Born a Crime

have Asian features, some have
white features, some have black
features. It’s not uncommon for a
colored man and a colored woman
to have a child that looks nothing
like either parent.
The curse that colored people
carry is having no clearly defined
heritage to go back to. If they trace
their lineage back far enough, at a
certain point it splits into white
and native and a tangled web of
“other.” Since their native mothers
are gone, their strongest affinity
has always been with their white
fathers, the Afrikaners. Most
colored people don’t speak African
languages. They speak Afrikaans.
Their religion, their institutions,
all of the things that shaped their
culture came from Afrikaners.