You have more knowledge than me in this respect. Could you further elaborate on the Apartheid system and can you explain whether it was worse than Jim Crow?
It's funny how things are implanted in us from a young age that shape our interests.
I always had a fascination reading up about South African history and the Apartheid system. Imagining in my mind what it looked like when reading about a place so far off.
The first glaring and obvious thing is South Africa is a majority black country unlike the U.S.
So the system of Apartheid cut into every facet of life of blacks in South Africa. It was a rigid system of control that dictated your every movement in life.
The concept of Bantustans (black homelands based on ethnicity) developed under South Africa's Apartheid leadership and was essentially utilized to cut off blacks from political power. It was made difficult to even travel from one Bantustan to another.
When you look at these two systems they both had one goal in mind, maintain political power for whites at any and all cost by keeping blacks economically, politically and socially disadvantaged.
In South Africa it was even more paramount for the Apartheid government, given that blacks are the majority.
While in America black political power still would fall under the rule of a white majority even as blacks gained access to political positions, in South Africa black political power entails rule over a white minority ultimately.
Frankly both systems were two peas in a pod. I can only imagine that if a black person lived through both systems Jim Crow in the Southern US and Apartheid in South Africa, at the height of their existence, it would have been utterly nightmarish to experience.
The violence that accompanied dogs, guns, water cannons, arbitrary arrests and even death existed in both systems.
