The Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader, South Africa’s most influential and radical student leader in the 1970s, law student, banned person, political prisoner. Biko was killed in detention. - SAHistory
It seeks to demonstrate the lie that black is an aberration from the "normal", which is white. It is a manifestation of a new realisation that seeking to run away from themselves and to emulate the white man, blacks are insulting the intelligence of whoever created them black.
As he once said "Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being" - Bantu Stephen Biko.
Black Consciousness therefore forces cognisance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating black people. Our generation who have read about him and his philosophical stance, they still recognises Biko as one of the best leaders in the country. He is still given that other Azanian leaders, Like O.R Tambo and Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, to name a few, are given. That means makes me smike. I always smile to see other young people like myself appreciating the contribution made by Steve Biko. Knowing that there are still 'conscious', who knows that to go forward we need o learn from the past. I smile :")) because I see a bright future for our country, Azania (South Africa).
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