@Giselle: Yip, you’ll find internalised racism even on Twitter with the recent #thingsdarkiessay Trending Topic. I don’t blame POC for this — the powers that be taught us [too] well.

Very interesting article on Bruin-ou. We as coloured love looking down on ourselves and I hope that we can stop doing that. We need to stand together and lift it each other. Its starts with us before other races can even “go there”

I discovered your blog by pure “chance” and i must say your blogs are refreshing to say the least. Well on the subject of “Coloured in the City”…true that we always get those images of the Cape Flats or other poor coloured communities and that is what people tend to assosciate us with, papsak drinking, wife and kids beating no front teeth hustler. But what they don’t know is that – yes there are some of us that : cycle, surf, speak normal english or afrikaans, are into theater, drama, science, art, travel, ride harley davidsons, dine at fine resturants, But this bruin-ou according to the media does not exist and what you see on the Cape Flats is as good as it gets.(I went out with a non “coloured lady and her parents were gobsmacked to find a normal “guy”) Thanks Joy…i will be following your blog with interest.

Thanks for stopping by. Yeah, you described me to the T. And that’s the problem I have with the SA media — they seem to focus on the Manenberg or Bonteheuwel coloured with no teeth who tiks too much and who punches his ‘kind’ when she speaks too much. There are too many negative stereotypes of us.

Thanks for the words of motivation, though. But validation is so very important. And we all need it, to various degrees, don’t you agree?