Black Power

Introductory observations

Racist!

It is an easy insult

Black people questioning our oppression by White people are racist

We should not speak about our oppression

We are not supposed to accuse anyone

Or we will be labeled racist

By the racists themselves

The end of juridical apartheid in 1994 brought hope to many, especially those who had suffered centuries of racial subjugation and exploitation. The much vaunted rainbow nation and the narrative of a non-racial society spelled a new beginning.

On June 16, 1966, the recently-elected chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture, was arrested and taken to jail in Greenwood, Mississippi, for refusing to obey an order given by local police.

If I were to write an open letter to Muhammad Ali now,  my tears would be the ink with which I write. It would be a letter of love and admiration. Of confusion and anger.

Was Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”?

Ali told British actress Joanna Lumley in 1989 that it was all a publicity stunt to promote his fights.

When “Cassius Clay” (as he then was) entered the ring to fight Sonny Liston for the World Heavyweight title in February 1964, I was afraid that Sonny Liston would kill him.

“Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali––a free black name.”

Sobantu, you say: "Black people can never be racist – we never had the tools or power to institutionalize racial oppression...." and..."black people do not have the resources to impose socio–economic structures