Joel Briscoe: The young people are asking, ‘When will we be safe?'

In 1984 I was arrested for protesting against apartheid in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. It is against the law in D.C. to protest within 500 feet of an embassy.For over 30 years South African apartheid laws had divided South Africans by race into four strictly segregated groups: whites, coloureds (mixed-race), Indians and blacks. Black people could not marry other races, start businesses or work in white areas without a permit. They were segregated and unequal at hospita