Fees Must Fall Poem by Black Consciousness Poetry BCP

Do we all have to go to prison for our fees to be paid? If education is a key to success, why is it withheld from so many impoverished people or is the intention to keep us marginalized excluded and isolated, is it not that you want the current and next generation of blue color workers, cleaners and prisoners?

If education is the key why withhold it from the impoverished majority, we too want to open doors of freedom for ourselves and the oppressed, we want to open doors of opportunity, of self determination and continued self education. We too don't want to end up where the majority of our grannies and grand dads ended up because they were unable to read and write as a result had no voice or little if any because of segregation and apartheid. Their skin worked against any way. Is it not that you also believe that blacks are mentally incapable? They are only good to be socialized into domestic workers which really are house slaves, garden boys and modern slaves which are really working in modern plantations and are field slaves. Fees must fall.

Fees must fall even when a few black bourgeoises cry 'give us opportunity to finish our certificates, diplomas, degrees, honors, masters and doctoral degrees. Do you not know that after these selected few bourgeoises have acquired their diplomas and certificates, they too will be separated from black pain of the impoverished majority at least so it seems. They too will have long necks and speak from podiums and pulpits of privilege, they too will be managers and defenders of the filthy wealthy thieves, the educated criminals and organizations and countries that perpetuates injustice and smothers justices in every way possible. If any of us do not have an opportunity to study, then none of us should have that opportunity at all. The curriculum of these institutions needs attention any way. Fees must fall.

Fees Must Fall because we too pay taxes you know and so did our parents who had no houses, no running water, flushing toilets, decent opportunities, no jobs and if any no pensions, no savings, no dignity and no land. I hope you know that it is not because they didn't work hard but they were free and cheap labour. Fees must fall because the government says there is no money to pay for education yet they have money for free circumcision and condoms, they have money for building or upgrading prisons, pay for prison uniform, food, daily services and prison education, or is it because those who help send the black man to prison are the ones running the prison business. We know that prisons are a big business and a source of free labour. I do not want to mention their houses, salaries and privileges paid to them by their old age master whiteness. Let alone fruitless expenditure.

Fees must fall. Capitalism in its current form and all those who endorse and preserve it must fall. Colonial institutions and systems must fall. White power must fall. White supremacy and all its forms must fall. White privileges must fall. The end of the world as we know must raise. The white blacks must fall. The Rothschild's must fall. The Rockefeller's must fall and all those that work for them must fall. Black power must raise and with it the condition of the blacks. South Africa must fall and Azania must raise.

|H.F Swarts|