Abolish the term Coloured: Khoi-San Leader

[James]

The leader of the Khoi and San in KwaZulu-Natal has called for the word "coloured" to be abolished because it is a derogatory term, the Witness reported on Monday.

According to the paper, Raymond Trollip said members of the coloured community should be referred to by their different tribes, such as the Khoi, San, Nama, Khoran, and the Griqua.

"The word coloured must be removed like all other names that have been removed. It is similar to the offensive '******'...read more here: Abolish the term Coloured: Khoi-San Leader

[Edelweiss]

Coloured here: Impossible. The "tribes" have mixed too much. How do we discern between the different tribes?

[MetalSoup]

Maybe we should just stop distinguishing between races. Just my opinion.

[Saint_Dee]

Maybe we should just stop distinguishing between races. Just my opinion.

There's an idea that I've been singing for quite a while... We are not our pigment, we are humans, that's all that matters...

[MalicE]

94.5% of the time it's "coloured" people calling other "coloured" people "coloured"

[simon]

TBH I don't really see the problem in being called white, coloured or black.
I feel it is the same as somebody saying I have blonde hair...
Besides the term coloured fits in with rainbow nation

[Edelweiss]

1st time I ever heard of a Khoi san "leader" in S.A.
wat.

[MHercie]

The ANC actually wants to categorize coloreds under as being black......meaning on our ID's it will say we are black.

[JudeC]

if we are catergorised by tribes, will that affect all colours, will whites be split into their European ancestral races, like Scottish white, English white, dutch white, and blacks into Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho , cause the check boxes are going to be insane when applying for a id document, three pages to search for your proper ethnicity

[MHercie]

There is actually a big debate now on the origin of the coloreds,and it did not start by the khoisan,I cannot give full detail,but it's a big issue in politics now.