” Life is far more complex than the complexion of your skin” – Precious Kofi
Former South African television personality, Precious who now goes by Mrs Schammel has opened up about being in a mixed relationship and she has detailed some some of the pressures placed on couples who are in a mixed-race relationship or marriage. Precious is married to a white American man. The couple have two children.. Speaking from experience, Precious took to Instagram recently and revealed that even though race is not a big issue in her family‚ they are not immune to discriminative comments made about them.
“I’m not going to pretend like colour isn’t a thing‚ as even the most well-meaning human loving individuals in our lives aren’t able to truly see passed the colour of my skin.”
“We’re definitely not immune to race issues and do experience our share of prejudicial comments more often than I care to count‚” Precious wrote.
She says that at first these messages “rubbed me the wrong way” but then she realised that there was a time when she too went “googoo gaga over children of mixed race” and thought marrying over the colour line may make the marriage easier.
“After two kids and being married for nearly five years‚ that naive girl has grown a bit. What I would like to tell my young self is that a man is a man‚ period. And a woman is a woman‚ period. With race it’s so easy for each one of us to generalize and place people within a box of our own understanding. Life is far more complex than the complexion of your skin.”
