One of the most celebrated men of the 20th century is Nelson Mandela, the man who helped free South Africa from Apartheid rule. But however inhumane, disgusting and barbaric Apartheid rule was, it contributed to the growth of the South African economy and created tremendous amount of wealth for the white South African minority. A significant amount of this wealth was generated from South Africa’s vast gold mines that were all owned by whites. To make these mining houses practical and lucrative there needed to be a great hoard of inexpensive and replaceable labor; which was perfect because the white minority had an endless supply of cheap labor. The Africans. Given the fact that the Africans made of the majority of the population and had little power, influence or education they were not left with many choices to make money. More importantly, it was because of the African labor force that South Africa’s successful mining industry was successful because “Only the presence of cheap labor in the form of thousands of Africans working long hours for little pay with no rights made gold-mining profitable for the mining houses” (Mandela 154). Furthermore, African participation in the workforce was not only limited to the mines but to any other industry where there were great deficits in labor. In 1923, the Urban Areas Act was passed, “which created teeming African slums, politely called ‘native locations’ in order to supply cheap labor to white industry”(Mandela 237). During the World War II as many whites went to fight the Nazis the lack of white workers led to a high demand for labor which was why “between 1941 and 1946 the number of Africans in the city would double” (Mandela 167). The result of all of this cheap and dispensable labor was a period of robust economic growth where South Africa’s economy grew by “4.7% in the 1950s and 5.5% in the 1960s” (Jones 2015). The African majority of South Africa suffered greatly under Apartheid, while the white minority enjoyed great economic prosperity due to the oppression of Africans. In contemporary America, oppression of the non-wealthy and non-powerful is as ubiquitous as water is to the ocean. Large multinational corporations and billionaires have the power to give billions of dollars in donations to political parties and candidates in an effort to get secure their interests. In 2010 the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case stated that “money is free speech and corporations can give unlimited money to political issues” (Colbert 2:13). So now, institutions or people who have endless supply of money to give to candidates or politicians can drown out the voices of ordinary citizens who do not have millions or billions of dollars thereby silencing the voices of millions of Americans. Furthermore, a different type of PAC, the 501c4 was created that does not “ require it to disclose the names of its donors” (Colbert 0:20) literally creating a treasure chest of untraceable money to be used to grease politicians. These groups and money loopholes and designed entirely to help the well connected and the wealthy because these are groups that do have tons of money to spend. Ordinary hard working people who work normal blue collar or white-collar jobs do not have the means or funds to give so much money to political campaigns. This in turn causes their voices to be drowned out and the voices of the elite to be amplified exponentially.
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Due to the lack of formal education, one way where women were told and taught how to behave was through the depiction of women in literature. The authors of the such female literature were nothing more than people “who, knowing little of human nature, work up stale tales, and describe meretricious scenes, all retailed in a sentimental jargon” (Wollstonecraft 493), which essentially such portrayed almost every female character as an emotional, capricious women who cared only about the most superficial aspects of life and ignored anything intellectual. The result of such repetitive brainwashing was a society of women who were “taught to look for happiness in love, refine on sensual feelings” (Wollstonecraft 493) and lead to generations of women who abandoned intellectual thought for that of
Due to the lack of formal education, one way where women were told and taught how to behave was through the depiction of women in literature. The authors of the such female literature were nothing more than people “who, knowing little of human nature, work up stale tales, and describe meretricious scenes, all retailed in a sentimental jargon” (Wollstonecraft 493), which essentially such portrayed almost every female character as an emotional, capricious women who cared only about the most superficial aspects of life and ignored anything intellectual. The result of such repetitive brainwashing was a society of women who were “taught to look for happiness in love, refine on sensual feelings” (Wollstonecraft 493) and lead to generations of women who abandoned intellectual thought for that of