Listen to the red cries of a red man

Why am I so disadvantaged? What have I done to deserve this? Is it my destiny? Why am I not understood when I speak out? No! Nobody will ever hear me out for I'm only a Red person.

So many names or titles, I have been given; Bushmen, San, Basarwa, and Remote Area Dwellers. Who am I? I don't even know myself. Why do I ask this for I'm only a Red person?

I'm laughed at with words connoting negative aspects and I'm discriminated against. What am I? I don't even know my kind. I'm understood to be indigenous, yes! Indeed, I'm indigenous for I have originated in this country before any other and from time immemorial but I'm always the last. My life is the last. Is there a quest for life? Tell me the price so that I can buy. Oh! How I'm dying to know. Or am I helpless for I'm only a Red person?
Why was there a Red person? Who made me to be such? But I neither want to be a Black Person nor a White person. I just want to be equal. Why do I say this for I'm only a Red person?

Editor's Comment
Congratulations Anicia Gaothuse!

The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...

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