Frantz Fanon Documentary - Black Skin, White Mask - 5/5

[Nolooz]

Greetings for these videos.Im from martinique, and all my entire life i have never feel like i was proud to be from this little island.but dont get me wrong:ovastand that martinique, guadeloupe and the west indies were colonialists territory don't mean that you dont love where you comin from!Like Fanon and Cesaire i have allways look to Afrika,when i was seeking for the truth.truth and knowledge are jewls for the mind. keep posting some marvelous videos. All power to the people.

[azhar8c]

@kruger97

Thanks for the upload. Glad to see that segments of the film "The Battle of Algiers" spliced into the documentary.

[KingCandyManTNite]

more videos of this standard,subject matter ,and depth are needed. this is a great a great documentary

[surrected4526]

Thank you very much!! Je vous remercie!!

[Nefertiti999]

Thank you for putting up this documentary. I loved the way the ideas of Fanon were problematized, his view on inter-racial relationships btw white men/black women, his idealistic participation in the Algerian strugge etc. What I must however disagree with, and what made me dissappointed in this otherwise good piece, this the fallback to uncritical stereotypical portrayal of vieled women. It followed the themes of mainstream narrative of oppressed figures in dark cloths.

[kruger97]

@Nefertiti999 I do agree.

[tw69hands2]

@Nefertiti999 I also feel that he missed the fact that he missed how the Arab is anti-African also. When one looks at the Sudan, you have African Muslims killing, enslaving, and ruining Africans who are non-Muslim. So another mask must be removed and crushed. So the work continues.

[kruger97]

@tw69hands2 I suggest you read some of the work Mahmood Mamdani has done on Darfur, Sudan and the Western simplification of their troubles into a useless dichotomy between Arab Muslims Vs Africans. The situation is a lot more complex than you, or groups like Save Darfur make out.

[tw69hands2]

@kruger97:

I would rather trust my judgment. I know from all the works that I've read about Africa, Islam, etc that the Arab has always treated the African, particularly the non-Muslim African, as chattel property. This goes back over 1000 years and pre-dates Islam. The problem in Darfur is not complex. It's the same brutal problem between Islamic Arabs and their black minions and non-Muslim Africans just warmed over.

[azhar8c]

@tw69hands2

You would rather trust your intuition rather than a coherent argument supported by factual evidence?

As kruger97 suggested, you should read "Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror" by Mamdani or watch him debate and demolish a "Save Darfur" propagandist, rather than professing your bigoted bias against Muslims or Arabs.

After watching this doc I would assume your would understand the psychology of oppression.

watch?v=yGOpfH_5_pY

[monkhillier]

@azhar8c A coherent argument is better. But the coherent argument supported by factual evidence would confirm that as a racial group the Arab/Asian peoples have been anti-African for thousands of years.

As an example question: Could you please explain where the pro-Africaness exists in Arab/Asian attitudes of the vast enslavement of Africans by Arab/Asians for the last 1000 years? Explain current Arab/Asian attitudes towards Africans.

Please give a coherent argument supported by evidence.

[kruger97]

@monkhillier Slavery in Arab culture, especially during the Ummayad and Abassid dynasties, was not based upon race. There were European slaves as well as Black, Persian, Indian, Russian, etc.

[vivascargill1]

@kruger97  yes the first slaves were from eastern europe (see merchnt of venice) thus the word "slave" from "slava"

[tw69hands2]

@azhar8c:

I would rather trust the fact that the Arab within Islam is anti-African, culturally and racially. Those Sudanese who look African are co-opted and their value as so-called 'Arab-Sudanese' is validated by their willingness to kill, rape, etc. Sudanese Africans who are not Muslim for the most part.

[vivascargill1]

@kruger97 yes I realized this from reading Hochchild

[amareto35]

@tw69hands2 I liked how you are singled out. First of, The Sudanese don't look like Arabs , they are DARKER like Africans. Besides the point, Somalians are killing another Somalians,Do they hate Africans?

Rwandan genocide, 800000 pple. lost their lives, they were NOT Arabs..

Same as Congo (formely known Zaire). Or you are not old enough to find out all of these, or should I say "smart" enough...

[vivascargill1]

@tw69hands2 I had thought this as well but after reading "King Leopold's Ghost" I think is not quite correct though of stated