Hurt by racial hatred, the Black man resolves to defeat white error through reason.

Evidence

I felt knife blades open within me. I resolved to defend myself. As a good tactician, I intended to rationalize the world and to show the white man that he was mistaken. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 429

Categorization

• XREF: This rationalist tactic is what Sartre’s ‘imperialism of reason’ passage (430-433) theorizes. — connects to: An educated Black professional seeks to reverse role hierarchy by commanding white subordinates.; Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon; The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (+6 more)

Related

• Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon (similarity 0.88)
• Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality (similarity 0.86)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.82)
• The rejected Black man defines himself as one who waits and investigates. (similarity 0.81)
• When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly. (similarity 0.80)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.79)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality #contradicts (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 447
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.50)