Coleman Hughes: evaluation

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…Frantz Fanon. I would say overrated, in the sense that I really don’t like his idea — I remember almost being offended at the idea of the colonized mind. The idea that a colonized people — that the colonization infects the mind in a way that a colonized person must constantly interrogate whether they are parroting the words of the colonizer or whether they’re actually holding their beliefs in good faith. I remember rejecting that in a very knee-jerk way because it is so easily used as a way of shutting down a person like myself, and I knew from introspection that my own views were not coming from a love of whiteness or white supremacy or something. In fact, I remember as a kid — I remember there’s this meme of the self-hating black person. I recall as a kid looking in the mirror and being very happy at what I saw, being very happy that I was black and thinking that, had I been white, that it would look wrong. I remember having, frankly, high racial self-esteem as a kid, and I knew that’s not where my opinions were coming from. What have you learned from Noam Dworman, [laughter] who’s also been a guest on Conversations with Tyler?…

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