Key Vocabulary Terms by Antonio Perez, Asucena https://padlet.com/2905328/2067zosax08i Made with ♥ en-us 2019-11-14 19:40:19 UTC 2025-10-28 16:23:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Apartheid 2905328 https://padlet.com/2905328/2067zosax08i/wish/411454898 Definition
impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.

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Mandela and what he said after the fall of apartheid. “If the pain has often been unbearable and the revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us the beginnings of a common understanding of what happened and a steady restoration of the nation’s humanity.” So before we part let us again state the truth clearly.

Why did he use it?
Apartheid was used in this speech because it compares New Orleans segregation to South Africa's  past segregation and how it harms New Orleans.


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Widely known
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To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an
inaccurate recitation of our full past. It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad
prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue.
What is done is done. The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are better for
it. Surely we are far enough removed from this dark time to acknowledge that the cause of
the Confederacy was wrong.
Why did he use it: To argue about why they put a pedestal up representing the past in the most important places.


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