When I came across this weeks’ current event, I immediately thought I would be able to connect it to the Gilded age very easily. This recent event includes the suspension of a Teacher in Africa that was convicted illegibly being ‘racist’ towards children of her class after posting a picture showing a bunch of white kids sitting at one table and only a few African American kids , separated, at another table. As public schools reopened last Wednesday for the start of a new year, a teacher at Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke took this picture and shared it with the children’s parents, reportedly to show how they were settling in. Quickly this photo went viral, promoting further investigation to be administered. Sello Lehari, the political head of the provincial department did some questioning of her own. She had asked the school why the kids were separated, and the school simply replied that those kids did not understand the Afrikaans language the white minority was speaking. To Lehari, this was not an acceptable answer. Further investigation will be done on these events, and the school all in all, and if there are signs of racial discrimination found further actions will be taken.
This event can be closely related to the gilded age in history where the US, even after enduring reconstruction and the passing of several amendments to try and solve these problems, was still struggling with the fact that African Americans were not being treated as equal to white Americans.
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