LETTER: We can’t expect whites to provide solutions to black people’s problems
The contradiction in the Charterists’ view of the PAC and DA is amazing
The contradiction in the Charterists’ view of the PAC and DA is amazing. They glibly state that “the PAC is against whites, do not vote for them”, then, “Do not vote for the DA, it is a white party”. This took me back to the Black Consciousness view of a “liberal”. (See the chapter in Steve Biko’s book I write what I like on liberals). The term liberal was used to describe white people who think they are capable of working out solutions for black problems, and their solutions are superior to solutions thought out by blacks themselves. Some of the solutions contradict the solutions worked out by black people based on black people’s first-hand experience of their own problems. Charterists, of which Julius Malema is one, accept white solutions for black problems without question, and even force white people to provide solutions to black problems and see themselves as doing things for black people. The Freedom Charter contradicted solutions espoused by African thought compiled as the pr...
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