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269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.

The Realignment

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South Africa - The Blacks, the Africans

No foreign nation ever diplomatically recognized this, but it was part of a claim that the departi government was in. They were trying to kind of, like say this thing that wasn't true, and was a kind of construction. And so you o it almost made real what had begun as a racist proposition. The black areas produce less, they were more poorly resourced. They were, you know, the parts apportioned for them, baba. So you get this kind of inscribing into reality, andand, and therefore it can be,. one of the things that i saw in south africa was, was that it can be, sort of, it can itself

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