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In response to his dilemma, the narrator begins to run out of options. Consequently, the contingency of black life in a white supremacist society permeates the narrator as a condition of all-encompassing anxiety. The narrator swings back and forth between self-loathing and pleas of understanding to white society, leading him to “becoming a nervous wreck” (98). Filled with “Shame and self-contempt,” the narrator tells us how “I slip into corners; I keep silent; all I want is to be anonymous, to be forgotten” (96). And yet, in other moments, he “wanted to rationalize the world and show the white man he was mistaken” (98). At times, the narrator insists that all people are equal, and therefore “Reason was assured of victory”; however, even as he “reintegrated the brotherhood of man” in his mind, he is “soon disillusioned” in how such a “brotherhood” was impossible (99).

As Fanon’s narrative dialectically unfolds, the narrator painfully learns that his problem is not rooted in individual prejudice, as his liberal friends insist: “We can only hope it will soon disappear” (97). He finally realizes that racial alienation is an objective social relation, and that his anxiety arises from this fact. Thus, “armed solely with reason, there is nothing more neurotic than contact with the irrational” (98). Idealistic and subjective appeals to “equality,” “justice,” and “reason” in an objectively white supremacist society lead nowhere. Criticizing this society from the standpoint of a principle that has no objective basis ends in misdiagnosing the source of one’s own “neurosis.”

Only when the narrator directly confronts the material conditions of racial existence is he able to move forward in resolving his alienation. The chapter began with a street scene in which a white woman and her child call out, “Look! A Negro!” (89). This moment of racialization is not simply an act of naming, as if language on its own constituted material reality, but an expression of the material reproduction of the race relation. However, whereas before the narrator simply internalized the moment, or attempted to rationalize it, he now acts upon this reality in order to change it: “The handsome Negro says, ‘Fuck you,’ madame.’ Her face colored with shame. At last I was freed from my rumination. I realized two things at once: I had identified the enemy and created a scandal” (94). The word “ruminate” emphasizes the contemplative, passive character of the narrator up to this point. Therefore, Fanon implies that the static, objectified condition of the narrator is shattered only through the practical act of negating the power of the white woman – and by extension the reproduction of white supremacist social relations as a whole – to reproduce his own objectification.

White supremacy’s denial of human recognition is premised on the materiality of the racial relation. In his struggle, the narrator now understands that he must interrupt the reproduction of this relation in order to live: “The black man is a toy in the hands of the white man. So in order to break the vicious circle, he explodes” (119). Therefore, “I made up my mind, since it was impossible to rid myself of an innate complex, to assert myself as a BLACK MAN. Since the Other was reluctant to recognize me, there was only one answer: to make myself known” (95). Here, the racial relation is turned inside out to negate the structuring and material power of whiteness, and the conditions of black existence become the basis for a struggle of self-emancipation.

On the basis of immediate racial existence an inversion occurs. In Fanon’s narrative immediate existence becomes the condition for self-activity that struggles to “explode” objectification. Such a leap is central to Fanon’s thinking, which he expands upon in the context of the anti-colonial struggle in The Wretched of the Earth:

Decolonization never goes unnoticed, for it focuses on and fundamentally alters being, and transforms the spectator crushed to a nonessential state into a privileged actor, captured in a virtually grandiose fashion by the spotlight of History. It infuses a new rhythm, specific to a new generation of men, with a new language and a new humanity. Decolonization is truly the creation of new men. But such a creation cannot be attributed to a supernatural power: The “thing” colonized becomes a man through the very process of liberation.[15]

The object is transformed into a subject and works upon the conditions of its existence to the extent that it disrupts and alters prevailing social relations. Through this inversion the black subject begins to realize itself by turning the world into its object and making it subject to its will. Like Marx, Fanon traces a movement in which the object in-itself becomes a subject for-itself. The fetishized racial body is no longer an expression of an eternal, natural essence, or a symptom of a false history, but the basis for a powerful negation of existing relations of race. It is on this ground that the capacity for a truly practical consciousness of race, and its self-abolition, emerges.

~ Excerpt from Fanon and the Theory of Race by Hifi

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Follow me for my niche memes that only 6.7 people relate to

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I’m in tears 😭

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“What can I do to help Syria?”

Well, after educating yourself and advocating for the rights of the Syrian people in their fight for freedom against a brutal dictatorship as well as naming and holding accountable those who aid the Assad regime such as Iran, Hezbollah and Russia among others, *breathes*, you can help by donating to any of the organisations/groups listed below. 

These groups mainly help on the ground in Syria providing aid; be it medical or psychological as well as food and clothes to those in need.

SAMS Foundation: the foundation works with Syrian American health care professionals and operates 106 medical facilities throughout Syria

Doctors Without Borders (also known as MSF): the organisation provides front-line medical treatment as well as providing drugs, medical supplies and equipment

Questscope: the organisation’s work is mostly centered on providing immediate trauma support and psychosocial counseling

Save the Children: the organisation is on the ground in Syria and in refugee communities providing children and their families with warm clothes, shelters, clean water and emergency care

Syrian Civil Defense (also known as The White Helmets): they are about 3,000 neutral, impartial and humanitarian Syrian volunteers who operate as first responders in rebel-held areas across the country. They were recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Karam Foundation: the organisations is focused on educational opportunities for Syrian children, currently raising funds to rebuild schools in Syria.

NuDay Syria: the organisation’s mission focuses on bringing housing and food to displaced families with single mothers or wounded family members. They are especially concerned with the lack of safe shelter and living for single mothers with daughters.

Hand in Hand for Syria: the organisation provides aid including food, clothing, water, sanitation and crucial medical assistance 

According to the United Nations, there are almost 14 million Syrian refugees around the world (so far) in need of humanitarian aid. The groups below are mainly focused on helping Syrian refugees:

Migrant Offshore Aid Station: this charity exists to save children like Alan Kurdi, with a fleet of rescue boats patrolling the Mediterranean to save migrants lost at sea.

Refugees Welcome: dubbed as a kind of “Airbnb for refugees” this German nonprofit matches people with spare rooms with refugees in need of housing. If you don’t have a spare bed in Germany.

The Worldwide Tribe in Calais: a group of social activists documenting stories in the Calais migrant camp, they also raise relief funds.  

Small Projects Istanbul: the initiative provides classes and cultural enrichment and scholarships to Syrian children in Turkey.

International Medical Corps: they run a service center for Syrian refugees that provides medical care, classes and job training.

Medical Teams International: the organisation focuses on health and dental care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. 

Mercy Corps: the group provides direct aid to Syrian refugees in the form of food and supplies, and by increasing access to clean water and sanitation, shelters, and safe spaces and activities for children

Shelterbox: the group has been providing emergency shelter and supplies to families affected by the Syrian crisis in Iraq Kurdistan, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, including clothing, stoves and, water filters.

UNICEF: the UN agency focuses on assisting Syrian children by providing healthcare, nutrition, immunization, water and sanitation, and classes.

Oxfam: the nonprofit provides aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan such as clean water, sanitation services, and hygiene education to help ward of cholera and other intestinal diseases.

Yes, donating won’t stop barrel bombs from falling on besieged civilian areas (that comes by being vocal about Assad’s crimes) but it can definitely help create a start.

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The full report is at the link!

The year of 2017 witnessed an upward surge in human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir as compared with last year, even though Kashmir valley was gripped in a mass uprising following Burhan Wani’s killing. In the graph of killings, the year 2017 witnessed a total of 451 killings, which included civilians, militants and armed forces.  

 The mass uprising of 2016, contrary to government claims, carried forward into 2017 with widespread student protests witnessed in almost every district of the valley following armed forces’ assault on students in Pulwama Degree College in April. Hundreds of students were injured in clashes with the armed forces and many were arrested. Schools and colleges of the valley remained shut for many days and in some cases even for weeks during this cycle of protests. The student protests were preceded by an unprecedented Election Day violence on April 9, when at least 8 civilians were shot dead by armed forces personnel in Budgam and Ganderbal during the Srinagar by-election. On the day of the by-election in Srinagar constituency in April, a civilian was first tortured and then used as a human shield by an Army major in Beerwah, after he had cast his vote, causing widespread condemnation and media coverage of the event. The use of pellet guns against civilian protestors continues unabated in Kashmir, with fresh cases of pellet injuries reported throughout the year.

 The year also witnessed a few incidents of enforced or involuntary disappearances in Kupwara, Pulwama, and Poonch Districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

 The announcement of Operation All Out by Indian army in June 2017 has so far resulted in the killing of 217 militants, the highest in the last 8 years. The frequency of encounters against militants has also resulted in what has been termed ‘encounter-site civilian killings’ in which at least 19 civilians have been shot dead by armed forces personnel.

 The fate of government probes ordered into the four cases of civilian killings in 2016 has expectedly followed the same pattern as the other probes ordered by the government in the past. In the high profile case of Tufail Matoo, who was shot dead in 2010, the government has refused to share the findings of the Koul Commission report with the public, least of all with those who participated in the formation of the report and gave testimonies to the one-man commission, which was constituted by Omar Abdullah government to probe the civilian killings of 2010 and assign responsibility for the killings.

 The much-abused practice of administrative detention in the form of Public Safety Act (PSA) continued to be used as a mechanism by the government to curtail and curb dissent. In last three years, by government’s own admission in September, as many as 1059 PSA dossiers have been prepared against political activists and youth accused of stone-throwing.

 Media and freedom of expression continue to be under assault in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2017, as many as 08 incidents of assault against journalists were reported in the valley, including the arrest of photojournalist Kamran Yousuf by India’s National Investigating Agency (NIA) in September. Yousuf still continues to be in jail in New Delhi. The NIA has arrested many political activists and Hurriyat leaders since August who they accuse of orchestrating anti-India protests in the valley, though charges are yet to be filed. Internet and social media continue to be the easy victims of government’s assault on freedom of expression, with frequent bans and gag orders becoming a routine practice. In December, the government in its 18-page order directed its employees to not post ‘political content’ on their private social media pages, sending a message that the government is intent on curtailing any discussion of the political and human rights situation in the valley.

 In October 2017 the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) again urged the government to conduct investigations into the presence of 2080 unmarked and mass graves in twin district of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu province. The government, as before, refuses to act on the recommendation.

 This year a new phenomenon of braid and hair chopping was witnessed, where the hair and braids of women in different parts of the valley were chopped off. As many as 150 cases of braid and hair chopping were reported in the valley. The phenomena created mass scare and confusion in Kashmir valley, leading to protests and clashes between civilians and government forces – in which one person lost his life and several others got injured.

 Torture continues to be the most ignored and under-reported subject in Jammu and Kashmir. This year, a few incidents of torture were reported, which included the mass assault on Kashmiri prisoners at Tihar jail in November.

 India continues to refuse access to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Kashmir for ascertaining human rights violations. This year in the month of March, the UN High Commissioner reiterated his demand to visit Kashmir which was refused by India. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team members and various other human rights activists and journalists have been repeatedly denied visas for visiting Kashmir. One such glaring case is of Edward Paul Comiti, a French journalist who visited Kashmir on a business visa but was arrested by the police and later discharged by the court. This denial of access to UN delegates or denying visas to human rights activists and journalists only illustrates that the Government of India is scared of accurate information about widespread rights violations in Kashmir being disseminated.

 Violations at the ceasefire line continue to claim lives of civilians. This year at least 13 civilians lost their lives due to cross LOC firing and shelling.  

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Not to start drama but y'all can keep Anderson Cooper’s video about Haiti - the comment about mother nature punishing Haiti is flat out false. The devestation resulting from the natural disasters that have struck Haiti in the last decade is the direct result of US/Western management of economic and political affairs: the opening of American textile sweatshops in Port-au-prince is what attracted countryside Haitians to move to the capital leading to its ‘overpopulation’ resulting in the earthquake being as catastrophic as it was (the southernmost parts of Haiti where the earthquake first touched did not face nearly the same devestation as the capital where, to this day, the presidential palace remains not yet reconstructed; the mismanagement of recovery efforts by the Clintons at this point is a well known tale; UN peacekeepers poisoned thousands more with cholera, a disease not seen on the island in over a century, while raping Haitian women and trafficking Haitian children; Clinton’s economic policy of American into the Haitian economy led to the devestation of the country’s agriculture forcing many to migrate to the capital or deforest the mountainsides to turn trees into charcoal. This deforestation is what has made hurricane seasons particularly deadly on that side of the island resulting in floods and mudslides; we don’t even need to go into how, with the exception of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, most Haitian presidents/leaders have been US installed/backed puppets. The narrative that Haiti’s woes are the result of haphazard natural disasters - which fail to even account for the role of climate change in the intensification of these - is lazy considering the US has been strongly meddling in Haitian affairs for over a century now. While it warms my heart to see heartwarming, positive representations of Haiti reaching millions of Americans in the wake of Trump’s ‘shithole country’ comment glossing over the US’s role in making Haiti the shithole that it is just won’t fly with me.

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If Latin America had not been pillaged by the U.S. capital since its independence, millions of desperate workers would not now be coming here in such numbers to reclaim a share of that wealth; and if the United States is today the world’s richest nation, it is in part because of the sweat and blood of the copper workers of Chile, the tin miners of Bolivia, the fruit pickers of Guatemala and Honduras, the cane cutters of Cuba, the oil workers of Venezuela and Mexico, the pharmaceutical workers of Puerto Rico, the ranch hands of Costa Rica and Argentina, the West Indians who died building the Panama Canal, and the Panamanians who maintained it.

Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (via neruda-bro)

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The ‘victim’ approach to the study of white women in the slave formation, therefore, has severe limitations… while white males were the predominant owners of slaves in the plantation sector, the same cannot be said for the urban sector. White women were generally the owners of small properties, rather than large estates, but their small properties were more proportionately stocked with slaves than the large, male owned properties. In 1815, white women owned about 24 percent of the slaves in St Lucia; 12 per cent of the slaves on properties of more than 50 slaves, and 48 per cent of the properties with less than 10 slaves. In Barbados in 1817, less than five of the holdings of 50 slaves or more were owned by white women, but they owned 40 percent of the properties with less than 10 slaves… White women also owned more female slaves than male slaves. The extensive female ownership of slaves in the towns was matched by the unusually high proportion of females in the slave population; female slave owners owned more female slaves than male slave owners…. From these data the image that emerges of the white female slaveowner is that she was generally urban, in possession of less than ten slaves, the majority of whom were female. That female slaveowners generally owned female slaves, indicates the nature of enterprises, and hence labour regimes, managed and owned by white women. It is reasonable, then, to argue that any conceptualization of urban slavery, especially with reference to the experiences of enslaved black women, should proceed with an explicit articulation of white women are principal slaveowners.

excerpt from Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society by Hilary McD Beckles  (via daniellemertina)

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Pro-imperialism even exists in former colonized countries like one time I went back to visit Vietnam (where I'm originally from) and some viet students I met there told me that Vietnam would have been better off being colonized by the US and wishes the US had never have left. If so, we wouldn't have been this poor. And my mind was just blown.

Frantz Fanon talks about how tempting it is for colonized peoples to try to emulate colonizers or aspire to reach their same levels of “success”

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A few facts on Rohingya

Rohingya is not a country, it’s a minority group of Muslims.

Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a predominantly Bhuddist country whose government has been executing and terrorizing this minority.

The Rohingya are currently stateless. In 1982 Burmese law claimed Rohingya as an illegitimate ethnicity, therefore they were no longer citizens and had no way of being naturalized. THEY WERE DEEMED and CLASSIFIED as foreigners in their own homeland. Today, they are rejected by neighboring Bangladesh and sent back to Burma where the troops await to behead, burn, murder, torture, rape, isolate, kidnap, ect the entire population.

The UN has OFFICIALLY called the persecution of Rohingya ethic cleansing. With that being said, they still haven’t done shit about it.

In the last ten days alone, over 100,000 of them have tried to escape. But because they are denied refuge and safety, they still meet the same torturous fate they try to escape from.

You guys, they are slowly being wiped from the face of the earth. And the Burmese government is STRATEGICALLY making sure they get away with it by pushing the Rohingya to the margins of Burmese society so that the torture and execution they commit can go unclassified. The media has not exposed Burma enough. This is a minority group of Muslims about to disappear at the hands of an Islamaphobic government who has alienated them into what will soon be oblivion - DO NOT STAY SILENT.

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happy 20th to this iconic moment

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white girls are NOT valid no matter WHAT eye colour they have and that is THAT 💁🏽

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no offense but I hope that white girls with brown eyes know that brown-eye positivity is not for them

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Please boost and support her via this link: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

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I make these posts every month, until I pay off my debt, this one is for August 2017. If you’d like to see my old posts you can look: here

Basically I had to withdraw from school because my grandparents died while I couldn’t afford my meds to treat my mental illness, which at the time was only diagnosed as depression, I know now I’m schizophrenic, and have BPD, which were impacting my ability to continue my education without me knowing what they were. I was also suffering from a physical illness that nearly killed me.

I’m now medicated and desperately want to go back to school, however I owe my university $8,231.72, and I can’t go back until I pay that off as my transcripts are frozen. My goal is to raise $1028 a month if it’s possible, and maybe be done with my debt march 2018, however I’m willing to wait as long as it takes tbh. So far I’ve went from nearly 14k in debt, to 8k in debt so yall have done quite a lot already to help me.

I just want the option to eventually go back to school I want to complete a math degree. I currently live with my family, who are honestly pretty abusive, I have a friend who lives by my old university has said I could live with them when I pay this off, which would allow me to be away from my family, and go back to school without worrying about housing.

If you think this is a worthy goal my little brother has set up a youcaring and paypal as I’m on SSI so I can’t touch the money without being taken off, so he’s taken it upon himself to help me pay off my debt.

you can donate to youcaring or you can donate to the paypal: here and the paypal email is: ikenoxx@gmail.com

Thanks for tolerating this on your dashes, like and reblog if you want to, and maybe consider donating if you want to. don’t feel bad if you can’t donate or reblog, or you can only donate a dollar, it all helps. everything yall do helps.

Currently I’m down to needing $968 out of the $1028 for this month

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It’s funny seeing all these white lib fems try to distance themselves from violent white male racist and act like white women aren’t complicit in white supremacy and haven’t been doing and benefiting from the same evil shit their male counterparts have

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they are ALL fucking canceled.

Abderrahmane Sissako signed the Polanski release petition the FUCK

SEE ALL OF THEM ARE EVIL. Even fucking Wong Kar Wai did, and that bitch Isabelle Hupert who literally played a rape survivor in Elle