Experts say South Africa shares many of the features of structural racism that are found in the United States.
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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.
"As I got onto Broadway, I saw a lot of people gathered around, police were everywhere," he recalled."I saw this one cop and, you know, I basically asked him, 'Officer, what's going on?' He looked at me, spat at me and he said, 'F--- you n----! Get the hell out of here!'" The chair of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, condemned Floyd's killing and urged"authorities in the United States of America to intensify their efforts to ensure the total elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin."
"The protests the world is witnessing are a rejection of the fundamental racial inequality and discrimination that characterize life in the United States for Black people, and other people of color," Sougouri wrote.
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