Racism

The trial is based on the Scottsboro boys trial and another one involving a white woman named Naomi and an African American man whose last name i think was Lett

Very Good! The trial was actually based on a man named Walter Lett. And believe it or not, he was only ten years old! And the Radley's are based on a house down the street from Lee

In the South, they had the bad luck to have inherited slavery and their leaders remained attached to it till the end. Even President Thomas Jefferson had slaves.

In the North racism abounded. Many Northerners believed slavery was immoral and unjust, however, for them and even among most abolitionists, African Americans were seen not to be equal to whites.

Two examples are the following:

1. At one time Blacks were not even allowed to be in Illinois; and

2. Among white immigrants, especially the new Irish workers in New York City, their draft revolt was centered on lynching and killing Free Blacks and burning down a Black orphanage.

Segregation is separation:

1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

2. (Science: geology) separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.

3. (genetic) the formation of unique gametes from the genotype of the parents.

The KKK, or Ku Klux Klan, is a group (also known as skinheads) who are racist, often violently so, against gays, blacks, Islamics, Jews, and others.

You would have to ask one of them yourself, but I think it is because they were raised up to just not think of other people to have feelings and thoughts like themself, and that for some reason other ethnicities/religions/etc are inferior, and just aren't human.

They have no reason to back it up: My father (who is Jewish) was talking to a friend (not KKK, but anti-semetic). They got into a whole argument about how Jews are bad, and he'd know right away if there was a jew, and my dad still giving him chances to get out of it, and my dad and his other friend (who knew) were almost cracking up, because the guy was positive. This just goes to show that the KKK just don't understand, but have been affected too deeply to change. Just ignore them.

A bottle of compressed gas. The K references a specific wet volume of 49.9L. Other std sizes can be found on the related link.

This term can also refer to a vial (bottle) of the (mostly veterinary) anesthetic Ketamine.

The larger question is why do people always compare themselves to others so that they can feel better than others? I'm not so certain that racism is the main reason; prejudice occurs between rich and poor, the "in crowd" and the nerds, Catholics and Protestants, Muslims and Jews, red states vs. blue states, people with new cars and those with old--anything that is seen as an apparent difference. As the saying goes, "it is always something." What is amazing to me is that it often is something that the person couldn't do anything about to fit in! If you look closely and take the time, one can always find a commonality with any other person on the planet and find peace.

It can be argued that the whole of society must find a definitive guideline for a standard of living and not operate solely on perceived differences, it is true that is often the the one who has set themselves apart from the crowd to be at fault, not the the will of the group.

The term Apartheid was introduced during the 1948 as part of the election campaign by DF Malan's Herenigde Nasionale Party(HNP - 'Reunited National Party'). But racial segregation had been in force for many decades in South Africa. In hindsight, there is something of an inevitability in the way the country developed its extreme policies. When the Union of South Africa was formed on 31 May 1910, Afrikaner Nationalists were given a relatively free hand to reorganize the country's franchise according to existing standards of the now-incorporated Boer republics, the Zuid Afrikaansche Repulick (ZAR - South African Republic or Transvaal) and Orange Free State. Non-Whites in the Cape Colony had some representation, but this would prove to be short-lived.

This however only says HOW Apartheid began. The true meaning was because the white South Africans found it difficult to teach their technology to the local Black population and had to enforce a system so that they didn't mix with them. At the time (1948) around the world Black people (even in America) were considered second class, but here it lastes until 1994 because the white population were a minority ironically. If Apartheid did end (which is did) they feared that the uneducated black population would rush into towns and cities and not know how to properly function in those types of daily conditions. For example they tried lighting fires in their newly bought apartments as a method to keep warm. Obviously this didn't work. This has actually happened.

In 1950, the Group Areas Act was adopted, barring people from living, operating businesses or owning land anywhere else but in the areas designated for each race. These acts, along with two others adopted in 1954 and 1955, became known collectively as the Land Acts. As a consequence of the Land Acts, more than 80 percent of South Africa's land "belonged" to the white minority.

In order to enforce the segregation of the races and keep blacks in "their place", the existing so called "pass" laws were tightened and laws forbidding most social contacts between the races and authorized segregated public facilities were introduced. Further more the laws established separate educational standards, restricted each race to certain types of jobs, curtailed nonwhite labour unions, and denied nonwhite participation (through white representatives) in the national government.

The cruel regime of racism in South Africa was upheld by an elaborate system of banning, an efficient tool in suppressing all kinds of opposition coupled with lying, persecution, torture and killings. In effect, the Apartheid regime affected every aspect of social, political, cultural, intellectual and educational life; publications, organizations, assemblies and not least the South African extra-parliamentary liberation movement - the African National Congress - ANC, as well as the individual freedom of travel or speech.

The banning of organizations or of individuals was originally authorized by the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, with many subsequent amendments; these laws were superseded by the Internal Security Act of 1982, which retained nearly all their provisions. The definitions of communism and of the objects of communism were very broad and included any activity allegedly promoting disturbances or disorder; promoting industrial, social, political, or economic change in South Africa; and encouraging hostility between whites and nonwhites so as to promote change or revolution. The main organizations banned under these laws were the Communist Party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC), and the Pan-African Congress.

More than 2,000 people were banned in South Africa from 1950 to 1990, labelled a communist or terrorist, or otherwise a threat to security and public order. The banned person would in effect be a public nonentity; confined to his or her home; not allowed to meet with more than one person at a time (other than family), hold any offices in any organization, speaking publicly or writing for any publication. Also barred from certain areas, buildings, and institutions, such as law courts, schools, and newspaper offices. A banned person could not be quoted in any publication. In spite of the elaborate and powerful regime of suppression, resistance prevailed, and Black African groups, at times with the support of whites, arranged demonstrations, strikes or sabotage etc. The black African young students protest in Soweto in 1976 against the attempt to enforce Afrikaans language requirements, turned into a bloody riot by the police, became the symbol of a just struggle that shook the world into reaction against the brutal apartheid system. It even caused some white South African politicians to call for relaxed restrictions, some even called for racial equality. But the government did not give in. The ban on opposition groups and antiapartheid activists were only lifted in 1990.

But by 1978 the illusion of peace and prosperity for the white minority rulers with continued apartheid was shattered. Most of the homelands were economic and political disasters, and the protests continued to grow. In 1983, 1,000 black and white representatives of 575 community groups, trade unions, sporting bodies, and women's and youth organizations launched the United Democratic Front. This sparked off a vast escalation of strikes, boycotts, and attacks on black police and urban councillors, resulting in 1985 in a state of emergency declared in parts of the country. A year later the government declared a nationwide state of emergency and embarked on a savage campaign to eliminate all opposition. During 3 years police and soldiers terrorised townships, destroying black squatter camps and detaining, abusing, and killing thousands of Africans, while the army also continued its forays into neighbouring countries.

The government tried to conceal the atrocities by banning television, radio, and newspaper coverage, but international criticism and actions were growing. Economic sanctions such as those imposed by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1985, fuelled the pressure mounting both inside and outside South Africa. Already in 1961 South Africa had been forced to withdraw from the Commonwealth due to its racial policies. Increasingly isolated as the last bastion of white racial domination, South Africa now was the target of global denunciation. Attempting to pacify unrest and criticism, the government abolished the "pass" laws in 1986. But still it was illegal for a black African to live in designated white areas, and the police held broad emergency powers.

Only in 1990-91 came the real shift of policy, and thus the unravelling of the much hated system was speeded up. In 1990-91 most of the legal basis for apartheid was repealed, but racial segregation continued in practice. During 1991 Parliament repealed the basic apartheid laws, including the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act, and the Land Acts; the state of emergency was lifted. Many exiles were allowed to return, and many political prisoners were freed, including the imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela later to become South Africa's truly democratically elected first president.

The basis for real change came with the new constitution that granted voting rights to all South Africans irrespective of race. In the all-race national elections in April 1994, ANC won 63 percent of the vote and produced a coalition government with a black majority. On May 10 Mandela was sworn in as president of the new South Africa. The new constitution contained a long list of political and social rights and a mechanism through which Africans could regain ownership of land that was taken away under apartheid. The deeply entrenched social and economic legacy of apartheid will for some time scar the multinational South Africa.