The observations and the conclusions Fanon made are typically valid to the Antilles. This essay, then pinpoints specific areas that prove this particular thesis of this renowned writer. These areas are in reflection of what is in his book. The Negro and the language, about the woman of color as well as the man of white color, also the book talk about the alleged reliance complexities of the colonized and the actuality of the being a Black, the acknowledgment of the Negroes and the psychopathology of the Blacks. In this regards, Fanon streamlined these points and drew excellent observations and conclusions out of how the Negroes were going through in the hands of the whites not only in Europe, but the same was extended to the African continent during the reign Colonialism and Colonial administration.
At first, Fanon has that harshness and anger to the black man of whom Fanon claims that the black man should be proud of himself. His anger as seen is later not directed to the black man but it is due to the fact that, the white man expects the black man not to compare himself at all with the white. Fanon is disturbed by this inferiority which he refers it to as epidermalization. The black man’s ego collapses once he tastes the experience of the white world. The black man has an experience of sensitization where as described by Fanon his self esteem evaporates and he no longer is self motivated. Fanon continues to say that this happens as the black man tries to emulate the white man.
Fanon talks about a situation whereby the Black man speaks the language of the Europeans. He is strongly condemning this by saying that this is in proportional to the dark mastery of the European language, the language which is rooted in the US and has extended to other parts of the world. English being the major one Fanon attributes the logic behind this that the Negroes are just the subject of the whites, and indeed their language can cause little or no impact to the whites. He saw that the blacks don't have an option since their problems are presented to them, therefore, how can they pose and boast of their black identity yet in the real sense the whites considered the black language as being in absence? .
Being an inbuilt citizen in Algeria Fanon came to conclude that at what need can the Black language be of any significance yet when the French landed in the West African states to colonize they colonized the African languages too. It is through this fact that he concluded that the black refers to the non-west in general terms. The inferiority seeds cultivated by the non-west in the USA, therefore, laid the firm foundation offer the issue of white cannibalism over their subjects. This particular extreme of colonial alienation made Fanon observe that the Antilles must have searched for the conceptual forms of the social antagonism about the colonialism. His background is based on the differences in the social and economic status in the society which depicts the words of Karl Marxist of those who have and the haves not. Additionally, Fanon came to analyze under the dark race that the edge of these modes has been restored in the psychoanalytic framework which illuminates the racism effects and the pain of pleasures.
Moreover, Fanon points out that out of his soul and across the zebra stripping off his mind are the thoughts of suddenly changing to be a white man. He thought of a feeling to be thought of being a white the case which under the racism era was supposed to be arrested. The reason behind this scene is that the character he uses hopes to be loved by the White woman, yet he's a black. It is because he saw the essence of being changed by this white woman to realize who he is, the thought which was just a dump nuisance to the White ladies. He observed that by marrying a white, he can be engaging to the beauty and the whiteness of the white. This writer talks of a coal-black Negro in France shouting at the moment of orgasm because Victor Schoelcher managed to persuade the third party to end the aspects of slavery and instill the areas of co-relation between the black men and the white women. Another character, Jean, who is a Negro and born in the Antilles is a European in characters but black in color and nature. He cannot understand his race while the blacks too don't get him prove that the blacks have no option since if they are not known by the whites who are they to understand themselves?
But the fact here remains that Jean is black, and he has to bear the life of solitude since irrespective of this he's a thinker such that when a white woman tries to seduce him, he replies to her that it cannot happen. He proves to white women that there is a need for courage since if the relationship process takes place, the woman can be a talk to the community that Jean cannot entertain the mockery. The author personality in the case cannot emerge to be the wished one since another orphan character is compelled to study in a vacation where he meets with his fellow students who are whites and are forcing this orphan into the habit of the loneliness. This gives the white students room to be using him as a tool for research and education. The author talks of the ills the black whites are subjected to, the aggressions which are ill. These illustrations from his work depict that not only the Antilles passed through this discrimination alone, but the same extended to the many parts of the United States that racism was in existence, and human rights were not respected.
Nevertheless, the woman of color and the white man is also a clear indication that racism was all over in the era when the book was published. In the book the relation between the woman of color and the European man was a problem for the author. He talked about the culture which at all was unattainable before one feels the inferiority in the blood. But the case with the writer is different in that he ascertains that the woman of the color is never respected in the eyes of the white European. The story says that if the European man loves a colored lady, still there are lots of delusions which lingers in the Western man’s mind. The story goes on, a woman who was named Mayotte Capecia, who loves a white man, and she totally submits everything to him.
The man is her lord, where she asks and demands nothing except to be given a chance to feel the white man's whiteness irrespective of whether the white man is handsome or ugly. All she says is that the Europeans have blue eyes with the blond hair the characteristics she depicts to be of her interest. To the author he sees this from the point of view that the Antilles only look at the vanity traits which he concluded to be; Blue eyes which are used to frighten the Negroes. The same has been felt in America and other parts of the world even to present lives. Additionally, the author says that since the whites are the masters and more so the males, they can give him a notion of sleeping with many black women yet the case will be different when the black man could have been in an engagement with the white women. This goes in the most countries, where the numbers of the hybrids are still surprising.
Nonetheless, Fanon speaks out of the fact of blackness, not only in the relationship to the Antilles but to all black people with black accent and origin. He says in his book that he came into the world with the will to identify himself, but in the process, he found out that he was the object in the midst of other primary objects. He observed that the blacks had been subjected to the belief that they are stumbling, and his movements and attitudes are worthless before the eyes of their subjects. He says that as long as the black man is all alone, he will have no event aside from in circumstances where there are inward clashes attached to his own. This, according to him is a diplomatic process which can give room to the black to learn from the whites experiences and in the process can come to understand his wellbeing. In this regards, the author says that not only the Antilles subject to their blackness but their black nature should be about the white man culture. He says that the black man in the eyes of the white has no metaphysics resistance of his own. Though he has had little metaphysics still, the black man has been denied the access to his customs, a case which in the African continent was deeply rooted during the time of colonialism. In the twentieth century, the black man has not yet identified the degree of his inferiority.
The fact here according to Fanon reveals that in America the Negroes pushed by all means the need for equality and after its impacts were felt the same extended to Africa on the need for having their nationalism to understand themselves. In the Antilles, there was a little gap between the mulattoes and the niggers. Fanon was satisfied with these differences which, according to him were not only based on dramatization but indeed a fact. On one occasion he had to meet the whites, but the approach only left him with many burdens as compared to when he had opted not to attend any. These observations challenged the whole world since he said that the man of color will encounter a lot of difficulties in his growth to reach self-awareness and consciousness thus concluded that the body is in the atmosphere of uncertainty.
In conclusion, it is evident that this book by Fanon depicts a clear picture of Negroes in the world during the 19th and 20th centuries has been looked upon as the beings who are unarguable, savages, illiterates, and even the brutes, but according to Fanon, he says these illustrations were not meant to be. This myth he says must be destroyed at all costs. This is because the world has to exercise the human rights, dignity and freedom observance. He stated that equality should be the key where free interaction between the people should be enhanced.
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