![]() Tribal feuds only serve to perpetuate old grudges buried deep in the memory. While the settler or the policeman has the right the livelong day to strike the native, to insult him und to make him crawl to them, you will see the native reaching for his knife at the slightest hostile or aggressive glance cast on him by another native for the last resort of the native is to defend his personality vis-a-vis his brother. Where individuals are concerned, a positive negation of common sense is evident. ![]() The native's musuclar tension finds outlet regulary in bloodthirsty explosions - in tribal warfare, in feuds between septs, and in quarrels between individuals. But we have seen that inwardly the settler can only achieve a pseudo petrification. The settlers keeps alive in the native an anger which he deprives of outlet the native is trapped in the tight links of the chains of colonialism. His preoccupation with security makes him remind the native out loud that there he alone is master. The settler pits brute force against the wight of numbers. The settler-native relationship is a mass relationship. The native town is a crouching village, a town on its knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. It is a world without spaciousness men live there on top of the other. They are born there, it matters little where or how they die there, it matters not where, nor how. The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. The settlers' town is a town of white people, of foreigners. The settler's town is a well-fed town, an easygoing town its belly is always full of good things. His feet are protected by strong shoes although the streets of his town are clean and even, with no holes and stones. The settler's feet are never visible, except perhaps in the sea but there you're never close enough to see them. It is a brightly lit town the streets are covered with asphalt, and the garbage cans swallow all the leavings, unseen, unknown and hardly thought about. The settlers' town is a strongly built town, all made of stone and steel. No conciliation is possible, for of the two terms, one is superfluous. Obedient to the rule of Aristotelian logic, they both follow the principle of reciprocal exclusivity. The two zones are opposed, but not in the service of a higher unity. The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers. He is considered this century's most important theorist of the African struggle for independence. Concerning Violence.įrantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique in 1925 and studied medicine in France, specializing in psychiatry: Sent to a hospital in Algeria, he found his symphathies turning toward the Algerian Nationalist Movement, which he later joined.
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