Both colonizer and colonized carry disasters, yet the black man must reject retroactive reparations.

Evidence

The disaster of the man of color lies in the fact that he was enslaved. The disaster and the inhumanity of the white man lie in the fact that somewhere he has killed man. And even today they subsist, to organize this dehumanization rationally. But I as a man of color, to the extent that it becomes possible for me to exist absolutely, do not have the right to lock myself into a world of retroactive reparations. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 874

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the paired disasters — enslavement for the man of color, the killing of man for the whites — as the psychological ground Fanon’s whole analysis stands on.
• XREF: connects to: An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity.; The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes

Related

• Recovering a glorious precolonial past cannot change present colonial suffering (similarity 0.81)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.81)
• Reclaiming an ancient Negro civilization does not change present colonial suffering. (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.79)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.79)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.79)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.79)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.78)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes #corroborates (0.70)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. #qualifies (0.60)