![]() ![]() Economically, I wonder how he can maintain the superiority of tribal land and the inferiority of private ownership and yet talk of “theft”. Let me make two points where Biko’s reasoning is flawed. Scripture doesn’t tell blacks or whites to give up their cultural identity in order to appear like another race or people (1Co. ![]() Christians should seek unity with all races, because all Christians-regardless of skin color-will join the same choir one day (Rev. ![]() Even today, T-shirts with the BC slogan are everyone in our village: “Being black is not a matter of pigmentation-being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.” “Black Consciousness” (BC) encouraged blacks to take pride in being black. ![]() On every page he fights against white supremacy and racism, defined as discrimination by a group against another for the purposes of subjugation. In his college days he wrote columns in the student journal under the pseudonym “Frank Talk”, which later became this book.īiko writes intelligently and with conviction. But after his untimely death he became a symbol of heroic defiance against apartheid in South Africa. Before his demise he was known as a political activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. At age thirty, Steve Biko was killed while in police custody. ![]()
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