By Tshepo S. Molebatsi
In this vexatious era where it is rather ideal and admirable to criticize than to elucidate knowledge, deterred and silenced, one can only wish to argue without ever coming off as ostentatious but if ever, one’s need to pedantries as a means to police accuracy in a political dialogue can be forgiven, I too would wish to partake and criticize the critics.
You see, there are no absolutions and certitudes in politics, only the theories we invent and at times, very rare times – we are right on the money but at most times, we are consistently wrong in a sense that, the commentary space of politics is a complicated forum – so less truths and so much fixed truths insofar that a given explanandum, futile in its probe, will always drift roundabout a less truth and leaving a huge gap of an explanandum empty and within that gap, we fill in the fixed truth.
In that premise, now in retrospect, I would rather I posit from where I am more forgiving and far-left with my curiosity as to who was a sell-out and how, aligning and realigning that probe with the (then) unforgiving scourges of a systematic suppression, which we historical bystanders seem to always overlook when we title and dress black leaders with all kind of demeaning names, overlooking a rational, realistic and pragmatic fact that, prior to democracy, the only way to achieve anything effective, was to undress the blind courage of outlaws and martyrs to brisk and improvise along on a much prolific approach of a hotep, and that essentially meant a reciprocal handshake with the most cruel and conniving, most importantly, the most despotic.
The black historical epoch has, as any tail of history, been distorted to degrade and denigrate a political culture of black liberation as inconsistent and factionalized (comprising of heedless backstabbers), ultimately questioning the moral standards of black people, and because of those less truths and fixed truths, Every black leader to ever contribute greatly, is as revered as he is reviled, understandably so, because the self-assertiveness of political consciousness is molded on a robust, unforgiving and inexorable truth but that truth have to be attributed by demands which frankly, we hardly consider, that is, the truth have to always complement and be in rapport with rationality, realism and pragmatism. If not, then keep your truth to yourself and refrain from ever calling any hotep of a black leader to ever contribute, a sell-out.
By Tshepo S. Molebatsi
