It will be decades before South Africans of any color can put the harm done by apartheid behind them.
It's been 150 years since slavery was abolished in this country, and they still ain't "over it".
One of my co-workers remembers when he couldn't drink from your water fountain. Time heals all wounds. But there sure are a lot of people denying that there's any wound there at all.
African Americans had a wound alright, but America has healed their wound, and today African Americans are the most recognized group of blacks in the world.
Their wound btw was foretold in the Bible. God in fact chose to use the black man's slavery wound and his exaltation in America as the timeline for the second coming of Christ.
With the use of symbols the Apostle John for instance wrote of them in Revelation 13, the interpretation being thus:
1 And I, John, stood upon the sand of the sea of Patmos, and saw in a vision America rise out of the sea, having peoples of the seven continents, and having the Europeans with crowns on them.
3 And I saw one of America's people as it were, wounded via slavery, and I saw their wound healed: and all the world wondered after them.
7 And it was given unto the wounded people to make war with the European Americans, and to overcome them. And more power was given them than was given to the other races of peoples upon America.
8 And all that dwell upon America's earth shall worship them, whose names are not written if the Lamb's book of life.
11 And I beheld another one of the wounded people (MLK) rise up in America, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a devil.
12 And he caused America and the Europeans that dwell therein to worship his wounded people.
13 And he doeth great wonders via the fiery speeches he delivered in the sight of the Americans.
14 And he deceived the European Americans, saying to them that they should make an image of his wounded people.
15 And he had power to give life unto that image, so that his wounded people would be able to sue and to take away the livelihood of the white Americans who discriminate against them.
16 And he caused all European Americans, the small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive his people in the workplace and in places of learning.
17 And that no European might operate a business (might buy or sell) save he that hired a quota of the wounded people.
Amazing isn't it, how that God knew about America thousands of years before this nation was ever established, and knew everything that would take place between white and black Americans even before the blacks were brought here as slaves. Just amazing!