Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality

Evidence

I had rationalized the world and the world had rejected me on the basis of color prejudice. Since no agreement was possible on the level of reason, I threw myself back toward unreason. It was up to the white man to be more irrational than I. Out of the necessities of my struggle I had chosen the method of regression, but the fact remained that it was an unfamiliar weapon; here I am at home; I am made of the irrational; I wade in the irrational. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon; The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority; Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love (+5 more)

Related

• Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon (similarity 0.88)
• White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride (similarity 0.86)
• Hurt by racial hatred, the Black man resolves to defeat white error through reason. (similarity 0.86)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Blacks rejected the feminine analogy while re-constructing similar group qualities (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 444