a decomposed state of blackness

written by Maleke Montshiwagae


mo Afrika bua

one of the basic problems or challenges to black unity/power has been the "compartmentalisation" as Fanon would put it, of the collective blacks into such compartments as the youth leagues and women's leagues etc....

in this situation, the black youth and woman are rendered incapable of comprehending the functionalities of anti-blackness, one of which is the decomposition of the black force...

therefore these league compartments represents a decomposed state of blackness! ... this means that similar to the "class analysis" by the liberals, they begin to imagine their struggle as separate and essentially different to the black agenda. ... not understanding that in the anti-black white world, such discrimination is irrelevant! . . black is black. .. nothing else

that is why for example, in the white institutions of higher learning black youth suffer and battle to enter financially and otherwise. it's not because they are a youth, it is because their socio-economic status has been determined by the anti-black structural positionality and not their age! otherwise they would be facing the same battle as the offsprings of Verwoerd and Rhodes of the same age. ....

we should really begin to conscientize and make aware the collective blacks of the reality of anti-blackness...

we should cut back on the burning desire to produce a black youth who can only repeat what is in a policy document of whatever political conference ... . .or one who's task is to speak political education without education of blackness. ...

we should also be interested in the effects of the current song wave of economic freedom in our lifetime that teaches no ''black basics" in as far as the agenda to attaining our human status is concerned... it doesn't end there. ... attainment and reconstruction of blackness expands far beyond economic freedom in our lifetime. ...

In the name of Kemet, the land of the black people. .. the land of our ancestors that has demonstrated the black intellectual triumph over material things . ...

from Mapungubwe to Kemet!

Black first! !! . . land first. .. the black revolution