Shared by Dannie Gore, Sr. 

The parallels between South African Apartheid and the treatment of African Americans in the United States ought to be too obvious to need enumerating. The whites only signs, the outside agitator explanations for revolt, and the religious justifications for inequality are very familiar to Americans. Even notorious pass laws have their parallels in Southern slave control systems. The shock of seeing the same overt racist ideology often confuses both Black and White American radicals. 

Some radicals treat South Africa as if it were a microcosm of the United States. They think the Black workers should unite with the White workers to overthrow the bosses who are exploiting both. Such an analysis ignores the absence of a poor white class in South Africa. Job reservation ensures white wage workers the best, usually supervisory, jobs. Domestic servants have become a universal feature of white households in South Africa. 

-Bill Sales, 1977