Usage of the word Apartheid in your link is bogus! The word Apartheid is only used in order to evoke white guilt. It is argued that because of Apartheid, black

Usage of the word Apartheid in your link is bogus! The word Apartheid is only used in order to evoke white guilt. It is argued that because of Apartheid, blacks were poorer (even if blavk poverty increased significantly after '94, that is not the point.) The point is that the stereotype is that in South Africa black poverty is due to white people. Your article implicitly makes the same claim. Here is the quote: > Like the world, it was about 15% white, the rest African and Asian. Like the world, the whites were segregated from the non-whites by law (of course the West does have some blacks and Asians, but it segregates the vast majority of them). The whites lived in prosperity, the blacks in poverty, So here is the question: how can whites still be (implicitly) blamed for African poverty? Most african countries have been sovereign for more than half a century. Many of them have been sovereign for as long as history (or only had short periods of colonial rule) - e.g. Swaziland, lesotho, ethopia. The crude (and wrong) comparison ignores issues of culture, historical development patterns, traditional power stucture, etc... Cont. Below