Top 5 ways US treatment of African-Americans resembles Apartheid South Africa

Juan Cole describes the Top 5 ways US treatment of African-Americans resembles Apartheid South Africa.

From 1949 though the early 1990s, South Africa was ruled by an Afrikaner Apartheid regime that made race the basis for law and politics, and which systematically excluded black Africans from their civil and national rights, empowering white Afrikaners alone. The social statistics produced by that regime, however, are not so different from those produced by ordinary every day legal and social practices in today’s United States. Impunity for white policemen who kill Blacks is one commonality between the two societies. …

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The primary difference between South Africa and the US (and Australia) is that the blacks were the majority in South Africa. In the USA, whites will soon become a minority among others: Chinese; Indian; Hispanic; African; Native. Whites in Australia are safe for a while longer.

Such racism can only exist when the whites succumb to the relentless racist propaganda everyday in the hope of some small material benefit. It is up to us white people to educate ourselves about what is really happening to non-whites all over the world. We cannot continue to blind ourselves with racist propaganda.

The only way to restore our own humanity is to see and realise the humanity in everyone else. There is no white, black, Asian: there are only human beings.

Again, this overcoming of racism is one of the biggest hurdles to the realisation of a Communist society. We cannot have people excluded from such a society unless they exclude themselves.