part of no part

“ Niggas talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you…No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not , just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us...   There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another st...

Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, the founder of the African National Congress, explained the purpose of the first conference of what was to become the ANC, in these words: “ Chiefs of royal blood and gentlemen of our race, we have gathered here to consider and discuss a scheme which my colleagues and I have decided to place before you. We have discovered that in the land of their birth, Africans are treated as hewers of wood and drawers of water. The white people of this country have formed what is known as the Union of South Africa - a union in which we have no voice in the making of laws and no part in their administration. We have called you, therefore, to this conference, so that we can together devise ways and means of forming our national union for the purpose of creating national unity and defending our rights and privileges. ” It is an irony then, that 20 years after the dawn of democracy, that Black Africans are still not afforded their rightful place in the making of laws an...