WHY IS OUR SKIN COLOUR A SIN?
The lyrics of Brook Benton’s song Oh Lord Why Lord ring true, particularly among black women, after Clicks’ offensive advert and the unbelievable responses of some black people to the furore.
The colour of our skin appears to remain an awful sin. For those who have no idea about what black people’s hair means and go as far as asking if people have to die because of hair, must be forgiven for their ignorance of apartheid and its humiliation of black people regarding their hair.
It is easy to issue a pretentious apology and claim to apologise unreservedly. Of course, black people are still waiting for the apology from the perpetrators and beneficiaries of apartheid. Not that the apology will ever come.
In fact, it is black people who
