The Civil War was a powerful war, where change was forced among everyone. As we learned about the effects of the Civil War, we also found a connection of that to the Apartheid in South Africa. This event, like the Civil War was extremely frustrating to make change occur, but eventually makes its way by coming to a resolve.
Apartheid, unlike the Civil War was a reform that lasted for 40 years. The colonization by the British and Dutch started such reform. The purpose of the reform was to force segregation between white South Africans, and black South Africans. Though in the end, the black South Africans would be highly discriminated to the point of peaceful protest to remove this reform. The white South Africans would show no mercy in destroying this protest.
The sole purpose of the Apartheid was to segregate the two races. This would mean that the races would have separate beaches, buses, hospitals and schools amongst other things. The blacks were not allowed to travel out of the area freely, only with permission cards. Blacks were often crammed in small towns around the country controlled by their own small government. Living conditions were often very unsustainable, as the Apartheid kept segregation in a tight divide.
The Apartheid was a serious problem in the eyes of the black South Africans. Blacks began to protest for the end of Apartheid, but only peacefully. The whites, angry from such protest would answer in violence, beating and even killing blacks to scare them to stop protesting. Though situations were risky for the blacks, they still protested with strong spirit and willpower, as well as not answering with violence. A protester icon named Nelson Mandela led the protests with strong force. This extremely damaged the white’s look, as they only answered with violence.
Even when there was strong protesting, the Apartheid officially ended 40 years after it began. When the reform was removed, Nelson Mandela becomes the president of the country, as well as rewriting their Constitution. Such confidence of the protesting was phenomenal. In the end, every South African gained full privileges and lived peacefully with each other.
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Ben!
Wow Im the first to comment your blog. But your blog was good to read. I agree with you when you said the Civil War was a powerful war. I really don't have much more to say about your blog and Im sorry. I like how you all about the war.
you blog was really good. I don't think that many people talked about apartide. Its kind of funny when you think about apartide though because weve never lived threw it. But it wasn't funny to the people who had to live threw it. In africa the blacks fought so hard for equality. Apartide i guess sounded like a good idea but it wasn't. and the fact that the blacks handled it in the way they did.. wow. peacefully. i wouldnt have handled it that way.
this is a good blog. i didnt know what apartide was until ms garber showed us a new movie about it. i never knew that had actually done that. Even when seperating the two groups there was still violence and the blacks had to suffer poverty and couldnt go to places while some upper class blacks actually had a passport and could go to places but the goverment should have issued one for everyone just not one spefic group
its cool that you focussed on thwe acuall war because that was a major part.. in history also the events that led up to the war . but mainly the war and how it played out and ended over all this was a realy good blog good job
Your blog was good, I like that you wrote about apartheid. I also thought that the civil war was really powerful. I guess on paper they thought that apartheid was a good idea or something. I can't believe it really took 40 years and that Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for like 27 years just for protesting peacefully.
Your blog is a good summary of what went on between whites and blacks.
I liked the way you talked about the apartheid. You went a little bit further in depth, so i gained a few facts. It is ashame, how the Black South Africans were treated. You would think by responding peacefully, things wouldn't have outraged as they did. 40 years, was quite a long time, but thankfully it was finally over.Good job Ben!
Your blog was wonderful. When I read your blog, I discovered some similarities with the Apartheid and Civil War. By reading your blog I have found out that African Americans were discriminated by Americans, and White South Africans. Slavery became illegal in the US and South Africa. And since some Americans and White South Africans did not like African Americans they segregated them. They used people of authority to segregate blacks. For example after the civil war, the south developed black codes. In order to restrain blacks, from the many freedoms the white Americans had. For example in Apartheid, the blacks were not allowed to be in the city after a certain time. That was example of racism, just done legally by law.
I enjoyed reading your blog. I liked how you talked about what a Apartheid was. Like many other people, I had no idea what an apartheid. My overall opinion is that it was good how you talked about the war and actually gave details. Good Blog!!
Yes, I do agree that the Civil War was very powerful in the meaning that it left a great imprint on America. It was a good blog on how the differences of whites and blacks had to go through. Great job.
Your blog was a great history of the Apartheid in South Africa. It's hard to believe that people where still discriminating against others well into the 80's. Equality and freedom is still being fought for in the world. Like eeveryone else, i too did not know what the word apartheid even meant before class.
Nice blog!!!!
You were very discriptive on the whole story. I only have one question. Who do you think had it worst South Africans or African Americans? I would like to hear what you think on this.....anyway nice blog!
This was a really good blog ben. It was very informative. You showed the relation between the similar situations from the united states and south africa. Your ideas were very good. And i also liked how you anounced mandela and his efforts about the apartied. Good job. :]
I like how you emphasized the peaceful protests led by the black South Africans, and especially Nelson Mandela. The whole race relations issue that sparked the Apartheid is so similar to slavery, which was the 'catalyst' for the U.S. Civil War. I definitely agree that civil wars are very powerful because they put the fate of a country and possibly other countries at risk. I also thought of Gandhi while I read your blog because he used nonviolent protests for India's independence from Great Britain.
Once again I am glad that I read your blog. I know we were learning about the civil war and apartheid but I knew a lot more about the civil war than apartheid and your blog helped me understand it a lot more. I didn't think that Apartheid was just about race I thought it as a total different matter just like the thoughts I had on the Civil War at first. This blog will also be able to help me with the upcoming projects that will be due shortly. Good Job Ben! =]
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