Colonial violence quickly desensitized its administrators to killing.

Evidence

The gallows are put up. The rope has been tied too high. They lift the nigger and put the noose around his neck. The rope twists for a few minutes, then crack, the fellow is thrashing about on the ground. A shot in the neck, and it’s finished. This time it didn’t make the slightest impression on me! And that although I had turned white [sic] with horror when I saw the chicotte used for the first time. Africa has its point after all. I would now go into a fight as though I were going to a wedding. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 896 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial administrators’ moral horror deadened with each successive killing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 896

Broader Connections

• Colonial administrators’ moral horror deadened with each successive killing. #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 896