African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority

Evidence

The soil, which only a moment ago was still a tamed steed, begins to revel. Are these virgins, these nymphomaniacs? Black Magic, primitive mentality, animism, animal eroticism, it all floods over me. All of it is typical of peoples that have not kept pace with the evolution of the human race. Or, if one prefers, this is humanity at its lowest. Having reached this point, I was long reluctant to commit myself. Aggression was in the stars. I had to choose. What do I mean? I had no choice… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior; The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority; The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (+4 more)

Related

• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (similarity 0.85)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.84)
• Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (similarity 0.84)
• Africa functions as a signifier for repressed racialized experience (similarity 0.83)
• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. (similarity 0.83)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Europeans did not view dark-skinned Africans as naturally inferior. (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.80)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.80)
• Western scholarship’s Hegelian grid cast Africa as manufactured barbarism (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. #corroborates (0.65)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.60)