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The Black man (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠subject to a crushing objecthood. He experiences himself first as an object.

The Black man (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠subject to the fact that there is, painful as it is to accept, only one destiny. And it is white.

The Black man (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the scapegoat that bears the collective guilt for white society's myth of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement.

Colonialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and will only yield when confronted with greater violence. Only 'absolute violence' which didn't distinguish civilians could get the colonizers' attention.

Colonialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠complete when the native admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Colonialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠written into history by the colonizer not as the history of the country which he plunders but as the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

Colonialism (n.) hardly ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ever exploits the whole of a country, but only the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, leaving the rest of the colony to follow its path of under-development and poverty.

Colonialism (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠gives anything away for nothing.

Colonialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠th e production of the envious man. The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession... of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife.

Colonialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠violence in its natural state and will only yield when confronted with greater violence. Only 'absolute violence' which didn't distinguish civilians could get the colonizers' attention, expelling the colonizer and decolonizing the native mentality.