Racism Thesis, based off Cry, the Beloved Country

There are many contradicting instances of racism that happen throughout the entire book of Cry the Beloved Country.  It appears that there is not a single group of people that are "racist" or "not racist", and this discovery makes how we acted towards blacks all the more heinous.  At first I thought, its generational...meaning the old white men running everything were the racist ones, and the young people weren't.  Yet the Jarvis's niece was incredibly racist, and her old relative Jarvis was more accepting.  That also meant it was not familial either as Arthur, and James  had no effect on their racist relative.  So really their are no excuses for ones racism, it was not how they were raised (familial) and it is not the world they grew up in (generational), ones racism must truly depend on the individual, which tells us all the more how terrible we individuals really are.  

Final Thoughts on The Book

Cry the Beloved Country takes a unique approach on representing modern south african history.  Unlike some movies which give the audience a first hand experience of what it was like to live under such an oppressive regime, Cry, the Beloved Country speaks very generally for the problems that started apartheid and how we could have fixed them.  The way he portrays this puts a lot of emphasis on family which was a major contribution to south Africa at the time.  He talks about, through Arthur Jarvis, how family is the roots for the blacks, and since the indirectly government stripped that away, they are the cause for the mayhem.  One way to fiz all of this would be to restore  the land so families would not break apart. A sentence to summarize the novel would be: the tribe is broken, restore the land to save the tribe