I am a black DA leader — do not whitewash me, my ability or ideas!
The media and analysts portray black liberal DA members as ‘puppets of the whites’, but breaking news: the DA is the only party that doesn’t ask me what I am, but asks me what I think
In its analysis of the DA’s adoption of a new economic justice policy and the party’s renewed commitment to the principle of non-racialism, the SA media and political analysts, many of whom are white, have revealed a deeply reductionist and patronising attitude towards black voters and black leaders within the DA that is beginning to border on blatant racism.
It deeply frustrates and offends me that the media continues to refer to black DA leaders and members not as individuals capable of autonomous thought and agency within the party, but rather as helpless calves separated from the herd of group-think and racial nationalism, the doctrine expected of us by those whose thoughts and opinions never go beyond what they see in the mirror. ..
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