Steve Biko – Africa: The Portrait of a Defeated Race
Courtesy of the African History Group
STEPHEN BANTU BIKO in his book ” I write what I like” says the following amongst others.*
What is a character of a defeated race?*
A race that brags about expensive clothes that they wear, that are produced by another race.
A race that brags about cars that they drive, that are manufactured by companies owned by another race.
A race that brags about their houses that are financed by financial institutions owned by another race.
A race that takes their kids to school to be taught by another race.
A race that will celebrate their wedding in the style of another race.
A race that has fully adopted language and religion of another race.
A race that will hate each other defending another race.
A race that will get excited to work for another race.
A race that the only freedom it has is the freedom to vote and not economic freedom.
A race that will kill each other just to have a political position and be in office and not be in power.
A defeated race is that race that is in majority but it’s survival relies on the minority race.
Are you part of the defeated race? Sadly I am.
The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself;
To pump back life into his empty shell;
To infuse him with pride and dignity,
To remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.”
Remembering Afrika Steve Bantu Biko
Long live Unity and Revolutionary Pan-Afrikan Renaissance consciousness.
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