Kaffir Boy Sparknotes

The story of Kaffir Boy was based on a true story, it told the life and daily struggles that young black children had to experience living in a world where racism was legal and people thought there was nothing wrong with it. This story took place in South Africa which was also referred to as apartheid. South Africa was apartheid because there were many laws and policies that were created in this country that were based around whites being superior and more important than other nationalities especially minorities. White supremacy was a big thing during this time period: you couldn’t marry other races, you couldn’t go to school with other races, and you couldn’t eat with other races; segregation was very much alive. Segregation separated the blacks from the whites, there were signs that showed what areas were specifically made for each race and if you broke the law you had to be punished.
He described how many times he was called the name Kaffir. Kaffir meant the same thing as being called a ‘’nigger.’’, they were both disrespectful mean words that whites used to describe blacks. It wasn’t a word that should have been worth answering to or being acknowledged as. He stated that the goal of his story was to make the white man feel the same way he felt when he was called those names. (3) He talked about his family lived in ghetto, living in the ghetto he had to sleep on cardboards and had to share the same blanket with his siblings, living in a 2 bedroom shack where there were 3 children and 2 adults. Eating his own mucus, having nightmares that the police were