Unity amongst a true rainbow nation

Coloured people are amongst the most unrecognised nation in the so called “New South Africa” . Yet we were just as percecuted & oppressed, coloured people don’t know what unity is. Instead of uplifting our communities we burn them down and poison them with drugs.

I was born in South Africa 32 years ago, I have grown up in various neibourhoods over the years. When I go back and visit it saddens me to see what they have become. Our brothers are being sucked up by the lure of easy money through drugs and gangs, they have lost respect not only for themselves but for those around them. Our sisters are losing themselves to pregnancy at such young age that it robs them of their childhood and innocentce.

Coloured people are not of pure race (I know what you going to say, the nerve of this oke) but hear me out first. I’ll use myself as an example, my father is of Irish decent, my mother is of Jewish and Zulu decent and to top it of we have some Arab and Indian in there somewhere as well. Even though I can’t identify with either of them but I recognise them as part of my gene pool. This forms part of the reason why we have no unity, but by no means is it an excuse for us not to unify.

There is a saying “There is strength in unity and there is unity in numbers”. Lets talk about numbers, if research serves me right, if we put all the coloureds together from around the world we are actually the majority by a hundred to one.

When I was in my last year of school I had an afrikaans teacher that preached none stop politics instead of teaching her lessons, one afternoon my last class for the day was afrikaans (Which by the way is’nt our mother tongue). She decided to humiliate the only two coloureds in the class, which was myself and a very good friend of mine, we where the only two none blacks in the clas. She decided to give everyone a history lesson on why coloureds exist, she said were “Afskepsils” a product of unruly whites and strand loopers. This is why coloured people are regarded as a bunch of tik heads, alcoholics and wife beaters, because of people like my afrikaans teacher. But do we do anything to change that mind set? No, instead we do exactly that.

Lets take it a step further, I have travelled extensively I spent some time in Australia while I was there, a group of coloured teenagers from South Africa were deported back to South Africa. Why you ask? I’ll tell you why, because they brought their shity back street ways with them, their parents hundreds of thousands to get out of South Africa specifically to give them a better life away from the drugs and the gangs. They decided to do the typical coloured neibourhood weekend thing, wait for it. Sitting on the street corners with liquer, loud music, smoking dagga and causing trouble. Now tell you me, their parents made sacrifices to leave South Africa for a better life for these kids, then they screw it up because the getto life is the shit. This is by no means an isolated incident many South African coloured families had to go through that exact same heart break because of their kids not wanting to let go of the GETTOLECIOUS life style. Instaed of improving our lives we sit around blaming everyone except ourselves.

Another problem in our communities are our leaders including some our church leaders (thats a topic for another day), they have let our people down, they are untrust worthy and they are a bunch of sell outs.

To end of I beleive we need to break free from mental slavery, unify and become a force to be dealt with. Get rid of the drugs the gangs reabilitate our neibourhoods. Get educated. Do we know what the true meaning of empowerment is. I doubt it, true empowerment is’nt about waiting for something or someone to come along a spoon feed you with a job, a promotion, finance, education, your own busines. No true empowerment is about arming yourselves the tools, which is knowledge, life skills and the power to achieve. Let us take back our pride, our communities, our daugthers, our sons and create a brighter new future for them, lets us build empires, lets us be the true leaders of the future. Let us make a differance.

Remeber nobody owes you anything, we owe it to ourselves. We are the true rainbow nation.

Peace to my people.