I have been so ready for this kind of thing! thank you! yesss!

Love it! Looking forward to watching more of this series.You go girls xxx

Just recently I started feeling an unease of how I didn't know my ancestry lineages. What legacy will I leave my descendants if I don't know where I come from? I now hate the term coloured that was given to us by colonialism / white supremacists , passed down by my forefathers who became ashamed of their history and ashamed of their ancestors who took pride in our tribes and tried to keep our heritage and culture sacred. My research is minimal, but I know for sure now, that I'm a decedent of the Griqua tribe, one of many tribes in Africa... this ancestry runs deep in my veins and those who came before me for thousands of years. We have lost who we are because we didn't want to be classified as black, as if, it is a dirty thing! But yet it is evident that black/dark brown is a part of me in the melanin that exposes the brown skin woman I am. I am proud to be a descendant of a black South African tribe called Griqua but I am ashamed that I know nothing about this tribe like a decendant should know. All because the British and Dutch decided to colonies, sophisticate and force their ways onto our people. We are now called a rape culture, uneducated, bastards, illiterate amongst other things. I will not accept this fate and will teach my sons, daughters, mothers, fathers about my people, our people. That once upon a time there were people of Colour that lived in harmony, respected each other's territories, lived and loved with nature and appreciated what it provided our eye, ears and bodies. I pray that one day we will find our way again

Eloise Maurice a very good friend and a person you must not miss getting to know better I love her dearly thank you for making me part of this

To the Creators of "Coloured Mentality" could you please provide me with an e-mail address so that I can forward you our document which you will find very eye opening to the entire "coloured" debacle. Kindly anticipating your response.

@chantejodykaylansebastian5420

4 жыл бұрын

Can you please inbox me as well. It would be much appreciated.

Never have i thought id ever comment on a yotube video before watching it. I've been struggling with this issue growing up and everyone always disregarded my thoughts around this matter. I cannot even pinpoint what my family tree is like coz nobody saw the significance of keeping track where my predecessors stem from. I have had this identity issue since i can remember im suppose to have some form of heritage as an individual. Ima lways told to find my identity in Christ and I've done so, but i still feel like i have so many missing puzzle pieces. I admire the black consciousness movement because black people have identified their differences from white persons by trending their own uniqueness. I have followed so many 'trends' all my life from outside westernised influences i never had things to clutch to without people saying this and that is culture appropriation. In America black is vlack and white is white. Not to distinguish people from one another in a bad sense but for the purposes of finding true individual identity. In Cape Town, South Africa, im told no im not black im a wishy washy version-a faded version of two distinct race groups so bleached out i dont even know where i stand as an "other" or a "coloured". It's an internal struggle-arent so many other races biracial/mixed? So what am I? Or will you also judge me and tell me im being petty and sentimental?___ off to watch this video, God bless and you do not have to feel stirred by what I said or take offense... This is my own dilemma-i just had to voice it for myself on a different platform where i know i won't be crucified for it.

@chantejodykaylansebastian5420

4 жыл бұрын

Oh n i forgot to add.. I just roamed the internet about hadesha ethiopian hairstyles... I am so fascinated with cultures around me, but nobody modelled what a coloured woman should find pride in... How she should dress... How she should do her hair.... The dishes she should learn to prepare... These are things i, as a young coloured women find important. Not everything we do revolve around falling pregnant before 18; being involved in destructive relationships; jollin; being uneducated and fighting like a "straat meit"...