The struggle for the genuine liberation of Azania and the majority of Black people in this country was grounded in this philosophy under the banner of the Black Consciousness Movement. The events of the past nine years and especially the dismal failure of the current government in the past five years to deliver freedom, liberation and dignity for black people is eloquent evidence of the need for black consciousness as a philosophy of struggle for the majority of black people. Above all, black people themselves who were in branches of society where they were supposedly in charge and in leadership performed pathetically by all standards. There is no doubting the fact that there is a need for a deeper and more fundamental liberation of black people, if we are to govern and manage meaningfully as well as to interact meaningfully with their white compatriots. For that we need a big dose of black consciousness.
Black consciousness is as important for white people as it is for blacks.
Only those whites that know they can no longer patronise black people can meaningfully live and work with black people in an atmosphere of genuine freedom and mutual trust. It is not by ceasing to recognise and relate to blacks as blacks that their racism will disappear. That is the non-racial approach that begs the fundamental question of our time, the question of race and racism. Rather it is by encountering and exposing the blackness of black people in all its dimensions as defined and presented by blacks themselves that they will meaningfully and with integrity walk the path of freedom with blacks. This is the anti-racist approach to which the Socialist Party of Azania calls all our people.