https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit en-us 2023-03-07 18:05:48 UTC 2025-10-24 15:38:21 UTC hello@padlet.com thai68 https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507346947 “These people have been so fucked by their own construct of race that the white person they were looking for was sitting right in front of them.”]]> 2023-03-07 18:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507346947 piko1 https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507351210 "Andrew was white. His family had access to education, resources, computers. For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” My family has been denied things that his family had taken for granted. I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without knowledge and resources, where was that going to get me? People always lecture the poor: “take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!” but with what raw materials are the poor to make something of themselves?" (pg.190)]]> 2023-03-07 18:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507351210 chen10984 https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507352120 “I was mixed but not colored-colored by complexion but not by culture. Because of that I was seen as a colored person who didn’t want to be colored.“

This quote related the the theme of Race and Racism because it explains how people were categorized into hierarchies based on how close to white they were. Under apartheid, Trevor wasn’t seen as colored because he embraced his Black culture instead of striving to become White.]]> 2023-03-07 18:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507352120 julian118 https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507360105 "You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all."

This quote relates to racism because describes how it can be used as a social construct that creates and perpetuates divisions between people based on their perceived racial or ethnic differences. Racism has been used by those in power to maintain control over certain groups of people and to justify oppressive policies and practices. By creating an "us versus them" mentality, those in power can manipulate people's fears to maintain their own power and control.]]> 2023-03-07 18:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507360105 julian118 https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507365568 "Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason."

This quote relates to racism by explaining how there is a system that operates on a logic that relies on racial purity, and therefore, mixed-race individuals are seen as a threat to this system.  ]]> 2023-03-07 18:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chen10984/Frit/wish/2507365568