the Apes, and the monkeys have
taken over.
—So you can imagine how weird it
was for me. I was mixed but not
colored—colored by complexion but
not by culture. Because of that I
was seen as a colored person who
didn’t want to be colored.
In Eden Park, I encountered
two types of colored people. Some
colored people hated me because of
my blackness. My hair was curly
and I was proud of my Afro. I spoke
African languages and loved
speaking them. People would hear