Life and Liberty: The Foundations to Family
The ability to love is universal. We are all free to love who we want without any consequence right? Wrong. In many places in the world, love is free, but only for some, and just as long it falls under the rules and regulations. This basically means that love is not free, but imprisoned. We tend to laugh at all the cliches about love and life, we take it for granted, but there are many communities in the world who are not given the right to love and be with who they want. Apartheid in South Africa hasn’t been completely wiped away, traces of its cruelty can still be found the in laws and the actions of South African society. In Trevor Noah: Born A Crime, the right to Marriage, Article 16 of the Human Rights Declaration, was compromised. Trevor retells the story of his mother and her relationships, most notably her and Robert, Trevor’s father. His parents could never be together because South African laws prohibited mixed races to be married and have a child. He describes his parents’...
