https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3 Trevor Noah en-us 2023-01-30 18:14:55 UTC 2026-03-08 08:37:43 UTC hello@padlet.com spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554084879

]]> 2023-04-14 04:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554084879 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554100555 At the age of 3 Trevor digs a tunnel in his backyard and escapes so he can be with other children. Trevor didn't know before that being mixed or biracial was then illegal in South Africa. His mother worried for his safety

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“If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense.” (page 6)]]> 2023-04-14 04:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554100555 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554104848 Trevor was playing with matches and a magnifying glass in the garage of a white friends house and accidentally starts a fire that burns down the whole house]]> 2023-04-14 04:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554104848 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554107820 Trevor and his mother needed to escape an angry and racist minibus driver after church on Sunday and his mother threw him out of the moving bus and then proceeded to jump after him, saving both of them]]> 2023-04-14 04:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554107820 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554112763 Trevor and his mom moved to a mixed neighborhood for the first time and Trevor is learning who he is.

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"When I was 5 years old, we moved to Eden Park, a neighborhood adjacent to several black townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg — half-colored and half-black, my mother figured, like us" (page 58)]]> 2023-04-14 04:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554112763 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554127585 Trevor brought a knife to school so he could stay safe from a bully. He was sent to a psychologist (for the third time). The psychologist believes and agrees with him and allows him to leave the school.]]> 2023-04-14 05:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554127585 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554130866 Trevor Noah was born on February 20, 1984. being mixed he was illegal in south Africa ]]> 2023-04-14 05:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554130866 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554142251 Abel was a negative aspect in Trevor's life and soon came to be an abusive alcoholic

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“Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way." (page 36)]]> 2023-04-14 05:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554142251 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554152869 Trevor was sent to a government school and was put into advanced classes. When he went to recess, all the races were separated. just Trevor and an Indian kid were left alone. Trevor makes friends with him and shows him all the  African languages he can speak. The Indian kid wants to show the other kids. Then the others realize he may look different however Trevor is still the same as them through language.

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“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says 'We’re the same.' A language barrier says 'We’re different' .” (page 134)]]> 2023-04-14 05:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554152869 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554163808 Trevor's mother comes home with two dogs.  Trevor names them Fufi and Panther. They keep Fufi.

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“I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining. “Why are you crying?!” “Because Fufi loves another boy.” “So? Why would that hurt you? It didn’t cost you anything. Fufi’s here. She still loves you. She’s still your dog. So get over it.” (page 140)

]]> 2023-04-14 05:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554163808 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554166731 Trevor needed to make money and learned that he could sell pirated CD's for a good profit and met a lot of friends and cool people in the business

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"This was the most liberating thing in the world, because now I can afford choice." (page 151)]]> 2023-04-14 05:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2554166731 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560671997 Trevor's dad, Robert Noah moves out of their home and finds a house in Capetown with a new girlfriend]]> 2023-04-19 19:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560671997 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560674442 Trevor learned about how she was like him, also mixed and at the time illegal. He learned her story about how her family was smuggled out of the country]]> 2023-04-19 19:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560674442 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560676836 His mother's boyfriend Able shot Trevor's mother Patricia Noah in the leg and in the head. His mother survived the incident and never talked to Able again. Noah was able to cover his mothers medical bills and they thanked god for this miracle 

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"Abel had fired from behind the car. The bullet went into the back of her head and exited through the front of her face, and blood sprayed everywhere. Her body slumped over the
steering wheel." (page 283)]]> 2023-04-19 20:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560676836 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560686184 Trevor breakes his cousins ear drums and all the kids get in trouble. When his grandmother decideds not to beat Trevor she says she dosent know how to beat a "White child". Temperance Noah, Trevor's 80 year old grandpa tries to start a boxing match with Trevor when he was only 12 for a fair chance
 
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“I don’t know how to hit a white child. I am afraid that he will bruise and turn blue and green and yellow and red.” (page 112)]]> 2023-04-19 20:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560686184 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560690066  The system of legislation that used segregation against colored citizens of South Africa was abolished and having mixed children was no longer illegal ]]> 2023-04-19 20:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560690066 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560693593 Trevor's mother had a child with her boyfriend Able, Andrew Shingange was born sometime in 1992 as no one knows his real birthday]]> 2023-04-19 20:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560693593 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560700799 Before Trevor was even born, this event would effect how he was treated, his life, and how he grew up. It was the segregation/separate development of all of the separate racial groups in South Africa]]> 2023-04-19 20:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560700799 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560702979 Trevor's mother, Patricia Noah died on April 5, 2005 due to natural causes]]> 2023-04-19 20:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560702979 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560712018 Trevor's mother had a child with her boyfriend Able, Isaac Shingange was born sometime in 2003 as no one knows his real birthday

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"When my mom had decided to keep Isaac, I was
so close to writing her off. I couldn’t stand the pain
anymore." (page 266)]]> 2023-04-19 20:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560712018 spencmay000 https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560721226 She miraculously woke up in a hospital bead after surgery with the odds almost non-existent of her living.

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"The other bullet went through the back of her head, entering below the skull at the top of her neck. It missed the spinal cord by a hair, missed the medulla oblongata, and traveled through her head just underneath the brain, missing every major vein, artery, and nerve." (page 312)]]> 2023-04-19 21:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spencmay000/y08an4lb8zqikjg3/wish/2560721226