ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates economic inequality in general and the situation of the Blacks, in particular in two former Apartheid societies, the United States and the Republic of South Africa. It analyses the segregation and economic discrimination as they exist in the present-day United States. The first constitutional elements of the Apartheid system were already established in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. In 1990, however, the Apartheid system was abolished after decades of national protests and uprisings and international critiques and trade embargos. The persistent aftermaths of slavery and of Apartheid were then also shown in the case of South Africa. The characteristic of the origins of the Afro-Americans is closely related to a similar and equally persistent discrimination which is experienced by Native Americans, the Indians. The ideology that all races have the same rights and are provided with the same facilities, although in separate institutions, however, was not realized.
