Comfort and proximity make the colonized resist liberation

Evidence

If the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, “What’s the matter, boss, we sick?” We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,” the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 223

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘we sick’ identification is rhetorically devastating and instantly shareable as a critique of co-optation.
• XREF: connects to: A comfortable, willing population can still be enslaved by its instrumentality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 187

Related

• Malcolm X diagnosed colonized loyalty through the house Negro figure (similarity 0.82)