21 March: A day against racism and for humanity!
Is there a reason in 2023 for such a day?
Does it make sense?
And yet it does!
Awareness of the elimination of racial discrimination should be part of everyone’s everyday life.
But how many people know why this day is established on 21 March?
It is essentially a day of remembrance established in 1966 by the United Nations General Assembly
in memory of a tragic event that shocked world public opinion.
On 21 March 1960, police in racist South Africa fired in cold blood at a student demonstration
in the city of Sharpsville, resulting in the deaths of 70 people.
The young demonstrators were peacefully protesting against apartheid laws,
which had imposed the white minority regime in the country, applying the theory of inequality between the races.
But what was apartheid?
Apartheid was a White policy that both defined and enforced the discrimination of human groups within a state,
based on racial criteria in defined geographical areas.
The purpose of apartheid was therefore to stop contact between whites and blacks.
As an official state policy it was first implemented in South Africa by the National Party in 1948
and was repealed on 30 June 1991.
The term apartheid is now used to denote any policy of racial segregation anywhere in the world.
Discrimination existed in the areas of education, health care, recreation and entertainment.
but also other public benefits and services.
By the 1980s, a strong oppositional current had already emerged, which did not lose its momentum despite the attempt to reform apartheid politics.
In 1990, President Frederick de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, resulting in the
democratic elections in 1994 with the participation of all nationalities,
from which the African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela was elected.
Traces of apartheid can still be found in South Africa’s society and political scene .
Violence in all its forms is constantly changing face and it is imperative that we protect individual freedoms and rights. We must eliminate the danger for those who may be seen as expressions of difference.
Because in fact, we are all different but also absolutely equal and that is why it is absolutely necessary,
this day to preserve its value and significance over the years, for new generations to learn,
from childhood to love every person for who they are, regardless of their colour, language or religion.
Food for thought!
Of course, the peculiarity does not stop at the color as everyone believes, that today is exclusively dedicated to
against racism and racial discrimination!
It is also World Down Syndrome Day..
And so it is no coincidence that these two days share the same day of remembrance, as they “marry” each other perfectly.
Think about all of the above, don’t you agree that it is clearly an anti-racism day then?
