Apartheid in America and State Sponsored Inequality

[Bright Garlick]

As a prelude - I would be fascinated to see a breakdown of the racial differences on PA and to see what correlations exist between race and online opinions and behaviour.

Some of us will remember how Apartheid in South Africa was a huge issue in the 80's and early 90's and of course some folks will be aware of Apartheid and non legislated segregation in other parts of the world such as America and Australia.

What many of you will be unaware of is how Apartheid continues to be a state sponsored behviour in America, despite the Civil Rights Movement and the so called Fair Housing Act of 1968 and other such pieces of federal legislation.

Check out this episode of This American Life (my favourite podcast) for an enlightening and evocative exploration of state sponsored segregation. Of note is Mitt Roney's father George W. Romney and his role in the Nixon administration as the most progressive of politicians, perhaps of the last 40 years. He is a man well worth listening to !

America has come so far ???

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/house-rules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_representative_of_the_Twelve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt-Romney_family
http://www.amazon.com/The-concerns-citizen-George-Romney/dp/B0006BRVVE
http://www.amazon.com/The-story-George-Romney-salesman/dp/B0007DF1G8
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/george-romney/the-concerns-of-a-citizen/#review
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apartheid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_apartheid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-segregation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghettoization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%9368)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movements_for_civil_rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
http://isreview.org/issue/67/educational-apartheid-america
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid_in_South_Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Assassin%27s_Diary


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_LT9lKUtnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpWrRU9zCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdSiBehQpI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgbNc-9Di7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbBS2a0FLv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdn584ituWM

"No great nation has ever achieved plenty, comfort and leisure and remained great"

John Steinbeck