Born a Crime

(Chris Devlin) #1

confused by that, but really it’s a
case of the West reaping what it has
sown. The colonial powers carved
up Africa, put the black man to
work, and did not properly educate
him. White people don’t talk to
black people. So why would black
people know what’s going on in the
white man’s world? Because of that,
many black people in South Africa
don’t really know who Hitler was.
My own grandfather thought “a
hitler” was a kind of army tank that
was helping the Germans win the
war. Because that’s what he took
from what he heard on the news.
For many black South Africans, the

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