Bruinous get badmouthed – Bruinou.com responds

The article published by Mr Blackman Ngoro on his website www.asiaafrorights.org,
in which he derides and denigrates Coloured people with some caustic,
stinging, racist comments has caused quite a furore around the country.
Finally, we have people sitting up and asking themselves the questions
we’ve long been asking here at Bruinou.com…where are the Coloured
leaders? Where is the Coloured representation in South Africa? Of
course this whole fiasco will blow over, and people will return to
their normal routines without giving the issues raised a second
thought, but you can rest assured that Bruinou.com will be here for a
long time to come, where you can discuss and share your views with all
and sundry.

Our immediate, knee-jerk response to Mr Blackman Ngobo is copied below, for those not on our email mailing lists.

I
consider myself to a be a reasonable person at most times, restrained,
rational, calm and calculating. But I’m afraid all this flew out of the
window this morning when I read a very disturbing article on the Cape Times website.
Now, the attentive Bruinou.com members out there will recall an
article on Bruinou.com recently in which I outlined the lack of
Coloured representation in the Cape Town Unicity upper management.

Well,
it appears that things have taken a far more sinister turn for the
worst. Media adviser to the Mayor of Cape Town, Blackman Ngoro has
published some extremely offensive and downright derogatory comments
about the Coloured people of South Africa on one of his private
websites.

In Ngoro’s editorial entitled: “Why Africans and coloureds are on
the throat of the other (sic) in the Western Cape and Cape Town”, he
made stark racial comments about the relationship between coloureds and
Africans.

These included statements that Africans were
“culturally superior” to coloureds, that coloureds were “cheerleaders”
for the “white race” and if they did not undergo an “ideological
transformation”, their race would “die a drunken death”.

The
article further implied that all coloureds were drunkards and prone to
alcohol abuse. Mr Ngoro further posted another article on his website
conceding the editorial was “offensive”! . Making an “unreserved
apology”, he said it had “nothing to do” with Mfeketo (the mayor of
Cape Town) or the ANC. In an interview with the Cape Argus, however, he
defended his original article.

The South African Human Rights
Commission has refused to brand this as hate speech for whatever
reason. Personally, I feel violated, debased and my efforts at being a
strong, positive, progressive Coloured person seem to have come to
nought when I am publicly, so negatively and harshly stereotyped.

Now,
I don’t often resort to vulgarities (although I am perfectly capable
and genetically pre-equipped with a rather large expletive arsenal), I
feel that on this single occassion, I need to let Mr Blackman Ngoro
know how rabidly upset he has made me. I don’t actually care if this is
construed as playing into these steretyped parameters I have been boxed
into. If my fellow Bruinou.com members could excuse this minor
transgression, I’d like to let Mr Ngoro know that on behalf of the
entire Bruinou.com team, all we’d like to say is…”F*CK YOU!!!! “

Regards,
Charles Ash, on behalf of The Bruinou.com Team