The educated black professional is held under permanent suspicion of incompetence
Evidence
It was always the Negro teacher, the Negro doctor; brittle as I was becoming, I shivered at the slightest pretext. I knew, for instance, that if the physician made a mistake it would be the end of him and of all those who came after him. What could one expect, after all, from a Negro physician? As long as everything went well, he was praised to the skies, but look out, no nonsense, under any conditions I The black physician can never be sure how close he is to disgrace. I tell you, I was walled in: No exception was made for my refined manners, or my knowledge of literature, or my understanding of the quantum theory. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 425 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal.; Educated Black professionals live under constant threat that any error damns their whole race. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 425; Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color (+1 more)
Related
- Educated Black professionals live under constant threat that any error damns their whole race. (similarity 0.93)
- A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal. (similarity 0.92)
- Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Educated Black professionals live under constant threat that any error damns their whole race.
#expands(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 425 - Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color
#corroborates(0.75) - The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance
#expands(0.55)