Americans React To Tyla Speaking On Being COLOURED 🇿🇦 (Breakfast Club Interview) South Africa 

oohh I see, thank you for the info 🙏

Also, I think people don't understand it's an official classification by the South African government. That's literally how we are classified. On any form here in South Africa, if you get to the section about race/ethnicity, you will see the word " coloured" there and you must tick that box. But coloured is basically like a creole identity and you will find alot of people with mix heritage in Africa,but especially in the island countries that form part of Africa in places like Mauritius,Seychelles and even Angola.

​@@ShaunTayabaReacts guys y'all are familiar with our national rugby team, the Springboks. Now, Tyla are the same race as me, Cheslin Kolbe, Kurt-lee Arendse, Canan Moodie, Edwill van der Merwe, Immanuel Libbok, Damian Willemse etc. Our captain, Siya Kolisi is black. You see, she never cared to dive deeper into her lineage so to speak and she never cared to know the history of black Americans. Coloured in South Africa ain't mixed raced. Trevor Noah aren't coloured, he's mixed raced. Before the European dutch settlers arrived in what is today known as the Cape/Cape Town, there were tribes, most notably, the Khois & the Sans. In what is today known as the Northern Cape, were the Nama & Damara tribes. They had their own languages, just like the Xhosa tribes etc. They are all black. But the Nama people also known as the Eland , were very light skin people. Now, the dutch people arrived in the Cape in the middle 1600's and interacted with the Khois & Sans. Idk if it were the dutch or the British people who brought Malaysians with em to the Cape as slaves but Malaysians were brought here. As time went by, the dutch with the Khois & Sans & Malaysians & Namas & Damaras formed the language called Afrikaans. And they spoke that language as their first tongue. While the other black tribes stuck to their own ethnic languages. When the Brits declared that the war was over in the early 1900's, everything went on as normal. But then the white Afrikaners (dutch settlers) formed a political party called the National Party and they brought in the racial classifications. The Nama, Khois, Sans, Damaras (tho black) and Malaysians were called coloured because the majority of em didn't speak their ethnic languages as a first language anymore. Afrikaans were their language, like the Boers. While the other black people still spoke their different ethnic languages like Xhosa, Zulu etc, so, they were called black. So, coloured people made up of black ethnicities, Nama, Khoi, San, Damara & even Bantu were called coloured because they spoke Afrikaans and no longer their ethnic languages just like the Malaysians who also speak Afrikaans. That's how we came about. Now we can say that we are mixed with Malaysians but not all of us are. Since then in order to be coloured, both parents must be coloured, since it's a race. To be black, your mother tongue ain't Afrikaans but your ethnic language. It's so difficult to explain and i can't simplify it any more than this. Also our languages aren't recognized as official languages because the majority, 98% of coloureds speak Afrikaans, it's our home language. The black people's languages are recognized as official languages because they preserved it by not choosing to speak the language of the oppressor. Trevor Noah was born in apartheid, and during that time, coloured were already an established race, hench why he ain't coloured but mixed race. In old America I believe he would've been called "colored" but today just black! As a coloured, I can't deem a black American, yes black American, not African American as a black person because they don't speak an indigenous African language as their first tongue. But, I won't make that an issue, I'll just see em as another person but I know we the same. Our races are: white, black, coloured & Asian. Coloured is a race in South Africa, not mixed race people.

​@@thegreytoneI agree with most of what you said but don't hide from the fact that the coloreds benefited from what the "oppressor" did. Oppressed with food, oppressed with shelter, oppressed with clothes and jobs. This is why Coloureds believe that life was much better in the country under their "oppressors". Coloreds were always given preferential treatment by the Afrikaaners compared to the blacks, and were often regarded as being intellectually superior to their black counterparts, and quite possibly to the Asians as well. Why? Because the colored were part Afrikaaner and share the same culture that is why. This is also why not only the Portuguese man, the Lebanese man, the Greek man, the predominant Afrikaaner and British man ALONG with the Coloured man are discriminated against within the current employment market within the country.

@@travisberthold9659 perhaps, my mother stems from Khoi (black) with a little Malay on her side, she's dark in complexion, she was born when coloured were already an established race. My father is Nama (black) with a little Griqua (mixture of black & white) on his side & he's pale in skin colour, also born during apartheid when coloured were already an established race. I'm coloured because both my parents are coloureds and I'm light brown whilst my sister from these same parents is pale. My mother said she felt apartheid, my dad says not so much, because he looked just like the oppressors. But that's none of my concern, I were born free. Yes, black people in South Africa are the pinnacle now and I'm happy 4 em!! I just go with the flow of the status quo.

oohh I see, that’s dope! 🙏

facts tho!

Black American not felling Tyla ANYMORE..an she really not that great singer..it's not like she a Mary J or Whitney..she sing popcorn spice girl music..she gonna be a one hit wonder..she just eye candy...that's it ..SORRY

​@voncal5171 umm..she makes pop music with an african influence. Just like afrobeats wasn't made specifically for black americans.

much love bro, thank you! and ahh I see, haha I guess the whole world needs to learn a little more 🙏

facts

wooow 🇿🇦 that makes sense!

Griqua are descendants of black people my darling I’m sorry to break it to you lol. They exist because of the mixing between Khoikhoi (who are black) and the Dutch. So you have black ancestors.

All races began from blacks. We are all originally originated from black people.

Griqua are black (Khois) and white. But I get u, like me, my ancestors are black, Nama & Khoi with a little Malay.

​@@ekg891 Khoikhoi people is African, born from African soil, that's what they identify as and don't identify as Black people. Black was a racial classification for descendants of Bantu lineage, which are completely different to the phenotype and cultures of the Khoikhoi tribes all of which are Africans

​@@thegreytoneYou seem to be mixing up being Black and being African. Khoisan is only African people, Black is a racial classification given to people of Bantu lineage, unless Bantu heritage as well

What I'm saying is we don't give a shit what black Americans think or feel or say

Coloureds can be whiter than South African whites or more black than black South Africans, but only speak Afrikaans and English, we are the rainbow people 😂

We as coloureds tho we have black ancestry, speak Afrikaans as first language hench why we were called coloured and the other black ethnicities who preserved their ethnic languages were called black. If, the Khois, Sans, Namas & Damaras didn't take on Afrikaans then we would've still been considered as black.

She is starting to gain respect for standing on her truth and the projection of American colourism is raising eyebrows in a very negative way. Tyla is iconic. She is here to stay.

yessir!! 💪

Big facts 🙌🏽

ah thank you for the explanation 🙏 makes a lot more sense to me now, and you’re right!!

We dont hate ya'll. But it is a weird racial classification in amerikkka considering the history of that term in the U.S.

@@cindyqueen7228 South Africa and US are different countries tho. The americans want to know how Tyla identifies herself and obviously as a South African she's gonna classify herself how they do back home. It might be a weird racial term in america but its the norm in south africa

@@cindyqueen7228 I'm sorry to hear that. But the World doesnt revolve around America.

that’s dope 🙏❤️

Exactly, but some coloureds are pure black, Nama & Khoi for instance, but they speak Afrikaans as their first tongue.

And because of the various ethnicities, and that our ancestors spoke Afrikaans, the NP government classified us as coloured, beginning an official race in the Republiek van Zuid-Afrika.

It's a South African coloured issue. It's not even for black Americans to be discussing either.

It's not a black issue but a coloured that's multiracialy mixed issue

Why you a hater though.... 😒

This video is spreading positivity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Don’t be racist here

Wtf😂 they don’t even look Chinese what are you talking about?😭

@noxxxx2141 this guy is just being a hater ..... he should just delete this comment

Hater