Comments on: My Coloured Aunty in Mitchells Plain Feels Marginalised http://glasspearl.co.za/blog/2009/04/16/coloured-aunty-mitchells-plain-feels-marginalised/ Working and Living in South Africa Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Abigail Abrahams http://glasspearl.co.za/blog/2009/04/16/coloured-aunty-mitchells-plain-feels-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-2263 Abigail Abrahams Tue, 05 May 2009 16:53:41 +0000 http://glasspearl.co.za/blog/?p=1310#comment-2263 Hi Nigel, I'm acknowledge my South African mixed race heritage wholeheartedly. As you've said, being coloured is complicated. It's not just one thing - it's a mixture of religions, nationalities, political affiliations and ethnicities. As such I cannot see how your organisation can want representation for such a broad community. We already have radio stations like Voice of the Cape and CCFM that speaks to religious coloureds. So what more do you want? Would your organisation be catering for the more narrow minded coloured - the one who refer to blacks as darkies or the ones who say they can't speak Afrikaans, or the ones who vote DA or the ones who vote ANC? Because these are all very different people. Personally, I would much rather celebrate being South African than to celebrate a nametag that was given to me by an apartheid government. Hi Nigel,

I’m acknowledge my South African mixed race heritage wholeheartedly.

As you’ve said, being coloured is complicated. It’s not just one thing – it’s a mixture of religions, nationalities, political affiliations and ethnicities.

As such I cannot see how your organisation can want representation for such a broad community.

We already have radio stations like Voice of the Cape and CCFM that speaks to religious coloureds. So what more do you want?

Would your organisation be catering for the more narrow minded coloured – the one who refer to blacks as darkies or the ones who say they can’t speak Afrikaans, or the ones who vote DA or the ones who vote ANC? Because these are all very different people.

Personally, I would much rather celebrate being South African than to celebrate a nametag that was given to me by an apartheid government.

]]> By: Nigel Perkett http://glasspearl.co.za/blog/2009/04/16/coloured-aunty-mitchells-plain-feels-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-2255 Nigel Perkett Tue, 05 May 2009 07:46:50 +0000 http://glasspearl.co.za/blog/?p=1310#comment-2255 Hi Abigail, Your situation is not unique at all,there are many coloureds that feel they should be classified black or vice versa white,the question what happens to the rest who feel they want to be coloured and how do we deal with it,Your aunty has her right to classified coloured,but let me tell you up today the Black,White,Coloured,Asian is in the constitution but yet to be defined,question we always ask what me you black,skin colour,traditions,where you born,support the ANC,Culture,etc therefore let your aunty take her rightful place Unashemedly Proudly South African Coloured, PLEASE SEE ATTACHED LINK Director of SAME http://www.ipetitions.com/petition /colouredmedia hhttp://www.same.org.za/filez/Open_%20Letter_to_the_SABC_from_SAME-30March2009.pdf Director OF Hi Abigail,
Your situation is not unique at all,there are many coloureds that feel they should be classified black or vice versa white,the question what happens to the rest who feel they want to be coloured and how do we deal with it,Your aunty has her right to classified coloured,but let me tell you up today the Black,White,Coloured,Asian is in the constitution but yet to be defined,question we always ask what me you black,skin colour,traditions,where you born,support the ANC,Culture,etc therefore let your aunty take her rightful place Unashemedly Proudly South African Coloured,
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED LINK
Director of SAME
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition
/colouredmedia
hhttp://www.same.org.za/filez/Open_%20Letter_to_the_SABC_from_SAME-30March2009.pdf
Director OF

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