From South Africa to Wako, Texas
I recently finished two inspiring reads that I feel compelled to share. Neither of these books are new , but I am very glad I finally decided to give them a chance. The first book is Born a Crime , by Trevor Noah. This book is equal parts informative and soulful. Noah lays the context of his childhood by describing apartheid culture in South Africa, where people of different races are systematically pitted against each other and hatred is fostered so that those in power can maintain power. Trevor's mother was a strong woman who ignored some of these structures, taking Noah to churches of different denominations, living in a white neighborhood, and exposing her son to a world outside of the invisible fence where he was supposed to stay. Trevor describes his journey of racial identification (being mixed), his scrappy entrepreneurial ventures as a child and teen, and ultimately why he decided to leave the bubble of South Africa and move to the United States. ...