lack kids embraced me.
he always felt like an outsider but with the black kids he was accepted
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another obvious outsider, right away.
they found peace and comfort with eachother, they both felt like outsiders, that they didn't belong so they were comforted with eachothers presences because they knew the other was facing the same thing
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“I thought you were like the otherblacks. You know how they love to steal.”
stereotypes and prejudice
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If you’re standing in the dock, English is the differencebetween getting off with a fine or going to prison
if you don't know english, you are probably seen as uneducated or below those who know english
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As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head whiteand black and brown were like types of chocolate
he was a young boy, he had no perception of race but the adults around upheld the standards of race. they treated him better because he was part white, the narrator realized this but was confused as a kid to why he was getting treated better and why he was called white.
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“Indoda yomlungu!”
i like the use of the different language here, it is something i want to use in my own narrative
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