White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge

Evidence

Every intellectual gain requires a loss in sexual potential. The civilized white man retains an irrational longing for unusual eras of sexual license, of orgiastic scenes, of unpunished rapes, of unrepressed incest. In one way these fantasies respond to Freud’s life instinct. Projecting his own desires onto the Negro, the white man behaves “as if’ the Negro really had them. When it is a question of the Jew, the problem is clear: He is suspect because he wants to own the wealth or take over the positions of power. But the Negro is fixated at the genital; or at any rate he has been fixated there. Two realms: the intellectual and the sexual. An erection on Rodin’s Thinker is a shocking thought. One cannot decently “have a hard on” everywhere. The Negro symbolizes the biological danger; the Jew, the intellectual danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605 (#expands, via linked claim)

Another solution might be this: There is first of all a sadistic aggression toward the black man, followed by a guilt complex because of the sanction against such behavior by the democratic culture of the country in question. This aggression is then tolerated by the Negro: whence masochism. But, I shall be told, your schema is invalid: It does not contain the elements of classic masochism. Perhaps, indeed, this situation is not classic. In any event, it is the only way in which to explain the masochistic behavior of the white man. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605; White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451 (+5 more)

Related

• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.93)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.92)
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks (similarity 0.89)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked (similarity 0.84)
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women (similarity 0.83)
• White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level (similarity 0.83)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.82)
• The Uncle Remus stories encode simultaneous white love-seeking and hatred of blacks (similarity 0.81)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.81)
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.80)
• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (similarity 0.80)
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.79)
• Sexual phenomena are central to understanding racial experience psychoanalytically (similarity 0.79)
• White male brutality toward Black women stemmed from patriarchal misogyny, not racism alone (similarity 0.79)
• Whites defuse Br’er Rabbit stories to protect against their own masochistic admiration (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked #corroborates (0.70)
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women #complicates (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451
• White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks #expands (0.50)