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Born a Crime, Culture, He had grown up in the homelands, where you had to…

- - - - "He was a a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself." pg 124
        
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        "Then the black mother raises the black children." pg 152
        
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        "These people had been so fucked by their own construct of race that they could not see that the white person they were looking for was sitting right in front of them."
        
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        "I floated. I was a chameleon, still, a cultural chameleon. I learned how to blend."
        
        This quote describes the experience of Noah's step father in apartheid-era South Africa, where racial divisions deeply institutionalized. The system not only imposed hatred toward others based on race but also made self-hatred in individuals by devaluing their identity
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        "Other colored people hated me because of my whiteness. Even though I identfied as being black. I had a white father. I went to and English private school." (pg.121)
      - "I was the anomaly wherever we lived. In Hillbrow, we lived a white area, and nobody looked like me. In Soweto, we lived in a black area, and nobody looked likeme. Eden Park, everyone looked like me, but we couldent have been more different." (pg.117)