... . What makes apartheid so intriguing is the fact that, unlike most events of racial oppression, the minority is oppressing the majority. The white population was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, but the whites were able to keep control of the countries' economy and politics. In 1978, South ... African blacks made up about eighty percent of the nation's population but only owned thirteen percent of the land and contained a share of under twenty percent of the national income. Health and education were two ... been achieved. Although blacks and whites are equal under American law, they ar...

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