The fact of blackness

The fact of blackness Fanon

“Their attention was a liberation, running over my body suddenly abraded into nonbeing, endowing me once more with an agility that I had thought lost"

every ontology is made unattainable in a colonized and civilized society

ontology—once it is finally admitted as leaving existence by the wayside—does not permit us to understand the being of the black man. 

I waned to come lithe and young into a world that was ours and to help build it together

“They have allowed themselves to be poisoned by the stereotype that others have of them, and they live in fear that their acts will correspond to this stereotype… we may say that their conduct is perpetually overdetermined from the inside"

Too late. Everything is anticipated, thought out, demonstrated, made the most of.  “And so it is not I who make a meaning for myself, but it is the meaning that was already there, pre-existing, waiting for me.”       —> With Faulkner, a concern with the presence or absence of the past      —> Mont Blanc & Morrison “sin is negro as virtue is white"

“I cannot go to a film without seeing myself. In the interval, just before the film starts, I wait for me. The people in the theater are watching me, examining me, waiting for me. "

race: blackness as amputation (image/png)