ABSTRACT
The oppositional black culture that emerged in the context of apartheid and segregation is one of the few locations that have provided a space for the kind of decolonization that makes loving blackness possible. Racial integration in a social context where white supremacist systems are intact undermines marginal spaces of resistance by promoting the assumption that social equality can be attained without changes in the culture's attitudes about blackness and black people. Decolonized progressive black individuals are amazed by the extent to which masses of black people holds white supremacist ways of thinking, allowing this perspective to determine how they see themselves and other black people. Loving blackness as political resistance transforms our way of looking and being, and thus creates the conditions necessary for us to move against the forces of domination and death and reclaim black life.
