Poor whites’ violent race consciousness reflects their own race-defined condition.

Evidence

To these objections I reply that the subject of our study is the dupes and those who dupe them, the alienated, and that if there are white men who behave naturally when they meet Negroes, they certainly do not fall within the scope of our examination. If my patient’s liver is functioning as it should, I am not going to take it for granted that his kidneys are sound. Having found the liver normal, I leave it to its normality, which is normal, and turn my attention to the kidneys: As it happens, the kidneys are diseased. Which means simply that, side by side with normal people who behave naturally in accordance with a human psychology, there are others who behave pathologically in accordance with an inhuman psychology. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 114 (#complicates, via linked claim)

However, in the lower orders, where the mist was thickest and where received wisdom has taught us to expect Blackness, the contemporary spectrum was more complex: the natives of the New World obtained a savage red, European labor a mottled gray. Above their heads it was a simpler matter: the ruling classes stood in dramatic, white relief. But between ourselves and the specter of that American past are the historical and racial fables that obscure the related exploitations and oppressions of African, European, Asian, and Amerindian peoples during the intervening 200 years. As a means of obliterating these events, the myth of white solidarity arose and came to dominate American sensibility. It was for the most part a lie but a terribly seductive one. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist whites and alienated blacks both exhibit pathological rather than normal human psychology. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 114; Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence; White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427

Related

• Racist whites and alienated blacks both exhibit pathological rather than normal human psychology. (similarity 0.87)
• White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations (similarity 0.81)
• Whiteness and blackness are each lived as mythic, opposing existential essences (similarity 0.80)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racist whites and alienated blacks both exhibit pathological rather than normal human psychology. #complicates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 114
• Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence #complicates (0.72)
• White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations #corroborates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427