Direct, factual tone at the beginning of the passage:

• list facts "English, European literature, medicine, the law"

• assertive phrase "It's no coincidence that..."

• refer to known figures "Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko"

Critical tone in the middle:

• strong language "cripple", "primitive", "forced into crowded classrooms in dilapidated schools", "for generations"

• repetition in triplets: "no science, no history, no civics", "how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil"

• oversimplification and irony: "they were simply being honest"

• rhetorical questions "Why educate a slave?"

Darkly comical tone at the end:

• hypothetical direct speech "If the monkey can walk like a man... Why give the book to a monkey?"

• monkey analogy

Paragraph 1: context

• "black family... black neighborhood... black country": repetition

• "only witches have cats, and all cats are witches": parallelism + circular reasoning

Paragraph 2: present the situation

• "did what any sensible black person would do": verbal irony, light-hearted tone to set up the shock

• "kicked it and stomped it and beat it to death": repetition in a triplet, strong language, contrast with the previous statement

Paragraph 3 & 4: explain the situation

• "...lost their shit. Oh my word, it was insane": colloquialism (casual language)

• "What was ironic ... that's what sent them over the edge": direct satire, situation irony

• "Obviously that cat was a witch": exaggeration

• "How else...?": rhetorical question, exaggeration

• "In South Africa, black people have dogs": justaposition, situation irony, anticlimactic end

strong language from the beginning of the passage: "baked in", "never made any sense"

short sentence for emphasis: "Racism is not logical."

humorous tone "I don't mean they were running around acting black"

hypothetical and ironic direct speech with a callous tone: "Eh, we'll just call 'em black. It's simpler that way."

juxtaposition between the treatment of Chinese and Japanese people in two different paragraphs

hypothetical comical dialogue at the end: "I didn't mean to be racist..."