Mr Stef Crease
It don’t matter if your black or white
Life is rarely, if ever, fair. It pushes you around, gives you a pop quiz in math, then kicks you while you're down, spilling chocolate milk on your new shirt during lunch. With all the heartbreak and disappointment life dishes out, there is one thing life did not bring upon us: racism.
Racism one of the deadliest diseases ever to traverse the face of the earth, is one of the few inequities that man has created. In 1993 the famous pop star ‘Michael Jackson’ released the song black or white, the lyrics of this song were a plea for racial tolerance and an end of racial violence.
For 46 long years our beautiful country was dominated by a regime known as apartheid. Apartheid an Afrikaans word which can be explained as "the status of being apart", was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party government. The NP were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, in South Africa.
In this system the rights of the majority black inhabitants were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Citizens of color were oppressed and denied of their basic human rights. These people were forced from their homes and forced to live in specific demarcated areas according to their race.
Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa. A series of popular uprisings and protests often turned violent and were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders.
Apartheid officially ended in 1991 but 1994 was a benchmark year ,not only did the album “bad” , which the song black or white featured on, win a Grammy , but it brought about massive change in South Africa. The term democracy was born and the countries first free elections took place.
It didn’t matter if you were black or white The constitution implemented equality and freedom of all people. No
Life is rarely, if ever, fair. It pushes you around, gives you a pop quiz in math, then kicks you while you're down, spilling chocolate milk on your new shirt during lunch. With all the heartbreak and disappointment life dishes out, there is one thing life did not bring upon us: racism.
Racism one of the deadliest diseases ever to traverse the face of the earth, is one of the few inequities that man has created. In 1993 the famous pop star ‘Michael Jackson’ released the song black or white, the lyrics of this song were a plea for racial tolerance and an end of racial violence.
For 46 long years our beautiful country was dominated by a regime known as apartheid. Apartheid an Afrikaans word which can be explained as "the status of being apart", was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party government. The NP were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, in South Africa.
In this system the rights of the majority black inhabitants were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Citizens of color were oppressed and denied of their basic human rights. These people were forced from their homes and forced to live in specific demarcated areas according to their race.
Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa. A series of popular uprisings and protests often turned violent and were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders.
Apartheid officially ended in 1991 but 1994 was a benchmark year ,not only did the album “bad” , which the song black or white featured on, win a Grammy , but it brought about massive change in South Africa. The term democracy was born and the countries first free elections took place.
It didn’t matter if you were black or white The constitution implemented equality and freedom of all people. No