"I am talking of millions…who have been skilfully infected with fear, inferiority complexes, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement."
- Aime Cesaire, Discours sur le Colonialisme
The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon…or too late.
I do not come with timeless truths.
My consciousness is not illuminated with ultimate radiances.
Nevertheless, in complete composure, I think it would be good if certain things were said.
These things I am going to say, not shout.
For it is a long time since shouting has gone out of my life.
So very long…
Why write this…?
No one has asked me for it.
Especially those to whom it is directed.
Well?
Well, I reply quite calmly...there are too many idiots in this world.
And having said it, I have the burden of proving it…
Towards a new humanism…
Understanding among men…
Mankind I believe in you…
To understand and to love…
From all sides dozens and hundreds of pages assail me and try to impose their wills on me.
But a single line would be enough.
Supply a simple answer and the …problem would be stripped of all importance.
What does a man want?
What does the black man want?
At the risk of arousing the resentment of my… brothers, I will say that the black man is not a man.
There is a zone of non-being, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born. In most cases, the black man lacks the advantage of being able to accomplish this descent into a real hell.
Man is not merely a possibility of recapture or of negation. If it is true that consciousness is a process of transcendence, we have to see too that this transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding.
Man is a "yes" that vibrates to cosmic harmonies. Uprooted, pursued, baffled, doomed to watch the dissolution of the truths he has worked out for himself one after another, he has to give up projecting onto the world an antimony that coexists with him.
The black is a black man; that is, as the result of a series of aberrations of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated.
The problem is important…
The man who adores the Negro is as sick as the man who abominates him…what is to be done is to set man free.
These truths do not have to be hurled in men’s faces, they are not intended to ignite fervour…
And contempt for man….
In an age when skeptical doubt has taken root in the world, when in the words of a gang of salauds it is no longer possible to find the sense of non-sense, it becomes harder to penetrate to a level where the categories of sense and non-sense are not yet invoked.
The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.
We shall seek to ascertain the directions of this… narcissism and the motivations that inspire it.
Concern with the elimination of a vicious circle has been the only guideline for my efforts.
-Frantz Fanon, ‘Black Skin White Masks’-
- Aime Cesaire, Discours sur le Colonialisme
The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon…or too late.
I do not come with timeless truths.
My consciousness is not illuminated with ultimate radiances.
Nevertheless, in complete composure, I think it would be good if certain things were said.
These things I am going to say, not shout.
For it is a long time since shouting has gone out of my life.
So very long…
Why write this…?
No one has asked me for it.
Especially those to whom it is directed.
Well?
Well, I reply quite calmly...there are too many idiots in this world.
And having said it, I have the burden of proving it…
Towards a new humanism…
Understanding among men…
Mankind I believe in you…
To understand and to love…
From all sides dozens and hundreds of pages assail me and try to impose their wills on me.
But a single line would be enough.
Supply a simple answer and the …problem would be stripped of all importance.
What does a man want?
What does the black man want?
At the risk of arousing the resentment of my… brothers, I will say that the black man is not a man.
There is a zone of non-being, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born. In most cases, the black man lacks the advantage of being able to accomplish this descent into a real hell.
Man is not merely a possibility of recapture or of negation. If it is true that consciousness is a process of transcendence, we have to see too that this transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding.
Man is a "yes" that vibrates to cosmic harmonies. Uprooted, pursued, baffled, doomed to watch the dissolution of the truths he has worked out for himself one after another, he has to give up projecting onto the world an antimony that coexists with him.
The black is a black man; that is, as the result of a series of aberrations of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated.
The problem is important…
The man who adores the Negro is as sick as the man who abominates him…what is to be done is to set man free.
These truths do not have to be hurled in men’s faces, they are not intended to ignite fervour…
And contempt for man….
In an age when skeptical doubt has taken root in the world, when in the words of a gang of salauds it is no longer possible to find the sense of non-sense, it becomes harder to penetrate to a level where the categories of sense and non-sense are not yet invoked.
The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.
We shall seek to ascertain the directions of this… narcissism and the motivations that inspire it.
Concern with the elimination of a vicious circle has been the only guideline for my efforts.
-Frantz Fanon, ‘Black Skin White Masks’-
~ John Stewart Mill~
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
~ Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)~
~ Patrick Henry March 23, 1775~
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First they came for the Whites,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t White.
Then they came for the Opposition,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t in Opposition.
Then they came for the other tribe,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a member of another tribe.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Thank you for your comments. (Anonymous 1 - moderator)
The time is now.
It is imperative that citizens of the new nation know that, this is the beginning of the fight. To rid ourselves of the "friendly" shackles, we have but two choices to plan and to plan. This informed planning, must be exhaustive and leave no stone unturned - military, police, finance, education. There is need for a paradigm shift. The time is now!
Anonymous 1 (Moderator)
Once again thank you for your contribution...
You make a true point...at the moment developments on the ground are running ahead of the official UN, AU, SADC plans to stop the violence...
A military wing was needed ages ago but these plans were rejected in favour of ideas that dont work.
However on a positive note freedom orientated 'soldiers' from across the globe are making contact and seeking to find solutions to the present mess.
Once again we are forced to swallow the bitter pill from Zanu PF, negotiations! Unfortunately they cannot work unless those responsible for the carnage and quagmire that we find our nation in, are brought to book. You might as well be negotiating to join Zanu PF. A strong case of Cognitive Dissonance grips us as a nation. This struggle is far from over, quite far!
Anonymous1
Rebel et al sorry for the MIA. Things slowed right down waiting for the talks to collapse as all sense said they would.
People spurned fighting back now its all near too late...
Anyway its back to listening to commonsense and heeding foresight.
If you wish drop a line on r.evolution@hotmail.co.uk
We have waited for negotiations to bear fruit! we have waited for tangible parts of the deal to be agreed on, but again this looks like a still-birth.
Make Hay while the sun shines Those guys are not giving up power, it has to be pried from them by force!!!
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