AIR Project 5/7/2021
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- Sorry Trevor but there isn't that much food felt.
- What's for food today mom?
- I told the chicken to cross the road but he didn't!
- Trevor was born in South Africa where life was very different compared to what life he has now. They were living to poverty and with no education either.
- Why is it that the other side is always better and cleaner than the side I live on???
- Every Sunday, his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, takes him and his baby brother, Andrew, to three churches: an integrated megachurch that seeks “to make Jesus cool,” an austere white church whose pastor focuses on interpreting passages from the Bible, and an informal outdoor black church whose congregants spend hours praying for Jesus to alleviate their suffering.
- My name just John because my great grand parents are British.
- What's your name meaning? Mine is based upon the ancestor in South Africa?
- In Chapter 11, he explains that he navigated his lack of a distinctive racial or ethnic “group” in high school by reselling food from the cafeteria (since he was always first in line) and using jokes to pop in and out of various groups.
- Please don't hurt I didn't do anything officer!
- Noah recounts his family’s move from the colored neighborhood of Eden Park to the mostly white suburb of Highlands North, where he feels completely cut off from the rest of the children due to his race and ends up hanging out with the children of the neighborhood’s black domestic servants.
- In the final part of Born a Crime, follows Trevor’s budding independence at the end of high school as he transforms his CD “empire” into a crew of dancers and middlemen. In Chapter 15, he explains how his crew got locally famous through Trevor’s DJing and their star dancer, Hitler, whose inconvenient name shows the ridiculousness of both colonialism
- the culture of violence, abuse, and impunity in a country whose legal system still functions , protecting white people and their property against even perceived threats from people of other races but never taking black suffering seriously.
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