Plastics Piss on Biko's Legacy

I have been trying hard to understand the concept of Black Consciousness and more so, I am still trying to understand this concept from Steve Biko's view.

This, I do, because I have seen on many an occasion how many followers of this concept have attempted to bring it into the politics of the day. Not that this is a bad thing, but it raises questions when those who are not happy about the state of affairs use this concept to drive their narrow ideas and agendas.

Biko's BC did not promote hatred against a white people, as some who claim to be followers of Biko, have done. A guy on facebook said the tour guide who laid his life to save a tourist, when their boat capsized in Cape Town, was "dumb". His logic was that the tour guide should have let the tourist die because the tourist is not BLACK and that the tour guide would not have done the same for a Black person, so he deserved to die. When I interrogated this statement I was called names, which does not really bother me, given the fact that I, Rastafari knows more than he does.

The tone in that conversation was that Black people should offer no help to the white people, that the white person must be treated like dirt "because we are/were treated like that too by white people. This, to me, did not make sense. I failed to understand the type of a nation we are trying to be. It made me think that some scholars within our education system, especially higher education, are more stupid than they should be. I say this because many of the guys who claim alliance with Biko's BC are at universities and other sectors of higher education.

Their idea is that Blackness, as Biko saw it, should be the tool to perpetuate injustices of sorts. White people are also not helpful in this instance because, as it was when Biko lived, they still patronise the Black majority with their liberal ideologies. This, you will see everytime Zille goes to a poor area; her dancing there, her speaking that Xhosa of hers and the simplistic manner in which she implies that the lives of the poor shall be changed for the better under her rule.

But still, none of what the new followers of the BC concept say, is helping Black people achieve the liberation Biko spoke of. Hatred and insults are not representative of the Black person, but he who this is Blacker than all of us will differ on this. Hatred is not spoken of in Biko's teachings, posing the question that "Who's teachings are these guys following?" I am not trying to attack people here but I am concerned about what the youth will learn. Nkrumah, Nyerere, Selassie I, Lumumba, Kenyatta and even Sankara never had this type of Blackness. This type of Blackness, reactionary blackness, is not what Black people should be define as.
None of the African leaders I mentioned here would take seriously such consciousness as Black. This is hatred, not BC. In fact I challenge these educated fools to give us a programme of action by which they seek to liberate the Black people. Let them paint me a picture of the South Africa they envisage post-Biko.

If you ask me, many of these people piss on Biko's legacy!!!

Vela wena unesazela.