It is still colored people who are stuck in the middle.
"We have to be honest. In many ways life here is no different than it was during apartheid. Maybe we feel betrayed because the government used to take care of us. But those handouts were payments for oppression. They denied us the right to vote. They said we were less than white people.
"Now we have our dignity. Now we have our freedom. The rest will come."
| African National Congres member and political organizer Elizabeth Tully assesses colored people's prospects in Lydia Polgreen's New York Times article "For Mixed-Race South Africans, Equity Is Elusive"
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