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We are because of them – Part 2 of 5
A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen Share this post: Share this post with the world.
Racial Classification
How do you tell whether a light-skinned baby is black or coloured? You leave him on a table and see if he turns blue. No, this is not a bad joke it is just one of the barbaric methods used to classify South African citizens during the apartheid years. This, and other equally unpalatable [...]
We are because of them – Part 1 0f 5
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Mixed Race Ethnicity
‘I won’t victimise myself…it’s just part of growing up.’ US singer Amerie recently spoke to Sixshot.com about her mixed racial background. Amerie was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to an African-American father and a Korean mother. Her father was in the United States military and this enabled Amerie to travel to and live in many different [...]
Between two worlds
Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected. During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis ‘should be left to rot in their adopted country, with [...]
Modern Identity Is Not All Black Or White
Where Harlesden had been black, Oxford was white. I went from being the only white kid on the team to the only black kid on the team. Are you black, brother? Growing up, I just was. My mum was white and my dad was brown. My mum’s relatives lived here, and the old ones had [...]
The Coloureds of Southern Africa
The various Coloured communities in southern Africa developed out by events of the Dutch colonization of South Africa. In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route to the Far [...]
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We are the World
Another year has come and gone, yet we are no step closer to the ‘I have a dream’ reverence worded by Martin Luther King. It seems that our fears are holding us hostage to the beauty that ebbs and leaps inside and sadly the voices of our ancestors have been forgotten in the ebonics of [...]
Egyptians were coloureds!
MYTH: Egyptians were white This is the longest myth ever in existence, which is pedaled as true scholarship and truth. Yet it is an outright myth, deliberately created from 1830 onwards, to explain away Egyptian civilization. During the 1800′s there was all kinds of pseudo-sciences floating around about the genetical and inherent inferiority of peoples [...]