"Black people will become increasingly active as they notice that their retrogressive status exists in large measure because of values and institutions arranged against them. They will begin to stress and strain and call the entire system into question. Political modernisation will be in motion. One form of that motion is Black Power.
The adoption of the concept of Black Power is one of the most legitimate and healthy developments in American politics and race relations in our time." - Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael
Reading this brings to mind the ways in which Black power politics are received, used and misused in Southern Africa. While there are various political groups that purpot to espouse it, they are not nearly efficient enough to dislodge the capitalist system. We are practically as divided and therefore weakened as the racist masters of capital accumulation want us to be. Stokely Carmichael towards the end of his illustrious revolutionary life, spoke very earnestly about UNITY OF PURPOSE.
While we may seem unanimously united on social media and at certain national subjects, we are quite divided according to classical class lines. In other places there is still the lingering stench of tribalism as well as other regressive chauvinisms which are relics of a colonial past.
Revolutionaries such as Kwameh Ture are a gift to us, if only we would heed their teachings and truly strive for that Unity of Purpose and stand up - make our world a more peaceful, prosperous and just one.
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