Both the Negrophile and the Negrophobe are equally sick

Evidence

We shall have no mercy for the former governors, the former missionaries. To us, the man who adores the Negro is as “sick” as the man who abominates him. … Conversely, the black man who wants to turn his race white is as miserable as he who preaches hatred for the whites. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Symmetric pathology of adoration and abomination — parallel to the two education narratives (local vs external) both producing distortion. — connects to: Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214

Related

• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.81)
• Rational argument cannot correct Negrophobia because it is prelogical (similarity 0.79)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.79)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214