At different points in time, the human race has both evolved and devolved as a society. Within a hundred years, just in the United States, theres been war, peace, and slavery. It was at the time in which the battle against segregation was coming to a head that Breyten Bretenbach came to be known. When Breytenbach struck at the clenching claws of the supremacists whose, “”peace” in the white mouth demands maintaining a strict order by law, protecting the status quo, everybody “knowing his place,”” he stood up to institutionalized racism through writing (106). Breytenbach was born in 1939 and spent time as a political prisoner because of his campaign to speak out against segregation in South Africa. While he himself is Caucasian, he took special care to not be presumptuous or take other’s adversity as his own when he wrote.
