THE FIRST APARTHEID.

Children without understanding why they distance them from their friends, young people confused to
see how their classmates treat them badly because of their different skin color, adults who must take
the farthest route to their home because they can not travel on the same bus as the respected one’s
whites. That was the beginning of the strong racial segregation experienced in the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.

It has marked the beginning of a great discrimination towards people of a race other than white.

Neonazis, white supremacists and members of the so-called alternative right ("alt-right") surrounded
demonstrators in a sort of counter-demonstration while chanting slogans against them, until recently
these catastrophes occurred in the US. UU

All this is given following the Laws of Jim Crow (1876). Which say that blacks can not vote unless they
meet certain requirements such as knowing how to read and write, have possessions and be up to date
with the payment of the tax. Soon an apartheid was established in which more than 13 million blacks
were forced to live apart from the rest of society. The houses, schools, transport, hotels, restaurants,
even the washings were divided to prevent the white man from being "contaminated" by the influence
of the Negro.

"I am convinced that the current invasion of Chinese labor [...] is pernicious and should be stopped. Our
experience with the weaker races - blacks and Indians, for example - is a good example of this
"Rutherford Hayes. 19th president of the USA, (1877-1881).

"[...] the wild tribes scattered, whose existence was only a few less insignificant steps, squalid and fierce
than that of other beasts. [Such a war would be] beneficial to civilization and in the interest of humanity.
"

Theodore Roosevelt.26º president of the EE. UU (1901-1909)

"America must be American. Biological laws show that Nordics deteriorate by mixing with other races. "

30th Calvin Coolidge. President of the USA (1923-1929)

All those were the presidents of the time who were against the blacks.

As a consequence, many people who were just looking for equality died, like the black singer Bessie
Smith, who had a traffic accident and died after traveling for a long time in the ambulance a hospital
that cared for her, even if it was not white, she died because of the "legal" segregation. This fact, and
many others, gave rise to the Movement of equal rights of blacks, led by Martin Luther King (1929-
1968).

-In truth, the violence was always in the atmosphere. Seldom did a week pass that we did not learn that
a black man had been beaten or lynched by mobs. (Between 1889 and 1922, the year in which I was
born, about 4,000 blacks were lynched). And we lived with the full awareness that our lives did not
belong to us. "Black writer Louis Lomax, in a book published in 1962

Unfortunately, all blacks were born subordinates, with the daily fear that death would come at the door
that day. Since they were children they knew that they were less than whites and that they should
always pay homage to them and lower their heads. Today you can still see that reflected, with the
experiment called '' Doll test '' in which by means of two dolls of different color they ask questions to
young children and you can always see reflected the bad perception they have about the black people,
about themselves ... Although there were many blacks who wanted to change that tragic life, most of
them had sad endings, that's why the others simply dedicated themselves to accepting the life they had.

Until 1963, when Martin Luther King led a march in Washington that succeeded a year later with the end
of the Jim Crow laws.

But unfortunately, there are still many cases of discrimination, both in jobs and in personal life according
to this 2015 data:

• 42% of those sentenced to death in the United States are black, when only 12% of the population is of
that race.

• The unemployment rate of African-Americans is 12.6% while that of white men is only 7.4%

As the great physicist Albert Einstein said:

- ''It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice''

We can not detract from the progress we have made over these years, but the differentiation of races is
a prejudice that has been around for a long time, and which is still inculcated now in a slightly more
discreet way. It can be noticed at a glance in the preference of colors and in daily expressions. It is
something that, if it can be finished, with a lot of effort and understanding that there is only one race in
this world, and that is called humanity.