What's in this black shit expresses that deep feeling of wanting to fight and trying to articulate what one does when one fights.

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Serote explained the origin of his famous poem "What's in This Black 'Shit'" during a 1989 interview. He said the poem grew out of witnessing the daily humiliations of apartheid, including pass laws and the treatment of Black South Africans.

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