The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Above all, he wants to prove to the others that he is a man, their equal. But let us not be misled: Jean Veneuse is the man who has to be convinced. It is in the roots of his soul, as complicated as that of any European, that the doubt persists. If the expression may be allowed, Jean Veneuse is the lamb to be slaughtered. Let us make the effort. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 238 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• 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; An educated Black professional seeks to reverse role hierarchy by commanding white subordinates.; The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 238 (+8 more)

Related

• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white (similarity 0.91)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.90)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.90)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.90)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.89)
• Black men compulsively seek to prove intellectual equality to white men (similarity 0.88)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.87)
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect (similarity 0.84)
• The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. (similarity 0.81)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.81)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.81)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.80)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.80)
• The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place (similarity 0.79)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 42
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 238
• Black men compulsively seek to prove intellectual equality to white men #exemplifies (0.80)
• A white-supremacist society generates the black man’s neurotic wish to be white #expands (0.75)
• For the black man the white man is master, not merely The Other #corroborates (0.70)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others #expands (0.70)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.70)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites #corroborates (0.65)
• The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 245