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Originally posted by Rudey
I understand that. I understand the fact that in general Americans are devoid of culture and roots. It's not completely a black thing. In Chicago you do see the Irish, but when you've got someone talking about how they are one part Irish, one part Fleming, one part milkman, and two parts Swedish...they are nothing and can only talk about their American roots...and even that barely. These people are plain old "White Americans".
Anyway, back to Africa. What was it that made the African American community act out about Apartheid but not slavery and ethnic cleansing? That is an explicit question that I am really interested in understanding.
-Rudey
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From my understanding of what apartheid was, it was much more closely related to the racial oppression that black americans recieved during the pre-civil rights era/civil rights era and many more black americans who lived and suffered through that could relate to the plea of the black africans who suffered through apartheid so it was a more immediate outcry. Basically, there was more of an identification to this system then there was/is to the whole issue of slavery.