"Born a Crime" Central Idea

Part A: What is the central idea of Excerpt from Born A Crime by Trevor Noah?

• Race-mixing during apartheid was against the law.

• Apartheid was not as terrible as slavery in America.

• Apartheid was rooted in hate and divided an already divided people.

• Trevor Noah explains apartheid and the history of how it came to be enforced.

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Part B: Select two pieces of evidence to support the central idea from Part A.

• “Then these groups were given differing levels of rights and privileges in order to keep them at odds.” (Paragraph 2)

• “They set up a formal commission to go out and study institutionalized racism all over the world.” (Paragraph 7)

• “To impose white rule, the Dutch colonists went to war with the natives, ultimately developing a set of laws.” (Paragraph 5)

• “The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other.” (Paragraph 1)

• “A million things had to go right for us to slip through the cracks the way we did for as long as we did.” (Paragraph 11)

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