More than a statement to the world at large or even to South Africa's black population, this declaration is about whites coming to terms with themselves, Mr. Niehaus said.
He insists, however, that Lincoln's inclusion of blacks within the Declaration of Independence was meant surreptitiously to subvert the philosophical underpinning not simply of slavery but of racism as well.
Savea's second – following a lineout from another England failure to take a restart – and two by Aaron Smith set up one of those second halves of incomparable cruelty, in which the All Blacks make a declaration of intent about more serious matters ahead.
But it has evolved from Mr. Bush's black-and-white declaration in 2001 that countries are "with us or against us" in battling terrorism, to his decision a year later to elevate military pre-emption — and by extension, regime change — to a defense strategy, right up there with containment and deterrence.
A 1967 "Declaration of Black Churchmen" demanded "the removal of all images which suggest that God is white".
Bring the Noise's opening declaration – "Too black, too strong" – was taken from Malcolm X's Message to the Grassroots speech, in which he attacked white leaders for diluting the 1963 march on Washington: "It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong.
Even more tellingly, in a modern update of the 60's declaration that "Black Is Beautiful," her seductive song "Brown Skin," a tribute to a lover, was heard as a paean to black men and women whose dark coloring and broad features, like Ms. Arie's own, don't conform to white standards of beauty.
On the side of one orange seven-storey block of flats, the words "humanity is not for sale" are painted on the wall in turquoise, along with the declaration, in black capital letters, that "there won't be a country that is distant as long as there is a friend nearby".
Yes, no black men signed the Declaration.
Our mental models are trained by generations of faulty data, and it's created a culture where the declaration that "Black Lives Matter" is absurdly controversial.
