Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness

Evidence

At the age of twenty–at the time, that is, when the collective unconscious has been more or less lost, or is resistant at least to being raised to the conscious level–the Antillean recognizes that he is living an error. Why is that? Quite simply because–and this is very important–the Antillean has recognized himself as a Negro, but, by virtue of an ethical transit, he also feels (collective unconscious) that one is a Negro to the degree to which one is wicked, sloppy, malicious, instinctual. Everything that is the opposite of these Negro modes of behavior is white. This must be recognized as the source of Negrophobia in the Antillean. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995; Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671; The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (+8 more)

Broader Connections