Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. ... The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... The white minority, fearing African majority rule, voted the National Party into office in 1948's whites-only general election. ... In 1950, the National Party introduced the Group Areas Act, which allocated separate living ar...

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As proven in the later years of the National party, the ideologies of apartheid were continually being abandoned in the name of siding with business practices for economic prosperity in spite of the conflicts it posed with apartheid's goal of completely separating races. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. ... The National Party could not have alleviated the myriad of problems it had without causing total destruction to the "system " it had built. ... "In March 1965, a delegation from " A Nationa...

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Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. ... Under the leadership of a political, national, figure in Sharpton whom leads the way in keeping racism relevant it seems that it spreads light on how a figure of the media can fuel the peoples fire on racism. ...

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Giovanni's Room and Another Country "featured characters struggling to define sexual, racial, and national identities, and the matter-of-fact depictions of gay relationships in both books surprised many readers" (ht! ...

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The Definition of Israel Before we begin, let me remind you of the definition of Israel. Israel considers itself to be a Jewish state (formally codified in its 1948 Declaration of Independence), which means that its entire purpose is to provide what is commonly referred to as a "Jewish homeland". Why a race or religion must have a singular nation-state forcibly created for it is something of a mystery; my sons are white/Asian interracial, so they have no "racial homeland"; should this be considered a crisis? The natives of the Americas have no distinct "homeland" either; should families be di...

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Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. ... He also used it as a national platform from which he spoke. ...

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