Whites example sentences

Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks.” After the emergence of the new democratic South Africa, black leaders appealed to fellow blacks to forgive the whites for the atrocities they had committed while in power.In fact, there was a quarrel between the Bombay Gymkhana, a whites-only club, and Parsi cricketers over the use of a public park.The whites agreed to the principle of majority rule and that of one person one vote.The white rulers treated all nonwhites as inferiors.The colonial flavour of world cricket during the 1950s and 1960s can be seen from the fact that England and the other white commonwealth countries, Australia and New Zealand, continued to play Test cricket with South Africa, a racist state that practised a policy of racial segregation which, among other things, barred non-whites (who made up the majority of South Africa s population) from representing that country in Test matches.They could not even visit the churches where the whites worshipped.But unlike India, a large number of 'whites' had settled in South Africa and became the local rulers.During 1918 and 1919, the 'greens' (Socialist Revolutionaries) and 'whites' (pro-Tsarists) controlled most of the Russian empire.Supporters of private property among 'whites' took harsh steps with peasants who had seized land.Their relationship may not have been as bad as that between the whites and the blacks in South Africa.Many sensitive whites also joined the ANC to oppose apartheid and played a leading role in this struggle.In fact, there was a quarrel between the Bombay Gymkhana, a whites-only club, and Parsi cricketers over the use of a public park.