Under Apartheid, Trevor Noah's Mom Taught Him To Face Injustice With Humor
NPRUnder Apartheid, Trevor Noah's Mom Taught Him To Face Injustice With Humor Enlarge this image toggle caption Getty Images Getty Images Growing up in South Africa with a white father and a black mother, Trevor Noah confronted prejudices on both sides. Essentially it's like being in a very stringent fitness class — if everyone is suffering together it doesn't seem so bad. These are small land mines that you pick up as you go from one place to the next; you go, "OK, this is sensitive here but it's not sensitive there." This is not a stranger, this is somebody that I live with and somebody that I love.. With the change in social media and sharing and videos and so on and sound bites, we now live in a world where people are part of conversations that they originally weren't really, so you're now overhearing everything that everybody's talking about and you're not part of the conversation.
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