born a crime

When my mother threw me out of a car as I drove I was nine years old. It happened on a Sunday. I know it's a Sunday because we were coming home from church, and because every Sunday in my childhood meant church, because we always went to church on Sundays. My mother was – and still is – a very religious woman, a very religious Christian. Black South Africans, like all indigenous peoples around the world, have adopted the religion of their colonizers. By "adopt", I mean that they forced us t...