The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women

Evidence

One must apologize for daring to offer black love to a white soul. This we encounter again in René Maran: the fear, the timorousness, the humility of the black man in bis relations with the white woman, or in any case with a woman whiter than he. Just as Mayotte Capécia tolerates anything from her lord, Andre, Mactar makes himself the slave of Nini, the mulatto. Prepared to sell his soul. But what is waiting for this boor is the law of plea in bar. The mulatto considers his letter an insult, an outrage to her honor as a “white lady.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 201 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 245; Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 201; Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (+1 more)

Related

• Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women (similarity 0.91)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.90)
• The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. (similarity 0.86)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.81)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.80)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.80)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.80)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.79)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.78)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 201
• The Black man needs white authorization even to accept love. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 245
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness #expands (0.70)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others #expands (0.60)