Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon

[@inhumanhyena]

Franz was Martinican. Martinique is a French possession in the Caribbean.

[@SpaceBabies]

This book was soooooo dope His writing style is so unique. I like the mix of poetry, anecdotes and hardcore psychoanalytical philosophy

[@GShrike]

Space Babies I’ve recently started reading and definitively fell in love with how poetic he writes as well!!

[@ntsikadapo8105]

This is misreading fanon on interracial relationship. He was commenting on a play by Kayotte -a black female Martinique novelist -whose play became very popular in white spaces. The black female in that play would "love to get married but only to whites" and her reason is the desire for a "beautiful" light skinned baby. Now this speaks to the association of whiteness as a measure for beauty. What fanon did was to actually expose, how whiteness -because black was (to some extent continue being ) seen as lesser of a human, ugly, evil therefore one desires whiteness/to be close to whiteness. Blackness as condition created by whiteness, most folks affirm to it without really interrogating thus Fanon was critiquing that aspect. That in fact the play affirms to, and perpetuates the agenda of whiteness

[@yacobz]

The issue with me isn't so much the interracial element, it's the power and colorism of global white supremacy that reasserts itself within the trends of who dates who. If interracial relationships were truly interracial, we would see a hodgepodge of ethnicities dating one another. Vietnamese man, and a nigerian woman; Sweedish woman, and an indigenous Mexican man; ...or the most common humans on earth--> Indian Man with a Chinese woman (feel free to mix and match genders, although their selection here was deliberate). Usually, however, "interracial relationship" is simply code for white people dating outside of their socially-constructed race. Within such a framing, white remains constantly present and relevant, and the pervasive silence surrounding eurocentric beauty standards imposed on the world ensures that white is the more advantaged within the pair (is afforded greater freedom in selection, for example). From what I've observed, interracial seems to imply the set up of either a Black man and the white women willing to date them (more common in the U.S.), or white men dating the women of the world. Obviously there are exceptions, and to point to unique cases or outliers is futile in the face of discussing general trends. A myriad of forces are at work here (e.g. socio-economic and cultural proximity when minorities are forced to assimilate in predominantly white spaces), but when analyzing along both race AND gender AND sexuality, clear trends emerge, and can most likely be traced to white supremacist and patriarchal power hierarchies found throughout the world.

[@Prockski]

Yacob Zuriaw I feel this comment might just be a product of your experience. In the UK an interracial relationship is just that. It doesn’t mean it features any white.

[@yacobz]

Britishthetitan, well I suppose this is most applicable to the U.S.

[@BoarandTenia]

absolutely most applicable to the US. in Trinidad there are whole ethnicities of mixed folk without white genes, and within them agents and subalterns.

[@supersovak]

@@BoarandTenia OMG Trinidad is the biggest gene pool on earth

[@myles26]

Exactly!

[@nope-vx4in]

calling him french by the country that colonized him is exactly the very erasure his work worked against

[@Tefera-hf8fw]

nope exactly was eritated to hear that

[@supersovak]

French is a language as well as a culture. You cannot separate Frenchness from Fanon (especially since he leans so heavily into language) any more that you can take his blackness. It's called intersectionality. And it applies here.

[@ao1920]

@@supersovak You are an idiot! The language has nothing to do with his intellect (black excellence). He could also write those insights of him suffering from racism in any language he wanted to if he learned that particular language. It was the pains he saw his people going through which he expressed in a particular language which was in this case the french language. If he would've lived (or born) in England or South Africa (dutch/afrikaans) he will write accordingly to their language because he has no choice other than write in that particular language which is by the way a language which was forced upon the oppressed. There is nothing to be proud of speaking the language of your oppressor. In fact, it is damaging to the psyche of the oppressed because it is brainwashing their consciousness. Goodbye, troll!

[@brockbraylen4039]

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[@landenbrady8049]

@Brock Braylen I would suggest Flixzone. You can find it on google :)

[@JasmineHenryPerc]

"You can bet your croissant..." lol Thanks for adding some humor with this great introductory discussion.

[@DEEwilson-k6y]

can I ask you a question?

[@lukau5]

Great video, but Fanon was from Martinique

[@stephanedjedje5837]

Martinique is part of France. He is right!

[@gougligouify]

Martinique is a french oversea territory

[@vasekvidim272]

Well, I would say that exactly this is the Fanonian problem - what is French and what is Martinique :)

[@DvynmediaLLC]

So Whats your point?

[@jonahfox1138]

@@stephanedjedje5837 Maybe not 'across the pond' though. I'm guessing he was speaking culturally rather than physically.

[@kevikev3450]

He was from Martinique

[@tah385]

Where have you went? I hope you’re healthy and thriving❤️. I love your content and voice.

[@philmoore8650]

Great series... really enjoy your videos and perspective. I'll just note that the Antilles aren't a city - it's a region of the World which we in English more generally call the 'West Indies' or the 'Caribbean'. If I misheard you and you didn't say 'city' then I apologize in advance.

[@remielijah]

When this man pulled out Dr Umar I lost it😂😂😂😂. Dope ass video though. Thanks for this.

[@SwagOnSwoosh]

Dope video. I'm just learning about Fanon but feel he's very important when talking about race and the black experience post colonialism. I really like that it allows for dialogue.

[@johnhargrove7744]

I'm here from Dr. Umar

[@Dagaleeoromo]

What's the music playing? It sounded like Ethio-Jazz

[@youyao]

Sofia A. Mulatu astaque

[@quaxBK]

While I see the points made by people advocating against interracial marriage and relationships, I wonder what is the logical conclusion to this? According to them, should there ever be interracial marriage? Will there be a point at which it will be acceptable? And if not - are we supposed to be a divided people on earth? And why draw the line at race? What about other socio-economic factors? Does a black man from a north american middle class background not have more in common with a white woman from the same background as a Senegalese woman from the working class there?

[@noeraldinkabam]

Nobody has any business in anybody else’s relationship.

[@clarencejones4717]

I paused the video @ 6:03 to say "I bet this is going to be a Dr.Umar clip".

[@clarencejones4717]

anddddddd Bingo!

[@roboldx9171]

African American vernacular? I think you missed the plot, my friend. It's not about a dialect or accent spoken, It's about the language. An Englishman and a man from Madagascan spend 3 months in Germany and neither speaks German. Which one do you think will have an easier stay in Germany?

[@drsheritomlin2642]

If you listen to more of Brother Umar’s speeches you will hear him say people should marry whoever they want to be with however the reason why he’s saying Black men should marry black women is mainly because they are the least likely to be married, society is making us look as if we are the least desirable people on the planet, now they are telling us white women are better than us and it just helps our family overall if we are married and have a black man in the home raising our children with us so that we can build a stronger community and change what we see now.

[@GearsinMotionGraphics]

Excellent in SHIGHT for a complex nature

[@worship568]

I think you need to read Fannon again if you think he was really talking about interracial relationships. This is so reductive it is ridiculous!

[@DerekFullerWhoIsGovt]

If you want to eat you speak the language of the farmer.

[@knottyqueen8004]

Thank you ❤️

[@hotcoffee15]

I don't feel you really addressed the issues around interracial relationships. For instance: "How can you love Obama and hate on interracial relationships?" That's the dialectic. You can hate the process of something and still find utility in the product. I love the video, but just feel some nuance got left out. Umar may be a charlatan, but it's worth taking the time to really deconstruct and address his thought on black versus interracial marriage.

[@sleepyhallows6572]

This video was good! 👏🏾👏🏾

[@zebraylonwoodruff6773]

Fanon even married a white woman XD

[@ephraimduke]

Wasn’t Fanon also married to a white French woman ? 😄

[@Dolce305]

Nope. He married a black martinique woman

[@Dolce305]

Well, as mentioned in the book

[@sandanista2002]

@@Dolce305He married a white woman called Josie.

[@Njoofene]

I fully support Dr. Umar's point of view and strongly oppose interracial relationships with every fibre of my being.

[@srodrirojas]

Todo puede explicarse al pueblo a condición de que se quiera que comprenda realmente. Frantz Fanon

[@supersovak]

excellent excellent excellent

[@22TRUEVISION]

Lmao I am soooooooooo mad at you for putting umar in the same video as the gawd Franz Fanon

[@gregoryjean2512]

This was a good point abt IR relationships. As a black man who dates a white woman who both are aware of our racial and cultural differences, I agree wit you. BUT, those examples you gave were wack. I do not roll wit Trevor Noah or Barack LMAOOO

[@JamzYamz7]

Loooool 🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝😂

[@marlene97280]

Hey from Martinique ❤️

[@Tefera-hf8fw]

Zare is ma muziqa ( Etiopian) 👍🏽

[@khushboorazdan9604]

Fanon was himself married to a white woman. I find his writing on women, both Black and white, sort of sexist. His writings are very male oriented.

[@mirellalastar]

It's embarrassing for you. Fanon was not opposed to interracial relationships. He was married to Josie Fanon. Furthermore, before opposing your opinion to Fanon's on the Internet, maybe read the whole book or the whole chapter you are talking about. The most important chapter in the book is "The Lived Experience of the Black Man." And you really need to humble yourself. It is a complex book.

[@MrMonopolistic]

I don’t love them you do 😅😅😅 Marcus Malcolm and My own father

[@harblardo]

i hope your videos get a bunch of hits because of all of the antiracist book lists lmao

[@harblardo]

also lmao umar hes wack

[@Taylordessalines]

Def disagree with you on IR but that’s a revolutionary opinion. So you get a pass, you ain’t revolutionary.

[@nandorblue]

Go to rural Africa and experience the original black culture before colonialism. You may NOT like it.

[@sandanista2002]

Where in Africa exactly? You know that Africa is a continent right? Please be specific

[@MrMonopolistic]

#NEELYFULLERJR