestors left it. In fact in all likelihood they still control their country. In fact maybe some of your ancestors relatives are in power themselves. There ya go, look them up and you'll be styling and profiling like U at the New Pike
Answer me this, is there Black racism towards White's? 🤔 Let's fix that while we're at it.
how is it white people's fault? it should not have all of these people yelling at them but the people WHO did it like many years ago in the 19th century should be yelled at and it just worked like that people acted like that
We aren't a democracy
Imagine if we all just saw ourselves as American
American was started with the greatest ideals of any government in history. It hasn't always lived up to them. But as a country we have moved forward and made progress toward them. By working together we can make an America that truly lives up to those ideals.
No different? Look who just learned they are a Corporate Capitalist White Supremacist...and just might have a conscience buried very, very deep..
I am a black African and your claim is nonsensical. Every history has a dark past and you guys used to know this. Whatever happened to you guys in the last 4 years?
And to be completely honest, any comparison of modern America to Apartheid South Africa is ridiculous and stupid.
People say many things. And in almost every case, they have an agenda. This is no different here.
Let not the newly fashionable focus on RacialJustice obscure that US's obscene, contrived, Roaring20's WealthGap & US's grotesquely discriminatory WhiteCollarJustice are harming more than 90% of Americans. JoeBiden DNCWarRoom
America pretended to be a land of freedom but in reality it’s a shade. As many keep thinking that there are those who own the country. Unity2020
Africa is a Black Continent...
For sure.
ALL Thanks to the FAKE NEWS Media and the Kenyan Obama!
That's where we're going to have a problem then. But not before we call out the propaganda from the news media. Like the lie here from ABC They spew hatred because they think that's what you want to hear.
🇺🇸 has only ever pretended to be a democracy.
GFY
Black people refuse to work and earn their place in society. They want the free handouts which keep them in poverty. EVERY OTHER RACE comes to America and prospers. Indian, Latino, Middle Eastern, Asian....all come and prosper in America except blacks. It's them, not us.
Good to see ABC still pushing BS.
Can anyone name a country that gives Blacks more freedom than the United States?
i dont take claims of racism from the media seriously anymore and i implore everyone to do the same. africans dont like african americans. hondurans hate mexicans. ppl hate and its already a crime to act on it. they just use racism to sew division cuz they know ppl get along
It is less about racism and more about classism. If we would stop and listen to each other, then we would realize that most of us share similar issues, all of which focus around the working class struggle.
Stopped racist like foolishness all of people die
It's really not but ok.
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The US isn't even in the top 20 worldwide in personal freedoms
It still is the world's beacon of democracy, freedom and progress.
We all bleed red so will you.
Keep us divided so we're fighting while you laugh fuck off.
So you mean blacks are also going door to door killing white farmers? Asking for a friend.....
There is no structural racism in the US. Blacks might have more poverty but that's not 'structural' or intentional. They may commit more crime but that's not structural either, other than their own making. More whites are killed by the police too if you adjust for crime rates. ☹️
Yes I remember that time when was the Apartheid, there was horrible massacres between tribes, white people wher unable to stop it. But I am sure no ones remembers that, only when a white police killed a Black people.
AllLivesMatter JessicaWhitaker Isn’t that right ? cnnbrk NBCNews cbs MSNBC maddow AC360 BBCWorld donlemon
Correct. They are killing the white skins.
“experts” experts also say the lying media deserves public ridicule and humiliation for being propagandists
We do more to help minorities then anyone.
Slavery and Apartheid maybe, Jim Crow laws? As abhorrent as they were, not even close to Apartheid. You’re diminishing what that period in South Africa’s past really was.
“Experts”
Black lives do matter, politicians with agendas do not. Our country needs term limits to allow diversity and stricter penalties for police with external investigations and jury trials for deaths in custody or unarmed. Citizens of every race shouldn't be afraid of cops
WTF? You literally can not have any company with a workforce with more whites than per capita which currently stands at 8%.....7%.....6%
Don’t the blacks control all the levers of power in South Africa?
Go fist yourself
😂 Another F student writing a propaganda article to keep the ABC’s John happy!😉 Came as a “toddler” but remembers apartheid!😝 Hire smarter people to write your garbage, racist propaganda! US is most mixed & accepting! Police are softest in history! Only idiots don’t know.
How about child trafficking. How about where the missing go, anyone. Any dem supporters know the answer
Yes they are killing white people and farmers in certain countries over there coming in torturing the white women hanging them from their feet and hacking to death the men . I’ve seen these pictures of tortured white people Then taking away the their farm lands
Calm down,idiots!
Yes it’s is exactly they same but totally the opposite.
South Africa may have had racism at one point but let me tell you something they are way way past it right now south Africans are living the way Nelson Mandela wanted them to as a rainbow nation they don't see race but character they don't look at the past but live in the present
All these hacks with their pamphlets you read this.
Really I read half way I saw bullshit .... George Floyd death was not racial ...they knew each other y'all need to get that part straight and stop using a mans deaths to scream racism .it wasn't a randomly picked black guy the cop that killed him worked with him ...stop this now
Lmao
South Africa is run by black Africans.
Racism doesn't happen one way....if you doesn't understand it you can't solve it
Racism exists on the whole world . Even in Canada. Men hate women. Women hate men. Religion.cases. colour cases. Race background. It never ends!
America is the least racist nation in the world.
Nonsense
You cannot even define 'structural racism'. Stop it.
Don’t need an expert to tell you that the white man has ruined many countries for his greed
Does structural racism exist in the United States:
Oh pls!!
doing what it does best, pushing the race card.
You sure you want to play this game? You may not like the conclusion..
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