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RE: How much do you know about southern African history? // original poetry
@trichmond68 Some days I agree with Steve Biko when he said South Africa needs communism, not because it's a good regime, but because it will unite the people. And eventually this unity will evolve into a true democracy. You see, the problem isn't a white vs. black thing, but a people vs. people thing. The tribes hate each other just as much as they hate the white man. It's sad, but it's true. The end goal should be to create a nation called South Africans, not zulus, and sothos, and vendas and boers. But South Africans!
You said it bro. I can hardly believe how far the politics has strayed from the proper Black Consciousness. People accused him of being racist but what he meant by blackness was an entirely different thing than race.
Biko's epitaph: One Azania One Nation. Very deliberate parting words if you ask me. Because it is both a country and a nation. He was a wise man indeed.
One has to fear the end result of nationalisation or expropriation of land as long as a program to counter tribalism and racism hasn't been pursued. Biko involved himself in programs of anti-racism along with social workers, psychologists and artists. I had the privilege of studying for a few years under one Dr. Saths Cooper. Brilliant minds where part of the struggle back then. Cooper is still a leading intellectual in his field today. The saddest thing is as soon as anything visionary or truly revolutionary is spoken about, it gets howled, heckled and blasted by the counter revolutionaries. Pathetic.