i know this may be an imfamous subject but we need to venture into this 
territores as well. 
i have seen evidences of cast system still happening in most parts of the 
gambia ,the question is should we allow this ugly malnorma to be happening 
at this day and age ? 
i read a piece here on gambai l about the colour divide in south america 
especially brazil but what about where the issue is not colour but customs 
of old .no one can denied that cast system happens in the gambia and to my 
knowledge i have never heard any government agency trying to address this 
problem.
some may be at lost here as cast system or calling certain families of 
slave decendant don't occure in every part of the gambia. some parts of 
the kombos don't know 
cast system,but in the interlands of the gambia it happens.
it is a very ugly practice and we need to educate our people about the 
harmful nature of its continous occurance.
i have seen an incidence in u.k last year when a young gambian guy wanted 
to marry another gambian lady only to be interrupted by some else.
the interfarer claim that the lady should try to find out the family class 
of the young man before any marriage proposal can take place. ofcourse the 
young lady was shocked at such nonsence but still the marriage plans was 
altared. when the would be wife asked the man about just thing the man was 
very hurt because back in the gambia his family where regarded as a lower 
cast. so he though such nonsence will not follow him up to u.k but it did.
the would be wife didn't care any way and the marriage happens.but if the 
family of the young lady had been from the same area as the man the 
marraige wouldn't have happen. i am not a sociologist , and my family 
backgroung is not regarded as of lower cast but i am from areas where 
people are put in there place.
i am humblely appealing to gambians brothers and sisters to do away with 
this old age custom of ours which is worthless and useless ,it doesn't 
serve any purpose just petty enemity. let freedom reign and brotherhood in 
unity bind us together.the human family as always been divided ot all ages 
and our age is no exception .the number of human beings forced to work for 
others for free is exestimate to over 12.5 million people world wide.
the issue of race is sentive but race is not the only problem here.
among pulfutas and jahankas labelling a darker complexion ignorant or 
black is a common words which to me is silly . the jahakans can easily 
call a non- jahankas ignorant or lacking knowledge just because you are 
not one of them .
the fairer pulfutas regularly do the same. we can elaborate on this topic 
at lenght ,but as usual people will go back in their cells and behave as 
if this ugly misnorma doesn't happen. it does.i don't want to name places 
where it is prevalent but the cast system happens in 
mandinka ,sarahuleh ,fulla ,jahanka communitees .i don't know about wollof 
communitees.even if we can't say any thing about but don't be a party to 
it.
we are all born free. let's remain free.
suntou.

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