Identify Yourself – The Story of Bruin-ou.com – Part II
Bruin-ou.com
by Charles Ash
Is the term Coloured apartheid baggage?
In the last newsletter, I took a meander down memory lane to try to explain to some people the impetus that drove me to start Bruin-ou.com and even in the face of resistance, to persevere and keep on going.
The term “Coloured” has become a rather vilified and eschewed term in recent years. In numerous debates with people of different race groups and ideological persuasions, I’ve often heard people use the pathetic argument that the term “Coloured” was given to us people of mixed race because “they” didn’t know what else to call us. I’ve had numerous run-ins withfaceless, toothless academics over my passion for Coloured identity and my continued campaigning to raise the ire of Coloured consciousness. I’m always charged with being a backward, retrogressive who is hell-bent on apartheid era labelling and by continuing to use the term Coloured, I am inadvertently giving credence to Verwoerd and the NP’s sinister policies.