Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" (Part 2/2)

[@dakidakidak]

As a Kenyan living in Nairobi, I listened to the two parts of this series and it all reads like a prophecy. Can’t wait to read the book for myself. Great work 👍🏽.

[@cheri238]

Thank you again for these 2 podcasts on Frantz Omar Fanon's, "The Wretched Earth." Dr. Lewis R. Gordon is a philosopher, political thinker, educator originally from the Caribbean who has written extensively on Fanon's work in depth. HE got his PHD from philosophy at Yale. As a public intellectual Dr. Gordon has written for a variety of political forums, newspapers, magazines, and political meetings across our globe. If one has anymore questions look him up. Otherwise, you have done an excellent discovery of the footprints of Fanon's brief life and how important he was. Thank you.

[@nabeelaboufayed5735]

Fascinating, eye opening, thank you so much ..

[@reymarrero740]

27:23 Do you mean like disorders as a consequence of engaging in violent actions against a power/patriarchal figure? And how would this affect the cognitive dissonance?

[@theamici]

Hey David! Just wanted to say I donated to your paypal. Thanks for all your work here on social media, you are a treasure to the global philosophy community!

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Thank you Amici

[@evarukikairemwine]

Brilliantly insightful! Much appreciated

[@pragmaticsingh5275]

The way you explain and interpret ideas , its great. I find your videos highly illuminating and knowledgeable. Thanks, keept it up. Would you also be able to bring Foucault in Iran.

[@feliz2892]

Thanks for your insight

[@JAMAICADOCK]

This was already happening during colonialism, that is divide and rule policies, wherein one tribe would be made the upper class, and another, the lower class. E.G. The Belgian empire did it in Rwanda and the Congo more generally, the Tutsi set up as the ruling clerical class, the Hutu as the peasantry. Which naturally created class antagonisms, that eventually erupted into civil war and genocide, as the Hutu took a terrible revenge in the 1990s for a century of being under the jackboot of Belgian and its lackey Tutsi tribes. In fact many of today's civil wars, from Sri Lanka to Liberia, from to Ireland to Venezuela - are a result of divide and rule policies implemented as a means of controlling colonies. Moreover, you might say that such divide and rule policies are now coming home to roost, as we see ruling classes staying in control by playing whites against blacks; natives against migrants; Christians against Muslims etc etc The tricks of colonialism. now applied at the centres of Western power, We Westerners shouldn't believe we are so sophisticated, as we fall for the exact same tricks as the so-called primitive societies do. In spite of the technical advance, the internet, the smart phones, the education - we are in many ways no different to the so-called Third World Everything that Fanon applies to colonial countries, now applies to the colonizer countries.

[@hongdekungfu]

Nah we gotta just use our imagination...

[@briangreenberg5986]

Keita is a common last name among Malinke Guineans. Pretty sure it's Fodeba Keita.

[@mohamedmilad1]

Thanks a lot

[@numbersix8919]

You did a great job David, thank you very much. I can't help but note the eerie parallels in Fanon's analysis to how the white middle and working class of the US are now responding to their internal colonization, and how well he describes the many pitfalls they would have to overcome to overcome their oppression.

[@MSimky]

How do you know that the guy wasn’t crazy before he joined the terrorist liberation group and planted the bomb?

[@hongdekungfu]

I was liking your take until you said I don't want to get into actual colonialism cause you can use your imagination.😮. Not intellectually honest because, the forms of barbarism that took and takes place around the world to brown bodies is real, and although it might have come from some sick hurt folks it is not a fever dream or waking nightmare, it was reality every day for hundreds of years for most of the planet. Respectfully it is that part that I can't stand.l, using all the right phrases but missing the point of how to come to terms with the reality of the past in order to have a accurate perspective on the present so as to be able to positively navigate the future. "Use your imagination" distances not only the thinker but also dehumanizes all parties involved both victims and victimizers to shadows on the wall instead of the people who came before us. We are them and what they did can be done again. Save imagination for morality plays and use facts and documentation when critiquing the modern society we live in.

[@afree3884]

I think he said that for the sake of brevity