orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (04/25/85)
I am afraid that Mr. Cramer has made a mistake in delineating the beginning of Apartheid: > > South Africa's apartheid laws started in the 1920s as a set of restrictions on > the jobs offered to blacks, because poor whites weren't always getting the > good jobs. The restrictions on where blacks could live were passed because > blacks had this disconcerting habit of buying or renting in desireable parts > of town, and the government needed to take action to prevent integration of > housing. (You'll find that a lot of the discrimination in housing in this > country is left over from when cities explicitly prohibited blacks from renting > or buying in certain parts of town.) In fact South Africa's restrictions on "colored peoples" began before the 20's. They were in effect when Gandhi came to South Africa and got thrown off the train for being "colored" even though he was an English trained lawyer. Gandhi worked against these laws in South Africa until he left for India in 1919. The movement he started is still trying to end apartheid to this day. The only way to prevent such laws from being passed is to have Constitutional prohibitions of discrimination. For example, the Equal Rights Amendment. tim sevener whuxl!orb
mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) (04/26/85)
>/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) / 8:31 am Apr 25, 1985 */ for India in 1919. The movement he started is still trying to end >apartheid to this day. > > tim sevener whuxl!orb So the only way to prevent the gov't. from discriminating when it wants to is for the gov't. to pass a law prohibiting everyone else from discriminating. Is this some new form of logic!?