Talk:Black Consciousness Movement

History
Black concisous was a philosophy based on the belief that liberation of black can only take place on the sharks of infrecrioty and fear are removed. Black man should not wait for the White man to determine their future for them but out to arrange their own political companies and each other gain freedom. it was an altitude rather a political movement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.245.114.216 (talk) 17:48, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * introduction of black consciousness movement 105.245.169.220 (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

B.C.M History
The Black Consciousness Movement (B.C.M.) was an influential actor during the 1970s that challenged South African government and had strong influence on South African politics because of its central theme of race. Part of the insight of the Black Consciousness Movement was in understanding that, black liberation would not only come from imagining and fighting for structural political changes, as older movements like the ANC did, but also from psychological transformation in the minds of black people themselves. This analysis suggested that to take power, black people had to believe in the value of their blackness. That is, if black people believed in democracy, but did not believe in their own value, they would not truly be committed to gaining power. The definition of race by the B.C.M. was inclusive, it did not discriminate against other people of color; in fact, it extended its definition to include Indian and Colored people whose rights were hindered by the system of apartheid. However, professor at American University and author, David Hirschmann, would argue that the B.C.M was actually a “stepchild of apartheid”[i]. Supporting Hirschmann’s argument is the main caveat to the B.C.M’s definition of what it meant to be “black”. Their definition excluded Black policemen and other officers of color who enforced apartheid because the movement saw them as an extension of the enemy, and therefore, those people lost their “right to be black”.

[i] Hirschmann, David. “The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.” The Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 1990, p.3. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/160899. Nicolechristina2024 (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

The black consciousness movement 1970s
Explain how black consciousness influenced the revival of protests in south Africa in the 1970s 197.184.180.30 (talk) 15:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

History
was the black consciousness movement successful in challenging the apartheid of regime in the 1970s 41.144.32.244 (talk) 09:23, 25 May 2024 (UTC)