Robert Sobuke remainsfor me one of the leading lights in Africanism: Sobukwes antagonism to multi-racialism – as opposed to non-racialism – and his Africanist philosophy came directly out of his appreciation of the absurdity of race as a real thing. He set out this view in a famous speech in 1959: The structure of the body of man provides evidence to prove the biological unity of the human species. All scientists agree that there is no race that is superior to another, and there is no race that is inferior to others. The Africanists take the view that there is only one race to which we all belong, and that is the human race. In our vocabulary therefore, the word race, as applied to man, has no plural form. He continued: Against multi-racialism we have this objection, that the history of South Africa has fostered group prejudices and antagonisms, and if we have to maintain the same group exclusiveness, parading under the term of multi-racialism, we shall be transporting to the new Africa these very antagonisms and conflicts. Further, multi-racialism is in fact a pandering to European bigotry and arrogance. It is a method of safeguarding white interests, implying as it does, proportional representation irrespective of population figures. In that sense it is a complete negation of democracy. Read more: mediaclubsouthafrica/land-and-people/97-twenty-years-of-freedom/3725-robert-sobukwe-south-africa-s-non-racial-africanist#ixzz3MQjLeAVq
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