A response to "Is Love Colour Blind"

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Do 10 black students really represent the thousands of black students that attend the University of Cape Town?

 At any point in time if one wants the view of 10 black students then it is important to look not only at their race but thier year at Varsity, their class, their self-confidence and whether are not they have freed their minds from the hands of the opressor.

In my opinion, that 10 interviewed by Varsity included a former Katlego who has become "Kat", a Xhanti who prefers "X" and a Khethiwe turned "Katy". It is important to know recognise that as one moves further away from thier high school years and shapes into a young man and women that, thier minds are freed by academia, self-belief and a general recognition and embracing of the rainbow nation that paints our social interactions they become increasingly aware of the beauty of blackness, the appreciation of curves and the ability to share sweet moments in ones vanacular language.

 I do not believe that the reality of love exists in the article, Is Love Colour Blind. I have friends in inter-racial, inter-cultural and inter-tribal relationships and they for me hold testament not to wanting to date above your race but of showing that love, for them, is about the person they experience not the one that we see in the world.

The controversy surroundng this article re-iterates the need for us to look deeper within ourselves and to deal with the reality of the inferiority complex that still resides for some within our selves and for others amongst our peers. It is a just reaction to be offended, not just by virture of where in the love chain of attractiveness your own race features, but to probe the reality of plunging inot this issue without considering your own situation.

As stated by Varisty their press release, this was in fact an opinoin peace but it was an opinion full of bias and awareness of one's own situation. the author really should have considered the position of people/students outside of their own social crowd or immediate situation.  Afterall Eve never wrote a song about whether or not love is COLOUR blind, the right lyric I believe is "Love is blind". With that saud I end with a quote from Shakespeare used in one of my favourite movies/books of all time- Jane Austins Sense and Sensibility.

Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved