The colonial master rejects reciprocity and demands work, not recognition

Evidence

The Negro is a slave who has been allowed to assume the attitude of a master. … The white man is a master who has allowed his slaves to eat at his table. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 791 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If our subjects have shown a sincere willingness to break out of their atavistic laziness and misery, they are still far from attaining a modern rhythm of activity. There are even some who persist in the belief that they have earned the right to sloth, the moment they have put aside the minimal reserves for maintaining a vegetative life. We will make them understand that nobody has the power to escape from the law of work, and that any claim to personal freedom loses a great deal of its psychological value once the human collectivity, in the name of irresistible progress, whose elements or merits are not open to discussion, imperiously demands the integral development of all the resources that nature puts at its disposal. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 742 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French colonial freedom only lets the Negro mimic, not be, a master — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 791; Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins; Colonial officials framed obligatory labor as overriding individual freedom in the name of progress — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 742 (+3 more)

Related

• French colonial freedom only lets the Negro mimic, not be, a master (similarity 0.87)
• The Bantu’s deepest desire was recognition, not material improvement, under colonialism. (similarity 0.81)
• French society grants educated colonial subjects status only by denying their Negro identity (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• French colonial freedom only lets the Negro mimic, not be, a master #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 791
• Colonial officials framed obligatory labor as overriding individual freedom in the name of progress #exemplifies (0.70) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 742
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins #corroborates (0.65)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343