Structure

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

when being asked what is the practical thing that needs to be done in order to resolve the questions of both the continental and diaspora blacks/Africans in response to the international oppression . .

I often think of the momentary divergence, in fact not divergence but slight extensions of Fanon to Biko thoughts while they remained in agreement. ... in which Fanon went a step further to introduce the idea of "human relationality" in which he says,

"for the current human relations to continue to exist, black people must remain at the bottom of a vertical distribution of human values, because should black people aquire these values, it would result in an explosion of humanity into an incoherent mass"

therefore, what Fanon was highlighting was that, just like in a filal economy where a child is birthed into a particular family whereby he/she does not chose, in other words positioned already at birth. .. black people find themselves in that kind of structural positionality within this political economy, whereby their socio-economic position is already determined by virtue of being black! ...

the human relational question of fixed distribution of human values is essentially governed by whiteness, who can really only strive on the absence of blackness or black being, defined by absence within these values....

it therefore becomes instructive that, the only real way to practically deal with the international questions confronting black people, the white structure or supremacy must collapse in order to do away with this structural positionality issue, not the capital redistribution of the RDP of the anc... because that capital relation must die for the collapse to be meaningful. ..

anything other than this solution becomes a technical discussion similar to gay and women issues, which will take us beyond another five hundred years. ...

Biko however is correct also to say that, it is not enough to only gain economic freedom, because after that we have a slate of white values and culture to dust off! . . .

you can see micro examples of this in the black middle class who have fled to the white suburbs in how they represent the need to dust off white values and culture after economic freedom. ... not to suggest that they have economic freedom because they really only represent the buffer zone and not a real example of ownership of the means of production. ....

Black first. . .