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“When the barriers to a minority group’s control of itself are formidable, entrenched and part of the country’s blueprint for governance, and when those barriers surface as the predictable result of almost every occasion of franchise, we can expect to find a minority accustomed to and acceptive of its powerlessness, almost completely devoid of political energy, and liable to close down when asked to speculate about the possibility of eventually controlling some of the major issues that impact the quality of life as it experiences it. Such a group, colonized (as are we), to relinquish control of itself, accepts its own subjugation as ‘legal,’ as mandated by ‘majority rule’ and finds it difficult to even conceive of the grounding, or planning, necessary to assert the right to self-governance inherent in its humanity. For to initiate such a struggle, complex and long-ranging, requires, first, the courage; second, the intellectual freedom that only decolonized minds can bring to the table, and third: The energy and focus long-range struggle demands.”
Mari Evans
Clarity as Concept
