Why the Coloured Debate Proves Americans Don't Understand South Africa

[00:00:01]All right, guys. So, this is uh we're going to make this a quick video. Um, so you guys know I've been doing a few videos in the color community here um in Durban, South Africa. Um, and I just been showing love to the community and uh, we've been getting a lot of positive feedback, but it's been a big controversial with the term colored uh, with South Africans. Uh, well, mostly Americans and United States and South Africans. For those of you that don't know, colored is mixed race. Basically, it's mixed race. There's colored people everywhere in thei everywhere in the world. Mostly everywhere in the world.

[00:00:40]There's colored people in the United States, mixed race. Uh creole people are mixed race. Um there's people, you know, everywhere that's mixed race. Coloreds are like a race of people that lives in different communities throughout South Africa. They were segregated with the, you know, obviously the white South Africans, the black South Africans, the Indians, and then you have the colors.

[00:01:03]And then you have a small population, I think in Cape Town, the Cape Malay people. But that's that's what what colors are. But colorards is really like a community of people that are generations of mixed race that live in a in one area in a neighborhood in a community and it goes on and on and on.

[00:01:22]>> Don't like colors or why they use So I'm showing you what what color people look like.

[00:01:28]>> Color people are beautiful.

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[00:01:39]>> People rock.

[00:01:45]>> That's what they were called by the colonizers, right? Um they were called colors. But a lot of people from especially from the United States get offended by the word. And the reason why I get it and the reason why they get offended by the word is because the word is is a term of slavery is a term of it's a derogatory word. But we got to understand people in United States needs to understand colored is not the same as United States as it is in South Africa.

[00:02:16]Okay. Um colored means mixed race. In United States it does not mean mixed race. It's totally different. It's totally separate and totally different. And this is the problem. So, I've been getting a lot of messages. We've been getting a lot of mixed messages uh with the term. For example, let me see if I could show you.

[00:02:36]All right. Colored is a word that's widely considered inappropriate, offensive, and outdated. It's expressive, segregational, and offensive word. And I'm glad that it's no longer used in the West. Now, the way it was used in the West is completely different than the way it's used in South Africa.

[00:02:55]So, we got tons of these messages that I've been getting. I can't respond to all of them. So, I said, you know, let me make a video about it just to give my take on it. Um, the people who consider themselves colored and act as they are exclusive people in different culture from black people are sick. There are tons of families in the US that look like them and they know they're black.

[00:03:17]their culture is black no matter the skin type.

[00:03:21]So these are the type of messages that we're getting that I'm getting and I got a lot of good messages also. Um there's good messages, bad messages, but you know there's people that still confuse with the term. You know, there's people still confused with the term and that's the problem that I have. People get offended when they hear the word colored in United States. Um, colored is a term that's it's not widely known. Like people there's people in the United States that still don't know that they have a group. They have a community.

[00:03:52]They have people they have Indians. They have white South Africans, black South Africans, which is Zulu, Kulsa, and um different tribes. And then you have colored, right? There's people in South A in the United States and not just United States, other places that don't know this. So when they hear a term, they don't understand. But I'm going, you know, I have to call a spade a spade. And yes, I live in I'm from United States. Uh, you know, like people might get offended when I say this, okay? Um, but I have to I I I I have to speak the truth. I have to like really This is how I feel. This is my opinion. Whether you're offended or not, it's the truth. Okay. Um, that's that's what it is. It's the truth. This is my issue and I said it on one of my videos, but the a volume was was I had volume issues because we had copyright music.

[00:04:48]So some of the some of the things I was saying didn't get was not in the video due to copyright.

[00:04:54]>> Yeah. It's just a misunderstanding cuz in America back in the days when they was slave >> Yeah. with the term >> they called colored. Yeah.

[00:05:02]>> So in America when we hear colored for in the United States it's offensive because slave. Yeah, you know >> I love my >> but over here it's different.

[00:05:14]>> No, it's not it's not offensive over here. It's part of >> but I was saying that hey it's a big misunderstanding in the United States due to slavery. People don't want to hear the word color. My issue that I have right this is my issue that I have.

[00:05:31]We I'm going say we because I'm from United States. We as people from United States, we get offended. They get offended. I don't get offended. People from the United States get offended from South Africans using the word the term colored because, oh, it was brought by the colonizers. You shouldn't use that term. Um, it was brought by the colonizers. But in the same token, we use the word ninja. Ni ga. So, like if we're so serious about this and we're like uh serious about using these words and these terms like the way these people are commenting on my videos, why are we not banning the n-word from rap music? Why we're not getting together and saying, "Hey, we don't want to nobody use these words on rap music no more because it's offensive. It's an offensive word. It it it relates to slavery, so we don't want to use it no more. Anybody who makes a rap song, we're gonna stop ban them from uh make putting these this word in rap music.

[00:06:30]While we're not talking about that and we're talking about a group of people that call theel colored, which has which we're our word is a lot more offensive.

[00:06:38]>> He's right. You know, >> you understand what I'm saying? Like, so I don't I don't get it, man. I mean, some of y'all might agree, some of y'all might disagree. I really want to know what you guys think. I want to know what your thoughts about this. I'm I'm genuinely curious. I just want to know what's the what's the response? What's what's the what's what's the response to what I'm actually saying? Am I wrong? Am I right? Am I in between? In the United States, the word [ __ ] is more offensive than any word you can use. What did we do? What did people in United States did, right? We adapted the word, we took the word and made the word uh uh worldwide. Do you know there's people all over the world that use that term? I'm in Colombia. I'm in uh DR. I'm in uh uh Costa Rica. And you'll meet some 13, 14 year old coming up to you tomorrow. Yo, what's up, my [ __ ] Hey, hey, hey. And they feel it's cool because we have it in rap music. You understand what I'm saying? So, we took a word that's the most offensive word and we made it cool by adding a a at the end. So, if you say e r, it's offensive.

[00:07:54]If you say ni ga, it's not offensive.

[00:07:56]Like, we have it all over rap songs.

[00:07:59]It's all over rap music. It's in any damn day every rap song you listen to, they say the n word.

[00:08:05]>> You have a lot of a lot of songs where you you say the n word in your music and you perform sometimes where there's a large white audience. Right.

[00:08:11]>> Right. So, I'm going to assume that as you're performing to these white audiences that certain people in the crowd are singing along to your songs and saying all the words including the nword sometimes, right?

[00:08:18]>> How does that make you feel?

[00:08:19]>> How do I feel about it?

[00:08:20]>> Yeah. Is that why you do it though?

[00:08:22]>> I feel like they're fans.

[00:08:23]>> Okay.

[00:08:23]>> I feel like they're fans. You know, uh they're not coming saying [ __ ] you know, like I feel like they're fans.

[00:08:27]They're [ __ ] ass [ __ ] take this song out like they're fans, bro. Like, you know, they're singing they're singing their music. It's a different type of way in a conversation that's different from a fan.

[00:08:34]>> I mean, there's a song called by what?

[00:08:36]Trinidad James. Don't believe me, just watch. [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] don't bleep.

[00:08:40]And a white person can recite a song completely, can can recite a whole song, right? The whole lyrics, but when the n-word is said, they have to be quiet.

[00:08:49]They can't say that word. It's like they could be don't believe me, just watch.

[00:08:54]Don't believe me, just they can't say the N word, right? Like, I just think that's so silly. The first I think you know one of the groups that really made this term I mean this word was used way before them but in rap the one of the groups that really made this more explosive was NWA which is [ __ ] with attitude right if we're so concerned about words from colonizers being offensive why no why we didn't get together and ban the word and say hey we're not going to put these words in music we're not going to put these words in our songs because this word is offensive right now. But when people in South Africa use it that it doesn't it's totally different than United States. We're offended by it. It's like we're throwing rocks behind but we live in a glass house. We have our own problem in United States but we're worried about people inside. I mean it's going to be people that's probably going to unsubscribe to my channel by me saying this. I don't care. I'm just speaking the truth. I'm speaking facts regardless. But I just feel like how you gonna how are we going to talk about South Africans when we have a word that's more offensive that we use worldwide. We made it we made it worldwide known anywhere in the world you know go to they know the word South Africa there's people outside of South Africa don't that don't even know the word color. It's not in rap songs. It's not you know what I'm saying? So, like I I just feel like man, why would this is something that we should work on? If you don't want South Africans to use the word color, we shouldn't be use the word the n-word. The n-word is Okay, let's go. Um, what does it say? The n-word originated through a long linguistic evolution from the words that originally meant black in several European languages. Right.

[00:10:45]During the era of European exploration, the Atlantic slave trade, coloniz colonization, English speakers adopted and altered these terms. Over time, especially in the United States, the word became associated with the enslavement and racial expression of people of African descent. By 19th by the 19th and 20th century, it had developed into a highly derogatory racial slur used to demean and dehumanize black people. Today, it's widely regarded as one of the most offensive words in English. While some black communities have reappropriated and variated the word in certain social and cultural context, it is used it use remain highly insensitive and controversial. It is generally inappropriate for people outside those context to use it.

[00:11:38]Like we took a word that's highly offensive and made it cool. We put it in rap song. It's cool to say it. And like I said, anywhere in the world you go, people know that word, right? But we're offensive when people in South Africa call themselves colored because of what we went through. I think the n-word is a little bit more offensive than the color word. I'm just saying. like like in back in those days if you if you call the black person the n-word and you call the black person um colored I think the n word was more offensive. You know what I'm saying? So this this like I just find it so strange and weird that we that people like I'm getting these messages and you know so many people are talking about it and it's people in the comment section that's speaking on this and and I'm just like saying to myself, I get it. I do. I truly get it. But we have our own problems. Why did we make a word that's super offensive really cool to say? And as crazy as it sounds, if you put a a at the end is cool, but if you put a eer at the end, IT'S NOT COOL.

[00:12:47]LIKE THAT'S SOME dumb [ __ ] to me. Like I'm sorry. Like bro, like whoever thought of that. Like bro, like come on, man. Like we got to get together. I think this is ridiculous. since there's still in American army uniforms just >> it was said without thinking painting an entire race with a single word but it wasn't always a slur originally the Latin ni ger just meant black >> cockadoodle >> but at the dawn of America n i g er became neg to describe some of the first shipments of African slaves >> I mean that's my take on it I know it's going to be people that's the thing about content doing content man people will unsubscribe to you just because you are giving your own opinion. That's why I try not to get in politics because when you get into politics, you mention something that people don't agree with, they want to unsubscribe. I had it happen in the past. But I had to speak on this because I feel like I'm doing so many of these colored neighborhoods that I'm I'm like, yo, people keep saying, "Don't use that word. It's offensive.

[00:13:50]Don't call yourself that." But we call ourselves ninjas.

[00:13:54]And it's all over music and it's all over the world. There's, like I said, you go to Colombia, certain places, there'll be 13, 12, 14 year old kids that are like coming up shaking your hand saying using the word. It's all it's it's worldwide. I'm like really dumbfounded by it, man. And I want to know what y'all take on it, man. What y'all think? What are y'all ideas on this? Do you think I'm right? Do you think I'm wrong? Do you think, "Oh, check. It don't matter. The word is cool and it don't matter if it if it was uh meant for slaves. A colored is more offensive to us and we don't care."

[00:14:26]Like, what do y'all think? What's your thoughts?

[00:14:30]>> Not necessarily how they look, how they live.

[00:14:33]>> Yeah. So, >> tasting some nice.

[00:14:35]>> This is This is This is my friend Chick from from Miami.

[00:14:38]>> He's a content creator.

[00:14:40]>> Okay. So, dog. Look, he Hey, he giving me a hug while he's still drinking. Hey, >> how you doing?

[00:14:51]>> Oh, damn. You a grown man, bro.

[00:14:53]>> Oh, you want to be on camera? Come stand this way so he can see. I >> thought he was like 21 or something. No.

[00:15:00]>> There's my son.

[00:15:01]>> That boy look like a grown man.

[00:15:02]>> That's my son.

[00:15:04]>> All right.

[00:15:04]>> Hello. Nice to meet you.

[00:15:06]>> Dy nippy.

[00:15:08]>> Now you see you can see the variations of colors. Like if you look at her.

[00:15:13]>> Let the ladies stay here on this side so we can get their beautiful side.

[00:15:16]>> Full for get the sun. There's also got a t-shirt.

[00:15:19]>> All right. Go ahead.

[00:15:20]>> All right. As I was saying earlier on about the variations of different colors, like if you look at her and then if you look at her, yes, they're both colors, but >> on her side, she got more resemblance of the Zulos.

[00:15:34]>> Yeah.

[00:15:35]>> Because in her family, there is that element of Zulus being there.

[00:15:41]>> It's evidence. You can see it in the features >> and her.

[00:15:45]>> If you look at her, you think she's Indian.

[00:15:48]>> Yeah.

[00:15:48]>> You can see that.

[00:15:49]>> Yeah. Yeah, she looks Indian.

[00:15:51]>> Exactly. She got the Indian with the hair, long hair and everything.

[00:15:55]>> So that is why we are big mixed masala big pot.

[00:15:58]>> Mix masala.

[00:16:00]>> She looks in with the colored culture.

[00:16:03]Color is colors are just a mixed race of everything.

[00:16:06]>> Right. Right.

[00:16:07]>> So you have no Yeah. And I'm also mixed with black. My granny is a black witches. Hence I can speak Zulu. My granny's >> a little bit. She's calling me.

[00:16:21]you could find.

[00:16:28]>> Okay.

[00:16:38]>> What happened?

[00:16:39]>> I ignored that. But I was drunk.

[00:16:42]>> Hey, you know what? I like a man that that's honest.

[00:16:45]>> He didn't make up no excuse. He just He just kept it real. I was drunk. That's it.

[00:16:49]>> From the moment I arrived, people welcomed me with open arms. Complete strangers invited me into their world, shared their stories, introduced me to their culture, and showed me a side of South Africa that most tourists never get to see.

[00:17:06]>> Thank you, brother. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. Thank you for letting me um come into the community and show love.

[00:17:12]>> You are the man. We want to show everybody that in this video we're walking the streets, meeting the locals, trying the food, hanging out in the game room, and learning what life is really like inside one of South Africa's most unique communities. What I started as a simple visit quickly turned into something much more personal. This is my day inside South Africa's colored community.

[00:17:39]>> Wednesday, I was out all day and And I felt like, you know, this is something for the world to see.