10/03/2024
THE “GOOD BLACKS” VERSUS “THE BAD BLACKS” - WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
The most effective and often downplayed institutional lever that can catapult one aspiring leader over another, irrespective of their qualifications, is their access to and acceptability within the gatekeeping class.
These political gatekeepers are, in the Black diaspora – mainstream media and money and in Africa - the backing of Western and other world powers. Lately a dichotomy of leadership styles, mostly fueled by these influential gatekeepers, has emerged within the global Black political class pitting the “Good Blacks” against the “Bad Blacks”.
The “Good Blacks” are often liberal, accommodationist, integrationists, internationalists, and capitalists, who see themselves as pragmatists and often tend to get favorable press. The “Good Black” favors integration at all costs, disavow Black nationalism; works within the framework of established political power and are very hesitant to do anything that might upset the interest of the dominant political groups within society.
The “Bad Blacks” are passionate idealogues, Black nationalists, nonconformists, social segregationists, angry activists who are sick and tired of the global status quo that has stagnated the emancipation and development of Black communities. Concepts such as: Self-Determination, Group Economics, Nationalism, Socialism and Pan-Africanism, are some of the tenets that the “Bad Blacks” live by.
Lately the “Bad Blacks” message of self-actualization has been breaking through the gatekeepers’ mass communication firewalls and resonating with a younger, dynamic, global Black audience.
If both sides mean well, albeit within their silos, whose side will you choose to join? Or rather, should we be working to bring the two sides together for our greater good? Please tune in to OUTLOOK AFRICA, a socio-political discussion show exclusively on FEVA TV, as we dissect this topic with our panel of experts.
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