An Accepted Fact about Africans

While reading off page 66 in the memoir I noticed a unique way she saw the Africans around her. It’s like she had this mental notebook page that she titles An Accepted Fact about Africans and even though it’s pretty discriminatory, stereo typical, and just full on racist, she still felt like it was a detail on her childhood worth confessing. It’s good that she did because after that I was able to understand why and how she treated the workers around her house and how her levels of fear and anxiety rose when she was able to relate someone to one of her side notes. So you know what I’m talking about I will share a few.

·         If you spoil them they got cheeky

·         They were good at singing and dancing( Wikipedia makes it very clear)

·         The men were useless at weekends( alcohol might have something to do with it, just throwing it out there)

·         You’ll never hear a black baby cry (up until now I will agree to disagree)

·         They were heavy-handed with cleaning products

·         They were riddled with worms and bilharzia( heads up it’s a vocab word)

Up until now it can only explain one thing. Lauren looked down on them, and therefore the terrosrist were going to look down on her family and on her race as well. History repeats itself and this just exaplains the massacre at the beginning of the memoir, or  atleast it all adds up together as to why they would break into her house and kill her family one by one.