LETTER: Clicks was violent first
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Here’s how Mao Zedong describes a revolution: “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Those who complain about the EFF’s response to Clicks as “irresponsible and violent” are perhaps not aware that Clicks was being irresponsible and violent against black people. But why are we surprised? Isn’t it the capitalists that always call on workers to tighten their belts or observe the capitalist laws in fighting capitalism?
It is against this sterile approach to the struggle that Biko warned us that they kick us and still seek to teach us how to respond to the kick. It is “irresponsible and violent” to expect black people to click like when Clicks unleashes violence on our kinky hair.
I'd understand if it was the governing party that dubbed the response against Clicks as “irresponsible and violent”, because its default position is to defend capital for fear of capital flight, or disinvestment in some rare instances.
Anda Mbikwana
Johannesburg
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Those who complain about the EFF’s response to Clicks as “irresponsible and violent” are perhaps not aware that Clicks was being irresponsible and violent against black people. But why are we surprised? Isn’t it the capitalists that always call on workers to tighten their belts or observe the capitalist laws in fighting capitalism?
It is against this sterile approach to the struggle that Biko warned us that they kick us and still seek to teach us how to respond to the kick. It is “irresponsible and violent” to expect black people to click like when Clicks unleashes violence on our kinky hair.
I'd understand if it was the governing party that dubbed the response against Clicks as “irresponsible and violent”, because its default position is to defend capital for fear of capital flight, or disinvestment in some rare instances.
Anda Mbikwana
Johannesburg
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an e-mail with your comments. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Send your letter by e-mail to letters@businesslive.co.za (mailto:letters@businesslive.co.za). Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.