Educated blacks who rush to the universal abandon voiceless masses.
Evidence
What? I have barely opened eyes that had been blindfolded, and someone already wants to drown me in the universal? What about the others? Those who “have no voice,” those who “have no spokesman.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661
Categorization
- SEED: Potential essay: how universalist claims by educated exiles create a new elite narrative that silences the internal colonized majority.
- XREF: connects to: Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves; Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity; Universalizing black intellectuals abandon the masses who lack voice. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661 (+1 more)
Related
- Universalizing black intellectuals abandon the masses who lack voice. (similarity 0.93)
- Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves (similarity 0.84)
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.80)