WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A COLORED PERSON IN SOUTH AFRICA | EP111 PART 2 FT  

It's not just about the terminology itself, I'm a colored person from South Africa and this a real culture, being a colored person means that you are of multi ethnicities... no two colored people have exactly the same blend. In Tyla's case the region she comes from is Indian and Zulu dominated so you can imagine she's not the same colored as a person from Cape Town or myself from Johannesburg it's not just being black some coloreds like Trevor Noah and Shane Eagle are whiter than they are black so it's much more complex than just leaving the country and suddenly you're black

We know what the term "Coloured" means in America. We're not dumb. We grew up identifying with the innercity/American/African-American culture, since the 40's- after the Depression when radio and television exploded in Southern Africa. And this isn't America. It means something else in SA/Namibia/Zimbabwe/Botswana. It's a specific group of people of mixed heritage, * with a distinct culture * . I'm sure you're also now well aware of that. We were united through our diversity- united because we were shunned by both black and white. United because we were outcasts. "Culture" is the point of contention, since within our communities, there is no "black" and "white" although we span the colour spectrum- even amongst siblings. (I'm light-skinned, fair-haired, while two of my siblings are light-brown and dark-brown- yet with the same parents- so much genetic diversity have we got) Our culture is different to the rest of our indigenous brethren. Our culture is a mixture of Christian/Muslim/African/Asian/European cultures, with a Christian-influenced culture being the most dominant. This has been so, since inception- prior to the 20th century. We also congregated/lived, during those times, in separate colonies/towns. We were a separate group of people, united by our mixed heritage and our vocation prior to the 20th century was mostly technical and mechanical(mechanists, repairers, gunsmiths, wagonsmiths etc..). So, we sold our services along those lines. We were the original "Afrikaners", before the word was stolen from us by the whites. It's also becoming accepted that we were also most likely the orginators of the Afrikaans-language (hence the word "Afrikaner" that we identified with) The history of the two places is different, you see. In the US, black folk had to stick together and there was such a thing as the one-drop-rule. Over here, black people were the majority and amongst ourselves, we are still very tribalistic, so this is party also what lead to all this. You see, we are a mixture of many different races/cultures- Indian, Khoi-San, Malay, Xhosa, British, Zulu, Damara, Nama, British, Otji-Herero, German, Oshiwambo, Scottish, French, Italian, Portguese, Spanish, etc... We're classed by geneticists as the most genetically-diverse group of people in the world. Outside of Southern Africa, although I'm European in appearance, I identify as black- even though it confuses people sometimes when they see a "white man" who says he's black- but that's the reality, so does Trevor, Tyla, Frank Fredericks, Cheslin Kolbe, Benni McCarthy, Wayde Van Niekerk, Lesley-Ann Brandt, etc... Others of my brethren and sistas who are mainly of Indian/Malay heritage will identify as Indian, etc..; but within Southern Africa, we're "Coloured" - an official racial designation- adopted and continued by the new South African government, from the minority White South African governments before it. (we had no say in it - no choice)

@@marceljegels6029Trevor Noah is not coloured, he is mixed race and identifies as Xhosa. Having black and white parents doesn’t make you coloured… It is a distinct cultural and racial group, spanning generations.

Just like having black and Indian parents doesn’t make one “coloured”. Having coloured and black parents makes you mixed race.

Tyla did explain in her 2 interviews, the one was on a radio interview n online magazine from last year and people were still stubborn to understand and the was a backlash.. So she is tired of this question, that's why she released a statement for people to read. From late 2022 some people never want to understand they just want to use her name on social media to make cash via views

@@lebo3793 😂 believe half of what you see and none of what you hear

@@IMOPODCAST touche. Let me not spoil your hustle. I will edit 🙌🏽

Yeah. He's uinformed. Amapiano is the most popular music across all of Southern Africa - even here in Namibia. We all listen to it, Coloured, Black, Indian even some whites.

Dude, it seems lyk they never stayed in South Africa with Amapiano not being commecial