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Name: E-mail:   Printer Friendly Version  The Oppressed Mind  By
Dave Fryett  06 December, 2010  The great South African
political activist and thinker Steven Biko once said that the
greatest tool in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed. Biko's brilliance was in that he focused on raising
the consciousness of his fellow blacks by changing the way they
viewed themselves. Once their minds were purged of the racism
they had unwittingly assimilated, he reckoned,