WHICH WAY FOR PAN AFRICANISM: THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET?
Malcolm X’s insightful speech ‘THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET’ is as relevant today as it…
Malcolm X’s insightful speech ‘THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET’ is as relevant today as it…
Ever since the commencement of student protests, beginning with Wits university on Wednesday the 14th…
First of all, I want Comrade Seshibe and his children and all his relatives to…
This is not a reaction but a response to Mr. Barney Mthombothi’s article which appeared…
1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PROCESSES…… South Africa is an integral part of the African continent;…
Last month it was that time of the year when South Africa and the world…
Half a century ago on the 22 November 1963, the President of the most powerful…
The African people’s struggle for liberation started in the 1400’s when the continent was invaded…
As the sixteenth year of ‘freedom’ ushered in, one sadly observed the evolution of media/press reportage over the years and concur that indeed the media is free only to those who own it. The media also shapes national culture and sets the limits of national discourse and reflects the interests of the ruling class.
The SABC as an institution is pathetic. It is partisan and animated by ideology. With corporate-controlled media consolidating its foothold on media ownership as well as spreading its tentacles globally, news content altered dramatically. We are continuously being fed a steady diet of rehashed intellectual pap. Almost invariably issues are perfunctorily dealt with and treated peremptorily coupled with un-insightful political debates.
“The wolf and the fox are both enemies of humanity; both are canine; both humiliate and mutilate their victims. Both have the same objectives, but differ only in methods.” – Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, Addis Ababa, July 17, 1964
The single most deadly calamity to have befallen black people throughout the globe in this 21st century can be found in the person of Barack Obama, that rhetorical and deadly fox in sheep’s clothing. Indeed, humanity as a whole is the unsuspecting prey of this current black-faced head of the bloody, avaricious, corporate U.S. Empire.
Long before the devastating physical earthquake struck the tiny black nation Haiti, the debilitating earthquake of slavery, colonization, and revised 21st century neo-colonization was unleashed upon the peoples of Haiti (and the world wide African Diaspora) by the United States, France, Canada, and its additional concomitant partners in deceit, greed, and economic, political, and social / cultural subjugation. It is this ongoing earthquake which we must forthrightly and uncompromisingly also address. It is this ongoing earthquake that is shattering the very psychological, physical, and political existence of black people around the world.
In less than a historical heart beat the very meaning of the word blackness has been distorted into definitively supporting the economic greed and bloodlust of the 1%of humankind that exploits the needs, hopes, and human rights of the rest of humanity. Nothing could be more despicable or dangerous to this planet collectively and black people in particular.