Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them.
Evidence
When a Negro talks of Marx, the first reaction is always the same: “We have brought you up to our level and now you turn against your benefactors. Ingrates! Obviously nothing can be expected of you.” And then too there is that bludgeon argument of the plantation-owner in Africa: Our enemy is the teacher. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins; Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence.; Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (+5 more)
Related
- Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.92)
- Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.91)
- Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.90)
- Educated blacks who adopt Western political thought are branded ingrates by their benefactors (similarity 0.90)
- Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors (similarity 0.90)
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.86)
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.85)
- White teachers’ education subverted West Indian racial consciousness. (similarity 0.83)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.83)
- External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.83)
- Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.82)
- White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. (similarity 0.82)
- Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.82)
- Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.82)
- Educated colonial men still view white women as unattainable honor they must apologize for (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors
#corroborates(0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134 - Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity
#expands(0.70) - Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness
#expands(0.55) - White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks.
#expands(0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336