People of your errr colour

I am a South African woman who has survived the degrading days of apartheid. I say "survived" because I don't base my interactions with any person on the colour of the skin of the person. Be that as it may, I had quite an interesting encounter with a young woman at the local Spar checkout.

I had a copy of the Sunday Times (a South African Newspaper) and was about to pay for it at the checkout when the woman at the till said: "Is this the one with the "extra". Um No. I know that people of your (here she began to flounder) errr colour" like that one". I felt embarrassed for her, I think, so I said nothing.

Later, I thought I should have said something for her own education. But the atmosphere at that moment was like, oops these are no more the rollicking (for those of the right skin colour) days of apartheid. It was as if she realised that she should not have voiced this in a post-apartheid South Africa.

Yes, I am brown in colour, of Indian descent.

Anycase why does the Newspaper still have a separate section for these "brownies" in a post-apartheid country?


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