Söndags-smakbit # 7

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag läser en uppväxtskildring från Syd-Afrika under apartheid-tiden, Born a crime skriven av Trevor Noah. Jag har länkat titeln till Goodreads där du kan läsa mer.

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“The government went to insane lengths to try to enforce these new laws. The penalty for breaking them was five years in prison. There were whole police squads whose only job was to go around peeking through windows – clearly an assignment for only the finest law enforcement officers. And if an interracial couple got caught, God help them.”

sid 105
“My dad´s restaurant was an instant, booming success. It closed only because a few people in the neighbourhood took it upon themselves to complain.
-You can keep the restaurant open, but you´ll need to have separate toilets for every racial category. You´ll need white toilets, black toilets, colored toilets, and Indian toilets.
-But then it will be a whole restaurant of nothing but toilets.
-Well, if you don´t want to do that, your other option is to make it a normal restaurant and only serve whites.
He closed his restaurant.”

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“As you walk, there´s every smell you can imagine. People are cooking, eating takeaways in the streets. Some family has a shack that´s juryrigged onto the back of somenone else´s shack, and they don´t have any running water, so they´ve bathed in a bucket from the outdoor tap and then dumped the dirty water in the street, where it runs into the river of sewerage that´s already there because the water system has backed up again.”