THERE WAS APARTHEID, AND THERE IS STILL APARTHEID — IF WE CHOOSE TO LOOK AT THE TRUTH

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I’ve been friends with rawgod for many years now, and I have to say that this is by far the BEST post he has ever done! It is a timely post, a humanitarian one … a reminder to us all. The video is particularly interesting and I learned a lot from it about Apartheid in South Africa only a short 50 years ago … and as I watched, I thought, “Is this where the U.S. is headed?” (I recommend using the closed captioning for the video, as the narrator’s accent is sometimes difficult to keep up with, at least for me) Thank you, rg, for this excellent post.

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

On Sept. 12, 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered by the South African government. They considered him the biggest threat to their apartheid way of life. Little did they know that he had already accomplished his goal of raising the consciousness of the black people of South Africa. It took another 17 years before Apartheid was officially ended, but it would not have happened without the hard work and great insight and organizing ability of Stephen Biko.

I have been singing his praises for more than 40 years now, but few seem to really care. So, when I found the video below, I just had to post it. It is only a summary of his life and work to make South Africa free, and does not present the real struggles he went through daily, but it is something.

So why do I keep coming back to the life and accomplishments…

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12 thoughts on “THERE WAS APARTHEID, AND THERE IS STILL APARTHEID — IF WE CHOOSE TO LOOK AT THE TRUTH”

      • South Africa was very much a cause in the UK back in the 1970s-early 1990s
        Peter Gabriel wrote this:

        Biko

        September ’77
        Port Elizabeth weather fine
        It was business as usual
        In police room 619
        Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
        Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
        Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
        The man is dead
        When I try to sleep at night
        I can only dream in red
        The outside world is black and white
        With only one color dead
        Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
        Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
        Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
        The man is dead
        You can blow out a candle
        But you can’t blow out a fire
        Once the flames begin to catch
        The wind will blow it higher
        Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
        Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
        The man is dead
        And the eyes of the world are
        Watching now
        Watching now.

        If you check out on You Tube you’ll see various performances, and the official video…Take you pick.

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          • What happened in South Africa is on going in this world….
            Not just with governments….
            It’s happening there now, in the shanty towns; amongst the immigrants from other African nations
            Ask any African American whose parents or Grandparents lived south of Mason-Dixon, and ask them if they think it’s coming back.

            Uyghurs in China.
            Tribal folk in the Amazon forests.
            And those a few stark examples.

            It could happen anywhere, any time.
            At least we have some legislation in the UK to curb some of the excesses, although far from perfect.

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            • I have good friends here, African-Americans, who have been telling me for at least a decade that it is coming back. I never doubted them, for I can see it with my own eyes.

              And yes, the Uyghurs and numerous others continue to live as slaves, subject to constant abuse and denigration. Can the U.S. return to the days of Jim Crow … heck yes we could. We don’t have Martin Luther King or John Lewis or Malcolm X to help today. We have controls in place, but they are proving weak. I don’t like what I see one bit, my friend.

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