Response To Mathabane's Article 'Kaffir Boy'

Mathabane’s article on “Kaffir Boy” talks about his life in South Africa which was a period of apartheid, the separation of blacks and whites. Throughout the article Mathabane agrees that his book might not be appropriate because of the explicit context but disagrees with parents and school districts trying to censor the content because you take away the meaning and reality. For example, Mathabane states “special committee of administrators, teachers and staff, the school has begun taping over several sentences and parts of sentences in its copies of the book” ( Mathabane, PG 29). Mathabane feels that by censoring the book readers would not be able to take out the most important parts of the book the real concept of the situation that he went