I’m loving the reading, especially the little values and things underneath the top layer of meaning. There are certain things that he says that seem so profound but he slips them in in a subtle way.
I’m fascinated with the picture he paints of his life. Mainly the fact that he was born a crime. It’s like when people say (about another person) “if stubbornness were a real person” or “if this side of Twitter was a person”, Trevor Noah is the human embodiment of a single crime. His life is illegal and I love the way he explains that. He was born in the very middle of two extremes, belonging to both. He blends in, somewhat, in both groups. He is a chameleon that can blend in almost naturally in the different shades of race.
He puts an emphasis on Language being the thing that separates and connects more than race. The way he put it is something like this: “on the outside I may look white, but if you talk to me in Zulu I will answer you in Zulu, if you talk to me in Xhosa I will answer you in Xhosa and shift your perception of this anomaly in front of you.” And for me, that was profound and put so legendarily. It reminded me of the Tower of Babel. Language was the thing that separated them after they thought to highly of themselves, but Trevor and his mom took that and used it to navigate the world, to connect them with people that look down on them.
I commented on Jacob’s and Jamie’s posts.
I’m fascinated with the picture he paints of his life. Mainly the fact that he was born a crime. It’s like when people say (about another person) “if stubbornness were a real person” or “if this side of Twitter was a person”, Trevor Noah is the human embodiment of a single crime. His life is illegal and I love the way he explains that. He was born in the very middle of two extremes, belonging to both. He blends in, somewhat, in both groups. He is a chameleon that can blend in almost naturally in the different shades of race.
He puts an emphasis on Language being the thing that separates and connects more than race. The way he put it is something like this: “on the outside I may look white, but if you talk to me in Zulu I will answer you in Zulu, if you talk to me in Xhosa I will answer you in Xhosa and shift your perception of this anomaly in front of you.” And for me, that was profound and put so legendarily. It reminded me of the Tower of Babel. Language was the thing that separated them after they thought to highly of themselves, but Trevor and his mom took that and used it to navigate the world, to connect them with people that look down on them.
I commented on Jacob’s and Jamie’s posts.
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