The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love.

Evidence

Andrée Marielle has written to him that she loves him, but Jean Veneuse needs authorization. It is essential that some white man say to him, “Take my sister.” … Once again you bring me your problem, once again I will give you my opinion–once and for all. Let us proceed in an orderly fashion. Your situation as you have explained it to me is as clear as it can be. … How old were you, anyway, when you left home to go to France? Three or four, I think. You have never seen your native island since, and you have not the slightest interest in seeing it again. You have lived in Bordeaux ever since. And ever since you became a colonial official, Bordeaux is where you have spent the greatest part of your leaves. In short, you are really one of us. Perhaps you are not altogether aware of the fact. In that case, accept the fact that you are a Frenchman from Bordeaux. Get that into your thick head. You know nothing of your compatriots of the Antilles. I should be amazed, in fact, if you could even manage to communicate with them. The ones I know, furthermore, have no resemblance to you. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 245

Categorization

  • XREF: Central to the reader’s psychoanalysis need: the externally educated black subject cannot act on his desires without white sanction. — connects to: The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.; For the black man the white man is master, not merely The Other; The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women (+6 more)
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 245

Broader Connections