Monday, February 16, 2009

Too Many Idiots on Earth

Frantz Fanon's readings were quite hard to follow but I think I understand his underlying message; which is how Black people's minds work in a white world or society.
There are many important questions that should be asked that I read like what does man want?/ and what does the black man want?
Both are great questions, but it is interesting to see Fanon to go on and say that Black is not a man. Instead Fanon is trying to describe the Black as unleashing the man within.
A word that came up quite often was ZEALOUSNESS. Fanon suggests to destroy this idea if it hasn't already been destroyed in societies mind.
One thing I had trouble following was Fanon's idea that the black man wants to be white and the white man is trying to retrieve the rank of man.
I did however, like Fanon's opinions on childhood along with Nietzsche, that man should get rid of the defects from childhood, because man's misfortune is that he was a child. I think this strongly goes with Fanon's ideas that all of the vicious cycles of black and white race identity is proven to be held highest in the past, but Fanon suggests that the now or present is the one that builds the future, so him writing the book at the time he did is his message to repair the future of racism.

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