Show notes Born a Crime Pt 2

Chapter 9

Read pages 118 and 120 Color

Discuss Colorism in Apartheid and how it juxtaposes to colorism as we know it America.

Proximity to whiteness is a recurring theme on planet earth due white-racism. Everywhere you go people know, if you’re black, stay back. Takao Ozawa v. United States decided that Asians ain’t white. U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind decided that not all Caucasians are white.

Talk about the story of the Mulberry Tree and read pg 123 introducing Abel

Chapter 15

Go Hilter!!!

Read pgs 185-186 set the listeners up to what he was doing for a hustle that would continue through post-graduation.`

Discuss how Trevor was able to navigate in and out of both worlds and become the consummate salesman through his language and understanding and respect for different cultures.

Read pg 190 and discuss the bootstrap theory

Read pg 192 discuss the limited options afforded to us if we don’t go to college for whatever reason

Read pages 193-199 GO Hilter Story

Chapter 16

Cheese Boys

Read pg 207 Discuss the plan and how something so small that we in American take for granted as Cheese is a big deal in poorer places.

Read pgs 208-209

Discuss how poverty forces you to do things to survive or to make it out of your dire situation.

And how Trevor humanizes criminals as well.