The fact that We, Black People, today know that We suffer economic exclusion because We don't have an economy, and still don't decide to take serious steps to form Our own economy suggests that We do not care about Our Lives. It also reminds me of when @kanyewest said slavery
"Depravation began the moment Africans were captured and enslaved. Slaveowners found that controlling the food supply was an effective way to command obedience and subservience.
Children born into slavery quickly learned where they stood in the pecking order. The black mother's milk was often diverted to the white child, leaving the black baby to be weaned on depravation."
Tom Burrell, "Brainwashed"
It's in every corner of South Africa.
Why don't you people read the racist laws your ancestors created which resulted in apartheid spatial planning.
Native Reserves Act
Native Urban Areas Act
Group Areas Act
I mean really now
❝A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.❞ ~ Booker T. Washington #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿
Unemployment is a deliberate POLITICAL policy since 1913, there is no single economic justification.
South Africa's median age is 28, apartheid left huge infrastructure deficit for over 80% of population so the youthful population should be BUILDING the country with full employment.
To build South Africa will take 20 to 30 years for optimal economic output
For me, this is "good hair" and "fair skin." I define for myself. Why would I allow a culture that has historically oppressed, exploited and brutalized me tell me what is "fair" and what is "good"? I define from my perspective. It is part of the process of liberation
The worst thing that colonialism did was to capture the minds of African people. So many of us can't even conceptualize the world outside of colonial frameworks.
"Thus in all fields "Black Consciousness" seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own. It is only by recognizing the basic set-up in the black world that one will come to realize the urgent need for a re-awakening of the sleeping masses.
Black consciousness seeks to do this. Needless to say it shall have to be the black people themselves who shall take care of this programme."
Steve Biko, "I Write What I Like"