COLOURED people should reclaim their identity and right to self-identity, say Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel, who have written a seminal book – Coloured: How Classification became Culture.
In 2020, US police killed George Floyd, a black man, leading to a global resistance campaign, #BlackLivesMatter.
Locally, the police’s murder of 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies, a coloured teen with Down syndrome in Eldorado Park, sparked unrest which spread to other townships and social media. Soon, #ColouredLivesMatter was trending and became the rallying cry of an outraged community seeking justice.
Dooms, a sociologist and political analyst who describes herself as politically black but culturally coloured, was interviewed by