I was responsible at the same time for my body, for my race, for my ancestors. I subjected myself to an objective examination, I discovered my blackness, my ethnic characteristics; and I was battered down by tom-toms, cannibalism, intellectual deficiency, fetishism, racial defects, slave-ships, and above all else, above all: “Sho’ good eatin’.
— Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. Fanon is wack when it comes to gender, but the essay “The Fact of Blackness” is brilliant. I wonder what Barack Obama would take from reading this text.
