Black Americans are so obsessed with colored south Africans why?

[00:00:00]Hey you guys, I just thought let me respond to this comment right here.

[00:00:03]I've been getting so much backlash, hateful comments on my Coloured Swirlkos video from all these American people. Now, I thought let me respond to let you guys >> So, you know how the Americans are going crazy about the fact that Tyla's Coloured and they just don't understand that term in the South African context, right? That whole situation just reminds me how too my core, I believe that even South Africans don't really understand who Coloured people are, where we came from.

[00:00:32]>> I think >> I actually think we need to be careful with comments like this because one thing about us Coloured people, we love turning everything into an us versus them conversation.

[00:00:40]I haven't seen black South Africans hating on Tyla for this. If anything, most people seems proud. And I think we should be able to celebrate how good representation feels without immediately expecting conflict. Because the truth is black and Coloured communities have a way more >> Everyone, how are you guys doing? So, in this video, we talk about the Coloured Coloured South Africans. So, we see a lot of people, they feel like when they say South Africans are Coloured or they have a Coloured community in South Africa, they feel like they are being racist. They don't want to identify themselves with blacks. So, to be honest, is this lady Coloured? Of course, she's Coloured according to South Africa. Same like in America, we do have the Beyoncé, the Rihanna, they don't call themselves Coloured in America. Those ones, they call them the black Americans. But, it differs. In another person's country, Coloured could be racist. In another person's country, it's a community of people. So, we don't see why people always like to use this Coloured word as um to South Africans as an insult. Guys, because it doesn't make sense. Coloured is not an insult to South Africans. That's why Tyla was dragged last time when she mentioned she was Coloured. Black Americans were dragging her, calling her racist, calling her she doesn't like her skin, so on and so forth. The fact that she said she's colored, it doesn't mean Stylist a racist girl. Stylist colored according to South Africans come and race community. Anyway guys, I'm new on this channel. If you subscribe, if you haven't, please don't forget to subscribe, like, and drop a comment. Let me know what you think in the comment section. Take a look and watch the complete video. Do let me know what you think. As you know, my fellow American people, this video was not meant for you. I didn't ask for the video to go viral like that, but I was speaking to my fellow South African people. We understand the term colored people here in South Africa because in South Africa, you find white people, black people, Asian people, and then you find colored people like myself. I'm proud I'm a proud colored. And um I was speaking to my fellow South African colored people because that's how we celebrate our hair. Now, you guys just come onto my video and comment whatever the hell you want to comment just because you don't educate yourself about what's happening in South Africa or what cultures we have in South Africa, thinking that the world only revolves around the US and the UK. Why don't you go and educate yourself? And I really hope that all you American people see this video and understand that in South Africa, we have colored people. It's an actual tribe here. It is an actual race, and I'm a proud colored.

[00:03:16]>> The extent of people's knowledge on colored people is that okay, we're an ethnic group to South Africa, and we are racial group. And that's it.

[00:03:23]>> [laughter] >> Because the thing is people in school used to come up to me and ask me, "Okay, so is your dad black and your mom white or is it the other way around?" I'm like, But Mhm.

[00:03:32]But you actually can't even blame them for being confused or not knowing.

[00:03:36]Yeah, you can't blame them for not knowing because at no stage are you ever taught about colors and where we came from and how we came to be. You learn so much of South African history, but we are never involved in it. So, the only way you learn about colored people is through colored people, which is very crazy. I don't like it actually now that I think about it.

[00:03:53]>> The craziest part about this is that colored in South Africa and black in America are the most similar to all the pan-African identities. Colored people are an amalgamation of different races and ethnicities. The same as black Americans. We used to be called colored, too. I think that's what a lot of people forget, that black people were colored at once, too. Except the switch just never made it to South Africa. But black in America and colored in South Africa is the exact same thing. There is no such thing as a mono-racial black person in America. The average black person has 12% European DNA. A lot of us have Native American. So, there is no such thing as a mono-racial black person. We're an amalgamation of 1,200 ethnicities. So, in America, a colored person would be black. He's probably not black in Africa because black people in Africa have mono-ethnic, mono-racial identities, but that is not true here.

[00:04:49]So, I hate when black people from Africa come over here and be like, "Why do y'all call y'all mixed-race people black?" Because they're black by American standards. This ain't Africa, boo. We know who our people are. All of our people are American descendants of slaves, period. If they're descendants of slaves, they're black. That's There's no There's no [ __ ] questioning that.

[00:05:06]AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO [ __ ] CHANGE it just cuz a bunch of [ __ ] people are coming over here. That ain't us. We can't go to Africa and change what it means to be black and colored. SO, WHY THE [ __ ] DO Y'ALL THINK Y'ALL COULD COME HERE AND CHANGE IT? ANYWAYS, black and colored same thing. Same thing in America.

[00:05:22]>> common thing most people would like to admit. We've grown up in the same or similar neighborhoods. We've gone to the same schools. We've shared the same struggles. So, when I say hearing a colored accent in a space as big as Toy Story makes me emotional, it's not an attack on anybody else. It's just me appreciating a moment I never thought I'd see. And honestly, there's enough division in this country already. Like, sometimes representation can just be representation. We don't have to always turn it into a competition.

[00:05:51]>> South Africans are not dark-skinned people. So, why should we portray something we're not? We're inherently brown-to-light-skinned people, and that's okay.

[00:06:00]Some of you like Uncook Rind la. Uncook Rind. I want you to do me a favor and walk outside. Walk outside and talk to the average South African.

[00:06:12]Go Go to Go to the hood, please, and talk to the average South African.

[00:06:16]Guess what? Bamnyama. Bamnyama, go to KZN. Now, say KZN.

[00:06:21]Bamnyama.

[00:06:22]There's no place you can go in this country where people are not dark-skinned. So, the fact that you, in your apartheid-diseased mind, think South Africans are just brown-to-light-skinned is absolutely insane.

[00:06:35]>> I don't know if you have seen, but Tyla, is it Tyla or Taylor or Tyla? But, the South African singer, he's getting hammered by the Black Americans because her EP did not sell. They say like it sold like three 3,000 copies or something. I don't even know how that works since people are streaming now. But, her her music is doing very bad, and people are still coming down on her because she went to America, and she called herself a colored.

[00:06:58]And when she was tried to be corrected, she continued to call herself a colored.

[00:07:02]And now, people are getting back at her and say, "Well, if you're going to insist to use a term that is offensive to us as Black Americans, well, we're not going to buy your music."

[00:07:11]And her career, it seems like it's not going very well with the Black Americans.

[00:07:14]But, you know what I think about this whole thing? It is one thing to be to be ignorant. You don't know the history of the colored term. It's one thing because you are from South Africa, right? You come to America. You don't know anything. And you are used to calling yourself a colored. And you come to America, and you call yourself a colored. But, when people correct you, and they try to give you the the historical basis of that term, you must be willing to listen. And especially when people tell you that, "Hey, this term is offensive to us as Black people." You don't go and double down and use your arrogance to say, "Well, I don't care how you guys feel." because that is a term that we use back in South Africa. You don't do that.

[00:07:50]And for me, as a black South African, I I also find the term colored very offensive. I find it very offensive that there are black people who are like me who call themselves colored and they are proud to call themselves colored.

[00:08:02]Because I think the only way you can be proud to call yourself a colored or use that term is if you don't know how the term came about, how the apartheid system came with that term or that classification of people. But if we were to tell you how it came about, I don't expect you to uh still insist to be using it. Because how the term colored came about, it came with a generation of black women being violently abused by the apartheid system. And the apartheid system to cover up what they had done to these black women, they came up with a new classification of people called colored. And then they they just started to come and add other groups of people, people from uh Malaysia, they came and added into this colored classification to try and hide the crime that they committed. You know, when when we say that apartheid was a crime against humanity, we don't talk enough about the aspect of how the colored term came about or how the colored classification came about.

[00:08:51]Because that was a crime against humanity. And that is a product of apartheid. To refer to yourself as a black person to be a colored, and when you are being corrected, you double down, you have this uh pride in referring to yourself as a colored. It is very stupid. And the child, unfortunately, she's young and people were not advising her very well. She should not have insisted to refer to herself in that way in a country that knows its history.

[00:09:15]You see, the the difference between South Africa and the US is that the US people know their history. They reflect on their history and they defend their history. And they will take on anyone who tries to minimize the history and the pain that they went through.

[00:09:27]In uh South Africa, we are different.

[00:09:28]Okay, many people don't even know how the colored term came about. They uh don't know. They just think that there was always these people who looked different from black people or people who just were needed to be called colored or maybe just something that was always there. It's not something that was always there. It is something that came about and something that came about as a cover-up for what people did, which was wrong. Okay. And when people come >> So, guys, you all have listened to everything colorism in South Africa.

[00:09:54]South Africans are not dark-skinned people. So, why should they be called colored? Yes, South Africans Most of South Africans are not dark-skinned.

[00:10:06]Like especially the Xhosa Have you seen the Xhosa people?

[00:10:09]Have you seen the Xhosa people? I feel it is the Zulu and the rest of other tribes who are black. But you see the Xhosa. The Xhosa people are light-skinned. They are light-skinned. I mean, I don't mean immigrant. Like when we talk about the white South Africans, these ones originated from Europe.

[00:10:25]They're Europeans, you get? But when you talk about the real South Africans, majority of them are light-skinned.