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This Coloured Identity in South Africa is really a "mess" (video)

Posted by theone on 2/1/2025, 6:13 am

LOL, these two south african women in the video under would be considered "Black" all over the world including Morocco and Senegal, well, except in South Africa. But Julius Malema and most of South Africa's Black tribes see the coloured community as "Black".

Re: Coloured in South Africa is really a "mess"

Posted by Les on 3/5/2025, 5:49 am, in reply to "This Coloured Identity in South Africa is really a "mess" (video)"

Yes, it's indicative of how the colonizers have a culture where they insinuate this identity politics into people's lives before they're born. And subsequently individuals have to learn to navigate this contrived framing.

The colonizer is sick.

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Re: Coloured in South Africa is really a "mess"

Posted by gm on 3/5/2025, 11:21 am, in reply to "Re: Coloured in South Africa is really a "mess" "

It's fallout from global colonization..
It's part of the mental illness we all (Black folks) have inherited from that system..
Not just in South Africa: before the Black Consciousness & Black is Beautiful movement spread from AfricanAmericans to the islands, light-skin folks were highly insulted if you called them black, and even worse if you referred to them as African; Particularly in Haiti & Jamaica.

LOL.. after apartheid came down and the ANC took over, lots of "coloreds" started identifying as black to take advantage of Affirmative Action & some land redistribution programs. Opportunistic bastards!

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