Apartheid- Era Africa

This article is the connection we can make between the United States and Africa itself. I found this article at theatlanticcities.com. This article is a representation of what it was like to live in apartheid Africa. Like the United States before the civil rights movement, black people were subjected. Blacks were subjected in a different way though. Apartheid is simply following segregation in a manner of racial inequality. Instead of being called black, they were simply called non-European. The whites were generally labeled as European. This article was mainly posted to see what times were like during the arrest of icon Nelson Mandela in the 1960's. Like the Unites States many blacks weren't allowed to sit on the same benches or buses as the European people. The thing that separates Africa from the United states during the apartheid era was citizenship. South Africa simply expelled all blacks citizenship during the nationalist party takeover in 1948.

How is this just? To what extent would this possibly asset a community or a nation itself. How would one ever be able to raise his/her children in an area full of the black race and simply say you are superior to them. In my eyes this is an unjust idea. I understand times were different, however there is no grounds on the ability to call someone superior or inferior. To make matters worse it was the Europeans that stormed into South Africa with intentions to spread European Nationalism across the world. In Africa, countries are rebelling and still under influence so the Europeans in the late 40's did a terrible job of establishing and spreading Nationalism. I thought this article was a great thing to look into to connect the two histories of South Africa and the United States. This article made me think that if times were so different in the 60's , then what will it be like 50 years from today?