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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:11:40 -0700
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>Subject:      [VILLAGE] [Fwd: BLACK LIBERALS HAVE CONTAMINATED OUR STRUGGLE=
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>Subject: BLACK LIBERALS HAVE CONTAMINATED OUR STRUGGLE
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>'Black liberals have contaminated our struggle'
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>It is Sunday afternoon, 12 September 1999. It was exactly 22 years ago
>when son of man, Bantu Steve Biko was brutally murdered by the settler
>minority regime; almost six years since our pseudo-independence, yet
>our society is still largely controlled by the minority nation and
>Black Liberals.
>
>Those who were direct products of the Black Consciousness philosophy,
>have since changed their tune and declared Black Consciousness racist,
>obsolete, redundant and radical. These were the people who
>miscalculated the liberatory philosophy of the Black Consciousness.
>When you say you are Black and Proud, they are too quick to label you
>racist and not progressive; progressive to them is when you have whites
>amongst your midst and elect them to lead your organisation.
>
>Our country today is dominated by Black Liberals entourage in almost
>all sectors of our society, our news rooms both print and electronic,
>have also been permeated by Black liberalism. They are so much
>influential to an extent that most of our youth take them as their
>genuine role-models, what our youth do not realise is that a Black
>Liberal lives a fake life and has no pride in himself/herself.
>
>No wonder most of our youth think that part of our liberation struggle
>was to replace white faces in parliament with black faces, attending
>multi-racial schools or perhaps dating whites. One of the main
>objectives of the Black Consciousness Movement, was exactly the other
>way round, to crush the "Ja Baas, More Baas" tendencies, Black
>Liberalism and the fear that was instilled amongst us.
>
>It was the same Black Liberals that sold us out during the secret talks
>and Kempton Park negotiations, which gave the minority nation an
>ultimate control on almost all aspects of our lives. To make matters
>worse, we are expected to sing the apartheid anthem,"Die Stem" all in
>the name of reconciliation and rainbow nation. This is the same anthem
>that was brilliantly sung during the apartheid days at the decoration
>ceremonies of SAP and SANDF force members, after successful
>cross-border operations in Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Angola.
>
>Transformation process in this country is generally moving at a garden
>snail pace, because it is led by Black Liberals, these are the kind of
>people who soft peddle white arrogance in this country. Some white
>people in this country have indicated their willingness to renounce the
>South African citizenship, yet the Black Liberals still beg them not to
>relocate.
>
>Today there is a debate about "Who is an African" in South Africa,
>largely because of the Black Liberals telling white South Africans or
>rather European-Africans, that they also qualify as Africans. Black
>Liberalism is very dangerous and will destroy what sons and daughters
>of the soil gallantly died and fought for. These are the same people
>that allow us to be called names such as "people of colour in sports
>circles" without protest, because they suffer from identity crisis.
>Please call us Black Players not players of colour. We must go back to
>basics, educate and politicise our masses; we cannot lead Africa if we
>have no faith in ourselves.
>
>Bantu Biko talked about "Black Souls in White Skins", are we now
>witnessing the reverse of what Biko talked about some years back, that
>is "white Souls in Black Skins"? There is no doubt in my mind that
>Black Liberals' aspiration is whiteness, his dream is about waking-up
>white the next morning, he continuously asks, "Why did God make me
>Black"? Black Liberalism has today successfully destroyed the Black
>Consciousness Movement in the States, we must be careful of that.
>
>His only wish in Setswana is, "Keletso ya nna Pitse, nko ke palama". He
>goes around telling the workers and the youth how much he/she hates
>imperialism, yet he openly displays one of the world =91s greatest
>imperialist flags, US, on his car. All of them today talk African
>Renaissance so eloquently and if you are not the Black person of my
>kind and thinking, you will definitely be easily deceived. What he does
>not know is that African Renaissance cannot succeed if it is dominated
>by Black Liberalism, it cannot succeed if it is not preceded by Black
>Renaissance, which is logically and historically Black Consciousness
>philosophy.
>
>How do we as Azanians (South Africans) hope to realise African
>Renaissance, if we despise ourselves as people ? We surely and
>desperately need constant political education.
>
>Sincerely yours
>Lesego Sechaba Mogotsi
>Azapo : Publicity Director
>North West Province
>PO Box 392, MAFIKENG, 2745, Tel. 018 - 383 3985(H), Cell. 082 5695
>762.
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