For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white

Evidence

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 42

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly does ‘destiny is white’ mean mechanistically — desire, or imposed structure?
• XREF: connects to: The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 184; The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.; For the black man the white man is master, not merely The Other (+7 more)

Related

• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.94)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.91)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.91)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.83)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.82)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.81)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.81)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness (similarity 0.81)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.80)
• Whiteness and blackness are each lived as mythic, opposing existential essences (similarity 0.80)
• The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. (similarity 0.80)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.80)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.79)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (similarity 0.78)
• Black men compulsively seek to prove intellectual equality to white men (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. #corroborates (0.85)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.75)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 577
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments #complicates (0.60)