What were the major differences between South African apartheid and American segregation?

Question

Moreover, why wasn’t the United States blackballed on a global scale for segregation the way South Africa was for apartheid?

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Answer 1

A small part of it is the “separate but equal” legal fiction. Supposedly you could get just as good food/service/education/whatever in a location designated for black people as you could for whites.

We know that’s not true, but it’s the legal fiction that a lot of Jim crow laws were based on. That it was okay because nobody was being short changed.

I don’t know that apartheid ever made that idea up in court, they just said “you’re going to fucking do it or else.”