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What was the Apartheid?

What is an Afrikaans?

Why was there racial strife in South Africa?

What was Nelson Mandela's personal history?  Where/when was he born?  What was his education?  

Why was Nelson Mandela put in prison?

What kind of prison was it? Where was it located?

What happened to his family while he was in prison?

How long was he in prison?

How did he become President of South Africa?

What were his goals as President of South Africa?  How did he accomplish these goals?

1. Apartheid means separation between whites and blacks that live in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1994 it was made into international law but it was also a violation. Also when the law took place people were classified as whites, black/African or blacks of mixed cultured descent.  

2. A language of southern African, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century

3. White people in South Africa did not want black people as ruler so they protested to be separated from the blacks and in later years the blacks held strikes because of inferior working conditions.

4. Mandela was born on July 18 1918 (age 94) in Mvezo, South Africa 

5. Nelson Mandela was arrested and jailed because he was accused of treason by the South African government.

6. Nelson Mandela was first imprisoned in Howick, then transferred to Marshall Square prison. Mandela and his co-accused were transferred from Pretoria to the prison on Robben Island where he remained for the next eighteen of his twenty-seven years in prison. In March 1982 Mandela was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison.

7. Mandela mother and son died and he was not allowed to attend their funeral. His wife and daughter did not want to have anything to do with him because he choose to stay in jail.

8. Mandela spend 27 years in prison.

9. After Mandela came out of prison. South Africa's first multi-racial elections began in which full enfranchisement was granted were held on April 27, 1994. The ANC won 62% of the votes in the election, and Mandela was the leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on May 10, 1994. and the country's first black President.

10. His goals as President wanted peace between white people and black people and wanted everyone to be treated equally and come together as one nation. he accomplished his goals by focusing on what white people and black people have in common and bring them together by that (Rugby).

Race and Racism

what young people know and understand about race.  Is there a difference between how genders experience race and racism?

Racism is very real for young people today. Young people know and understand about race and also do not know that every gender experience racism in different ways. This means that racism has had a major affect on everyones lives, even starting from birth as a young child. Whatever your color, gender, and cutural background is everyone experience racism in the world.

Many adults try to hide racism from their children but the problem is, little kids already know about racism. In the film "A Girl Like Me" young children that were African Americans were given a test on which doll they would like to play with. More than half of all the children would rather play with a white doll than a black doll. These children thought white dolls were prettier and nicer, and the black doll were hideous and evil. Racism is not taught, it's something they learned from expirence.

Decades many people have been discriminating against African American people and bring their self esteem down also. When someone thinks about African American people they see kinky hair, dark skin, ugly and bad. Truth is not all people with dark skin is evil. Trevon Martin was followed and killed for being African American and wearing a hoodie. Trevon was killed by a white man who thought Trevon was a threat to him. The police department did not react quickly to this because he was a "white man". If the story was the opposite and Trevon was white and the killer was black, the man would have done life in prison without hesitating.

In conclusion, 

Glory Road Open Ended

When people generally react to those who are willing to step outside the box many other people find their actions unacceptable because many people do not think it is okay for them to let people do what they want in their own way. From the movie "Glory Road" Bobby Jo scene he mentions how he have a great love for basketball but no body do not want to see him play on any teams because of the color of his skin. What Bobby Jo means is he is judged by the color of his skin and African Americans can not play on the same team as white players because everyone think of African Americans differently. Its very important for Don Haskins to think differently because its unbelievable that a White coach would ever put all black players on a team. In the movie it explains how Don Haskins looking for many African American players to play for his team, he mentions "im not looking at the color i look at quick and skill". Don Haskins wanted to make a difference in the basketball world, he wanted people to know that African American should play with white players and their very good at the sport and to do not judge players by their skin. Don Haskins reminds me of how coaches act towards their players today, many coaches do not look for a certain skin color they only look for skills.