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This was a beautiful read. Very captivating, very eye-opening and very touching. Reading it opened my eyes to much I didn't know. I thought I knew Trevor Noah. I've been a fan of him for years, I've watched his show and his stand-ups. I thought I knew about South Africa and Apartheid. I've visited the place. I walked around townships and rich, white neighborhoods. But reading this, I realized how much I didn't know and how much you cannot learn from history books. Born a Crime takes the reader t
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You hear and read about something like Apartheid, poverty, abuse, or (domestic) violence and think you know all about it, when you actually don’t have a clue how they really translate into daily lives of people. They are merely, as Noah stated, historical “facts” to us that seem to be resolved long time a go and now we need to move on. Though they are not. Not for people who lived through them.
Born a crime was bitter, like most of Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedies, but then again mind blowing. I l ...more
Born a crime was bitter, like most of Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedies, but then again mind blowing. I l ...more
"I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all
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