{"id":49665,"date":"2016-10-30T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49665"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:05:37","slug":"trevor-noah-the-first-time-i-drove-a-car-i-was-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49665","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah: The First Time I Drove a Car. (I Was 6.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trevor Noah: The First Time I Drove a Car. (I Was 6.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-10-25<\/p>\n

Trevor Noah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nTrevor Noah<\/a>, at 3 years old, with his mother.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Trevor Noah<\/a> is the host of \u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>\u201d and the author of \u201cBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood<\/a>\u201d (Spiegel & Grau). This is an edited excerpt from the book.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was 5 years old, we moved to Eden Park, a neighborhood adjacent to several black townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg <\/a>\u2014 half-colored and half-black, my mother figured, like us. It was me and her, alone. There was this sense of the two of us embarking on a grand adventure. We weren\u2019t just mother and son. We were a team.<\/p>\n

Eden Park was one of those \u201csuburbs\u201d that are actually out on the edge of civilization, the kind of place where property developers have said: \u201cHey, poor people. You can live the good life, too. Here\u2019s a house. In the middle of nowhere. But look, you have a yard!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was when we moved to Eden Park that we finally got a car, the beat-up, tangerine Volkswagen Beetle<\/a> my mother bought secondhand for next to nothing, which was more than it was worth. One out of five times, it wouldn\u2019t start. There was no A-C<\/a>. Any time I made the mistake of turning on the fan, the vent would fart bits of leaves and dust all over me.<\/p>\n

Whenever it broke down, we\u2019d catch minibuses, or sometimes we\u2019d hitchhike. My mom would make me hide in the bushes because she knew men would stop for a woman but not a woman with a child. She\u2019d stand by the road, the driver would pull over, she\u2019d open the door and then whistle, and I\u2019d come running up to the car. I would watch their faces drop as they realized they weren\u2019t picking up an attractive single woman but an attractive single woman with a fat little kid…<\/p>\n

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Trevor Noah: The First Time I Drove a Car. (I Was 6.) The New York Times 2016-10-25 Trevor Noah Trevor Noah, at 3 years old, with his mother. Trevor Noah is the host of \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d and the author of \u201cBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood\u201d (Spiegel & Grau). This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,395,8,520],"tags":[2640,2327,15219],"class_list":["post-49665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49675,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665\/revisions\/49675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}