Reply To: Bullet list to inherit 'external' Character Style colour

Bullets follow the formatting of the text that follow it. If you change the text colour the bullet will also change.
If you add a character style to your bullets in the paragraph style this will over ride other formatting you set manually.

When you add a character style manually to text the bullet does not follow this formatting.

So in your case I think you will need to create a second paragraph style to apply the colour you require.