Kaffir Boy
9/28/13
Racism is worldwide, and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things, and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed.” At least that is something that we don’t see any more. Now-a-days you can be unemployed and no one will come towards you to arrest you. I don’t understand why there is racism. We are all human and all children of God. If I could, I would put an end to it. We should all just worry about ourselves, our health. Not going around and making faces to African Americans or name calling them. The only way racist people will know how it feels would be by being on Kaffir boys’ shoes. Kaffir boy lived a living hell, as well as his family and the people that surrounded him. Kaffir boy’s family didn’t even have money for food so they would go to the locusts. “My mother would often take us children to the veld on the outskirts of the township, and there, from sunup to sunset, we would scour for locusts, which were so hard to spot because of the camouflage provided them by the veld’s yellowed grass and stubble.” They would usually go there to look for food because everything was hiked from them. Not only didn’t they have enough for food but the people that had been captured were being harmed.
Racism is worldwide, and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things, and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed.” At least that is something that we don’t see any more. Now-a-days you can be unemployed and no one will come towards you to arrest you. I don’t understand why there is racism. We are all human and all children of God. If I could, I would put an end to it. We should all just worry about ourselves, our health. Not going around and making faces to African Americans or name calling them. The only way racist people will know how it feels would be by being on Kaffir boys’ shoes. Kaffir boy lived a living hell, as well as his family and the people that surrounded him. Kaffir boy’s family didn’t even have money for food so they would go to the locusts. “My mother would often take us children to the veld on the outskirts of the township, and there, from sunup to sunset, we would scour for locusts, which were so hard to spot because of the camouflage provided them by the veld’s yellowed grass and stubble.” They would usually go there to look for food because everything was hiked from them. Not only didn’t they have enough for food but the people that had been captured were being harmed.