Apartheid i Sydafrika og Nelson Mandela

Apartheid is a part of the culture in South Africa, and it has made some clear markings on the South Africa we know today. First off, what is apartheid. Apartheid is basically racism, but to the extreme, in South Africa they separated the blacks and the whites, made stores, schools, transport and so on, and then they made them either “white only” or “black only”. This was a part of the law, not just a policy. You could get finned or even go to jail for going into the wrong store, going on the wrong bus or even going into the wrong public toilet. To this day, it has set it’s marks on South Africa, we see a huge difference in the whites and blacks, where the white community is rich and wealthy, while the colored are working day in and day out and almost getting paid nothing. This was broken in the 60’s all over the world, with groups like Black Panthers and people like Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King. The sixties were the start of a lot of things, and it was also the start of the end of racism. Racism is a bigger topic than it has ever been, with the killing of George Floyd and the “I can’t breathe”-movement, the riots in the streets and on social media, BLM (black lives matters) and racism has never been talked about this much… apart from the sixties. It was so much worse to the point, where black people could not even be called people. The highly classed black people were butlers in the US, and treated like garbage. In south Africa it is about the same story, until a man named Nielson Mandela turned it upside down. He started the fight, but got sent to jail, but the rest of the country went wild, people fought the fight Nielson started, and after 20 years in a jailcell, he returned and became the president of South Africa and was the first black to lead the country.