frantz fanon:
“during decolonization, certain colonized intellectuals have established a dialogue with the bourgeoisie of the colonizing country. during this period the indigenous population is seen as a blurred mass.”
“during decolonization, certain colonized intellectuals have established a dialogue with the bourgeoisie of the colonizing country. during this period the indigenous population is seen as a blurred mass.”
“the few ‘native’ personalities whom the colonialist bourgeois have chanced to encounter have had insufficient impact to alter their current perception and nuance their thinking.”
“during the period of liberation, however, the colonialist bourgeoisie frantically seeks contact with the colonized ‘elite.’ it is with this elite that the famous dialogue on values is established. when the colonialist bourgeoisie realizes it is impossible to maintain[…]”
“its domination over the colonies it decides to wage a rearguard campaign in the fields of culture, values, and technology, etc. but what we should never forget is that the immense majority of colonized peoples are impervious to such issues.”
“for a colonized people, the most essential value, because it is the most meaningful, is first and foremost the land: the land, which must provide bread and, naturally, dignity. but this dignity has nothing to do with ‘human’ dignity.”
“the colonized subject has never heard of such an ideal. all he has ever seen on his land is that he can be arrested, beaten, and starved with impunity; and no sermonizer on morals, no priest has ever stepped in to bear the blows in his place or share his bread.”
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