>Jim Crow >was the name for America's system of Apartheid. The difference being that Apartheid ideology was more paternalistic (or pragmatic?) in its religous justifications - the Dutch Reformed Church saw blacks as the biblical hewers of wood and drawers of water, a conception that has nothing to do with punishment for original sin but conveniently explains low wages and poor living conditions (which, incidentally, have not improved under the post-Apartheid regime). Nicky -------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Nicola Mostyn (Taylor) Faculty of Economics Murdoch University South Street Murdoch W.A. 6150 Australia Tel. 61 8 9385 1130 email: n.taylor@stu.murdoch.edu.au %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%|
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