When I was in Cyprus a Pakistani sister from Manchester was in conversation with a German sister. The German sister was referring to black people as coloured. The Pakistani sister to my surprise told her off to which the German sister replied "no no you mustn't say black it's wrong".
I had been keeping out of the conversation until this point when I felt the need to inform this sister that there is nothing wrong with calling a black person black. Many black people find the description "coloured" very offensive. To this the sister said "but you're not all black anyway. Some of you are brown, some of you are light brown, some of you are caramel". I had to laugh at this and just walked out of the room. I couldn't help but wonder what "colour" she would use to describe me. Chocolate perhaps.
People don't seem to realise the connotations behind calling a person coloured or even understand why people are offended by the term. If we are coloured then the world should be coloured because there is no person who is actually black as black is or white as white is. I suppose it doesn't help the cause when you have black people who have a complex with their race, telling people they are gold or golden brown. Wtf?!?!
Black is a race just as white is a race. I am not coloured therefore don't call me coloured. The key is though to accept yourself as you are and this is a message to all the "golden brown" people out there. Be proud of who you are and where you come from and the sooner we can accept ourselves the sooner other people will learn to accept you too.
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U know I feel sorry for non black people. It's hard Cus some pple
ReplyDeleteDon't mind being called black while others take offence to it.
Pple are so scared they don't wanna be labeled as being racist
What is funny is White pple generally don't take offence when pple call them White. So why do some black pple have a complex about it
Very true. I think the reason some black people don't like being called black is because they're not proud to be black. They're ashamed of it, like there's some sort of stigma attached to being black. We're the ones making it hard for non black people to just say black. We're black. We should embrace it and stop hiding behind foolishness like "coloured", "gold" and "caramel".
ReplyDeletelove the pic by the way
ReplyDeleteThanks lovey. I'm quite fond of it myself. Wish I drew it lol.
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