tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757006894427938175.post3641418592617849023..comments2023-10-20T15:27:10.238+00:00Comments on Sideview: Finding the "fit" between Biko's ideas and the Tambo path to freedomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757006894427938175.post-45422176315731707882007-09-20T15:02:00.000+00:002007-09-20T15:02:00.000+00:00FrankI have been rethinking the role of BC because...Frank<BR/><BR/>I have been rethinking the role of BC because of my work on Richard Rive and his memoir, Writing Black (1981). The approach of non-racialists like Rive to the BC movement was to criticise it as flawed because it relied on racialised thinking to mobilise and also that it had no analysis of the capitalist economic underpinnings of apartheid. You know the story. But what has become clearer to me is that perhaps while this critique of BC had validity, it also underestimated the power of BC to engage the consciousness of the oppressed at the time. I think it is incorrect to lable the Congress approach in the late 1960s and mid-1970s as non-racial as it was essentially, de facto multiracial in outlook, reflected even in the structures of the ANC. At some point non-racialism gained ascendance in ANC circles (I have no idea when), but even right till today I think racialised, "ethnic" thinking often underlies the official rhetoric of "non-racialism". And perhaps in addition non-racialism has failed to articulate the need we currently have to counter globalised apartheid and the entrenched bigotry worldwide, and at home in SA, against black people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com