Celebrating a destroyed culture’s ontology is empty without material freedom.

Evidence

When there is no longer a “human minimum,” there is no culture. It matters very little to me to know that “Muntu means Power” among the Bantu49–or at least it might have interested me if certain details had not held me back. What use are reflections on Bantu ontology when one reads elsewhere: … The nonwhite populations of South Africa are at an impasse. All the modern modes of slavery make it impossible for them to flee from this scourge. In the case of the African especially, white society has smashed his old world without giving him a new one. It has destroyed the traditional tribal foundations of his existence and it blocks the road of the future after having closed the road of the past … . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s interest in how internally vs externally educated intellectuals produce different narratives about black culture. — connects to: Education and abstract values are unattainable without the material conditions that make them possible — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355

Related

• Praising Bantu ontology masks the destruction of Bantu society by segregation. (similarity 0.84)
• Education and abstract values are unattainable without the material conditions that make them possible (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Education and abstract values are unattainable without the material conditions that make them possible #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard #corroborates (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355