tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33723859.post115852104949501108..comments2007-04-06T15:23:00.771-07:00omoplusjeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951859546619522316noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33723859.post-1160369902254675132006-10-08T21:58:00.000-07:002006-10-08T21:58:00.000-07:00Illuminative comments Omo and thank you for them. (I am a friend of Chris from your workplace.) I too am black but perhaps morphing into "coloured" according to your blog. Your comments remind me of the stories my parents told me about Montreal during the 1940's when very light-skinned black people would "pass". They would pretend to be white and while outside on the street, would walk by their very own relatives (that they had known since childhood) as if they didn't know them. Of course, those interracial marriages produced some very interesting children, often resulting in a very quick divorce!<BR/>Racism in Bermuda was alive and well during my mother's time (she's 80 now). In the black-only schools and classrooms, the light-skinned children sat at the front, and by hue, the children were sorted until reaching the back row, which held the darkest-skinned students.<BR/>"Good" hair was hair that was curly and didn't really need to be permed. (An explanation for white folks; a perm means to straighten the hair, not make it curly.) These are just a few instances of what it was like during the forties and apparently are not far from 2006 in SA.<BR/>I look forward to seeing more comments about SA.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754397888217727457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33723859.post-1159875179045416982006-10-03T04:32:00.000-07:002006-10-03T04:32:00.000-07:00Fantastic blog Omo. I just finished reading a book called "A State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence". It had chapters on virtually every country in Africa - the chapter on South Africa made it sound like the freeing of Nelson Mendela solved all of South Africa's problems and everyone now lives as one big, happy, mixed family. It is amazing to hear about the reality of the situation from someone who is actually living there now. <BR/><BR/>Keep up the entries .....Kerrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10915751029944169199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33723859.post-1158525978117806402006-09-17T13:46:00.000-07:002006-09-17T13:46:00.000-07:00Hi, i was looking over your blog and didn't<BR/>quite find what I was looking for. I'm looking for<BR/>different ways to earn money... I did find this though...<BR/> a place where you can make some nice extra cash secret shopping. <BR/>I made over $900 last month having fun!<BR/><A HREF="http://www.degree-programs-online.info/makingcash.html" REL="nofollow">make extra money</A>Askinstoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441898079939101534noreply@blogger.com