His family had access to education, resources, computers. Three times two is six. La la la ta la. I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without knowledge and resources, where was that going to get me? Make something of yourself! There is also this to consider: The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine.
Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that's especially true in the West. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium's King Leopold would come way before Hitler.
If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. It's easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they're willing to participate in.
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don't see the person it affects. We don't see their face. We don't see them as people. Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind.
Because if white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off.
If we could see one another's pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.
Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love. If I don't punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn't love you. If the police get you, the police don't love you. When I beat you, I'm trying to save you. When they beat you, they're trying to kill you.
I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all. Yes, I played pranks and set fires and broke windows, but I never attacked people.
I never hit anyone. I was never angry. I just didn't see myself that way. My mother had exposed me to a different world than the one she grew up in. She bought me the books she never got to read. She took me to the schools that she never got to go to. I immersed myself in those worlds and I came back looking at the world a different way. I saw that not all families are violent.
I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that's inflicted on people that they in turn inflict on others. I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.
After that, she never raised her hand to her children again. Unfortunately, by the time she stopped, Abel had started. When he said that, my body just let go.
I remember the exact traffic light I was at. For a moment there was a complete vacuum of sound, and then I cried tears like I had never cried before. I collapsed in heaving sobs and moans. It was not catharsis. It wasn't me feeling sorry for myself. It was an expression of raw pain that came from an inability of my body to express that pain in any other way, shape, or form.
She was my mom. She was my teammate. It had always been me and her together, me and her against the world. Mom, you were shot in the face. There is no bright side. Now you're officially the best-looking person in the family. She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing.
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The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Now an internationally renowned comedian, the narrator and protagonist of Born a Crime was born in to a black Xhosa mother Patricia and a white Swiss father Robert. As a child, he is mostly confined inside because he looks colored , not black, so the government could forcibly put him up for adoption and relocate him if they discover him living with his family.
When he visits his grandmother Frances and their family in Soweto , he cannot play outside with his cousins but also gets plenty of special privileges because they see him as white and he speaks English. Trevor learns to navigate his position as a constant outsider by building bridges through language: he learns Afrikaans , Zulu , Tsonga , in addition to English, Xhosa, and a handful of languages he never even mentions in the book.
By always speaking with people in their native languages, he reassures and connects with them, building trust and often avoiding possibly violent confrontations. Instead, his closest friends are books and his mother. In high school, he continues to feel isolated from any particular group, but he finds a niche by spending his lunch hour reselling cafeteria food which buys his bus ticket home and joking with various groups of students.
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