A moral question
Black revolutionaries like Malcolm X, Steve Biko, Henry Emomotimi Okah, Franz Fanon, Nnamdi Kanu, etc, are consistent on one point: That if, for any reason, the state refuses to protect the black man from internal violence, or finds itself incapable of protecting him, then the black man has his God-given right to defend himself by means no less proportionate. Writing under a highly circumscribed environment where he was censored, Biko never used the word “violence;” what he actually said was that the black man should defend himself “in any manner he deems fit.”
But Martin Luther King Jr and Allen Onyema, Prophets of Non-Violence, disagreed. Their approach to fighting internal violence is dialogue with the hope that the victimizer would change. Young blacks, however, seem to turn their back on King and Onyema while embracing Biko and Okah. This is because non-violence did not factor in hunger,
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