Born a Crime, is a book written by Trevor Noah which tells the story of him being illegal against the law because of having parents from different races during the apartheid at Africa. The book talks about how his everyday looks like being ‘born a crime’ living around people who are different from him. Being ‘tagged’ as ‘white’ or ‘colored’ but having the heart and culture of a black. The books talks about his child hood which have informed about how the apartheid is scary towards the Black Africans. How blacks do not have power and rights to do many thing. How the blacks do not get well educated and was train to be slaves in the future.

One of the central ideas I find in this book is about power. At chapter 2’s ending, Trevor’s mother Patricia said that “This is my country. Why should I leave?” when Trevor ask her why did not Patricia took Trevor away during the apartheid. This made me think about that why does the black Africans do not have any rights and powers when they are living at their country? Why do the UK and whites have power? The whites have more rights and power than the natives which makes me think that this is out of logic. However, as the story goes on, it says that the UK have power mostly because of their military which let me think that they do not have the right to invade other’s country and enslave them. Trevor states that if a black sees a yellow car on the street, they would ran away because the cops will just spank them for no reason which leads to the second central idea, racism. The book also criticize people for being racist to the black Americans. The book talks about the apartheid which a main event of it is the Bolo education which is just limiting the sources that the blacks can get and make them uneducated and make them into slaves of the whites. In chapter 4 it talks about Trevor getting into a private school with different races and when he was identified as white, he gets into the A-class which has well education but when he says that he want to be with his black friends. The consoler says that “You don’t want to be friends with those kids.” which I find to be racist. I found this part being very sarcastic and awkward because in his own words, he is a ‘chameleon’, but not changing the color by himself, but by how others view him. He is always expressing the culture and idea of the black Africans, but people view him differently, some see him as white because of his skin, and some see him as black because of his identity and when he was viewed as white, he gets many sources just like the education is A-class, but as black, then gets bad education in B-class.

 

This page talks about how I view the perspective of Trevor Noah and how strong his voice is (his power and how he is expressing his own ideas to the world). I wrote about how Trevor Noah criticizes the society for being racist to others. How his point of view (being colored) makes how he views the world being different.

This page talks about what I think the author Trevor Noah wanted to express to others.

This pages talks about the interesting ending I found in chapter 2 which makes me think a lot about power and rights. Makes me think about why does the natives not have enough power? I think this ending wants to make the reader to think more and to get what Trevor want to express.

This page talks about Trevor Noah and why his perspective is unique. Which is because his race, color (being colored) and self identity. Having a white father and black mother makes him be illegal, but also makes his view towards the word being unique.