Kuli's coloured column sparks outrage

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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Kulis-coloured-column-sparks-outrage-20110228

Cape Town - The Press Ombudsman received a complaint on Monday about a controversial column written by Kuli Roberts in the Sunday World.

The column has caused a storm on Twitter, with City Press editor Ferial Haffajee tweeting: “If Bullard was fired for racism then so must Avusa fire Kuli Roberts. Sunday World column on coloureds. Racist, vile, disgusting [sic].”

Radio 702 DJ John Robbie also called for the Sunday World to sack the columnist whose weekly piece is titled “Bitch’s Brew”, and News24’s editor Jannie Momberg called the column “blatant racism”.

Mail and Guardian online editor Chris Roper said he did not understand why there was a controversy and simply thought “with a bit of editing it would have been funny”.

The column was removed by the newspaper but sometime on Monday it was back on the website.

This comes just days after government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi apologised for saying that there was an “oversupply” of coloured people in the Western Cape.

He said they should look to the rest of the country “to see where they can meet the supply”.

In the article, Roberts writes that a "friend" explained to her why coloured women are “crazy”.

The tongue-in-cheek piece writes about coloured people who “shout and throw plates, have no front teeth and eat fish like they are trying to deplete the ocean and love to fight in public”.

Angry South Africans who read the article described Roberts as “pathetic, attention-whoring and a bad writer” on social networking platforms.

One tweeter, ‘KeenyKeenz' wrote: “That Sunday World piece by Kuli Roberts is ignorant, offensive, blatantly racist and proves her, I assume self-given, title of 'bitch'.”
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I lost all my shame a few months ago so here goes.

I read that column now and again and every week it offends someone. This article is just run of the mill stuff.
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
Can someone please paste the original column text here?
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Sure thing my laanie

Being from Cape Town, I miss say I miss Cape coloured women.

When I was young, I used to love playing with their silky hair and wished I could get rid of my kinky course variety.

"What’s wrong with you?" asked my friend while applying skin lightener.

"Black is beautiful, why would you wanna be any other race?"

I ignore her and her weave and go back to my dreams of being yellow and speaking like I’m singing.

Coloured girls are the future for various reasons:

# They will never leave dark foundation on your shirt after a hug;

# You will never run out of cigarettes;

# You will always be assured of a large family as many of these girls breed as if Allan Boesak sent them on a mission to increase the coloured race;

# They don’t have to fork out thousands on their hair as they mostly have silky hair that doesn’t need relaxers or weaves;

# They always know where to get hair curlers and wear them with pride, even in shopping malls;

# You don’t have to listen to those clicks most African languages have;

# They are the closest thing to being a white woman and we know you black men love them as they look like they’ve popped out of an Usher music video;

# Their bruises are more obvious than ours, so if you hit her it will be easier to see;

# They don’t have to send their sons to initiation school, where they stand a chance of getting a horrendous infection and even dying.

My friend disagrees with me about coloured women.

She insists that black guys don’t date crazy people.

"What?" she says. "Coloureds are nuts because:

# They drink Black Label beer and smoke like chimneys;

# They shout and throw plates;

# They have no front teeth and eat fish like they are trying to deplete the ocean;

# They love to fight in public and most are very violent;

# They’re always referring to your mother’s this or that;

# They know exactly what Tik is;

# They love designer clothes;

# They love making love, and leave even the randiest negro exhausted;

# They walk around in their gowns and pyjamas during the day.

What is wrong with my friend? I wonder.

So what if folk walk around in their gowns and pyjamas during the day, especially since they will eventually go back to bed?

Why waste washing powder?

Shouting is also sometimes necessary, especially when you speak to folk like Jimmy Manyi, who might not have a clue what he is talking about.

Designer labels are mostly made in the Cape, so why should they not love them?

Referring to one’s mother should also not be an issue, unless a monkey gave birth to you.

Besides, reminding you of your mother shouldn’t be a bad idea. Call her now.

What the hell is wrong with loving sex? Should they hate it?

Just because my friend is a lousy lay doesn’t mean the entire coloured nation should not like protected sex.

Knowing what tik is doesn’t necessarily mean one is using it, I told my daft friend.

Saying they are violent is also a generalisation.

I know plenty of coloured fraudsters and coloured Hari Krishnas.

Of course I miss coloured people. Which other race do you know that is more obsessed with naai masjiene. Oh, and I don’t mean sewing machines.

Besides, only in the Cape would you hear somebody screaming out: Jou ma owe jou hond sex geld!"
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So let me get this straight: Her name is Kuli and she wrote about coloureds?

Or was that the other way around?

:D:D

Hehe yes I know, I know, lame...
 
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This is just one of those silly joke articles, weird that people can't see the humour here. If this was in You magazine no one would care, and most coloureds are probably laughing at this or also just not caring.

Serious comments like Manyi's are a problem, not this.

Aah, thank God for the M&G: "Mail and Guardian online editor Chris Roper said he did not understand why there was a controversy and simply thought “with a bit of editing it would have been funny”." Spot on, it's not a very good piece but it's got a few funny bits and nothing hateful about it.
 
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Some people are too sensitive. As stupid as that column is, there's nothing wrong with a little banter. And let's face it, it's the sort of crap that most of us get in our emails anyway.

The different cultures in this country is what makes each culture great. Should we all just lose our uniqueness and become walking drones? I don't see Indian people kicking up a racket around the constant jabs taken at them.
 
If our ruling party can get away with racism, so can we. That's equality. The point of contention seems to be calling for the genocide of a racial group, so you can do everything short of that, no problem.

As for the article, I thought it was boring, and it wasn't amusing. Even coloureds rip themselves so much better than that.
 
xrapidx said:
I read it :(

Where do I apply for my time refund?
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If you find out, let me know as well.

They still owe me for the 17 or so hours I spent watching Marie Antoinette.
And that thing with the tree-hugging furries with USB ports.

It's really a stupid column but is it necessacry to make all this fuss about it?
 
I'm a coloured and I find nothing offensive about that article.

However, it is a really poor attempt at humour. Ask Trevor Noah for tips next time.
 
I will file a complaint against the poor use of English grammar in the article. Haven't she heard of MS Word better still OpenOffice? They come with a spell checker unless at Sunday World they submit articles written on toilet tissues....
 
Mbuzi said:
I will file a complaint against the poor use of English grammar in the article. Haven't she heard of MS Word better still OpenOffice? They come with a spell checker unless at Sunday World they submit articles written on toilet tissues....
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A grammar failure can't file a grammar complaint :P
 
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