![]() Thus, in the ultimate analysis no white person can escape being part of the oppressor camp. ![]() The question often comes up “What can I do?” If you ask him to do something like stopping to use segregated facilities or dropping out of varsity to work at menial jobs like all blacks or defying and denouncing all provisions that make him privileged, you always get the answer “But that’s unrealistic!” While this may be true, it only serves to illustrate the fact that no matter what a white man does, the colour of his skin – his passport to privilege – will always put him miles ahead of the black man. In the essay ‘White Skins Black Souls?’ Biko writes:Ī game at which the liberals have become masters is that of deliberate evasiveness. This is because SASO saw white liberals, first and foremost, as white people who were interfering in the affairs of black people, and who went as far as to also prescribe the ways in which black people ought to respond to the problem of anti-black white racism in South Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() As president and head of publication of South African Students’ Organisation (SASO), Steve Biko was entrusted with the task of clarifying the political position of the organisation, which, in its opposition to white racism, can be summarized as a critique of the white liberal establishment and a critique of black people who want a seat at the white man’s table. ![]()
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