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 :No we wouldn't, and more to the point, we didn't.  Until the 1950s/60s, in parts of the U.S., black people in the U.S. were ""banned"" from a lot of things:  All-white schools, the front of a public bus, ""white"" drinking fountains, some restaurants, sometimes from voting, and many other things.  Sometimes this was imposed by law, sometimes by just the way a state or local government did things, and sometimes by non-governmental ""common agreement.""  In at least one state, there was a law against marriage between blacks and whites that was not struck down by the Supreme Court until the early 1970s.  But guess what, none of this was ever called ""apartheid.""  It was called segregation, discrimination, ""Jim Crow"" (with reference to the actual laws), probably a few other things.  It had its own names, we didn't need to import a name from another language on another continent, and nobody needs to import that name to Israel, either.   "