Kaffir Boy

     In the story Kaffir Boy, kaffir is refered to as a black person. Kaffir is the South African way of saying black person as to the American word 'nigger'. Either word is used to discriminate Africans and African Americans. During the story 'master Clyde', a little boy refers to a boy almost his age as a kaffir. They learn these sayins in school and they think it is okay to use because that is all they know. On line 19, Mrs. Smith tells Clyde, " I thought I told you a million times to leave all that rubbish about Kaffirs in the classroom. Ellen's people are not Kaffirs, you hear! They're Bantus....". Although she tries to defend Granny and her grandson she still degrades them and doesn't really think nothing of it. This is a type of micro-agression because she just does it so easily.
      We were not born to hate people who are different. We are raised that way. We can control how we are raised but why let it continue on when we get older? Personally coming from a young African American female it would be extremely hard to let slavery go. Having a group of individuals not liking you just because of your skin color. Not even just black people but different races are also hated by whites and I just wish the world wasn't this scary place to live in.