black consciousness thought

We have defined blacks as those who are by law or tradition
politically,economically and socially discriminated against as a group in
the South Africansociety and identifying themselves as a unit in the
struggle towards therealization of their aspirations.This definition
illustrates to us a number of things:1. Being black is not a matter of
pigmentation - being black is a reflectionof a mental attitude.2. Merely
by describing yourself as black you have started on a road
towardsemancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces
that seekto use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a
subservient being.From the above observations therefore, we can see that the
term black is notnecessarily all-inclusive, i.e. the fact that we are all
not white does notnecessarily mean that we are all black