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 African
society and identifying themselves as a unit in the struggle towards the
realization 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 reflection
of a mental attitude.
2. Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards
emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek
to 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 not
necessarily all-inclusive, i.e. the fact that we are all not white does not
necessarily mean that we are all black