I absolutely love Lewis Gordon, his mind is superb ! I'm officially a fan of him and his work. I was only enlightened to him this year, as I needed to write an essay for my degree, I have since bought his work and will continue to follow what this great Key thinker of our time produces. Thanks to my sociology lecturer Mr Syd Jeffers also an awesome thinker and sociologist.
"FANON REFUSED TO BE PATRONIZED"! Prof. Gordon. I don't doubt that this is the FIRST step towards Political Liberation. I was an orphan - at the age of 10 - and I felt very despondent... But I never accepted being patronized. It saved my emotional and political life. Thank you Prof. Gordon: You're "so real" - I t was a pleasure. [Although the You Know? You Know? OK? OK? ... For some reason this irritates me!] #judeuslivresporPALESTINALIVRE
Frantz Fanon - aversion to Martinique. Stokley Carmichael banished & stripped of his Trinidadian citizenship because of voicing & giving ‘“life” to the concept of BLACK POWER”.
Thank you Dr.Gordon, you are so right. I have read this book but as you said I will have to read it again. Based on the information you have given a whole new perspective has opened up.
His insights were Blacks, and other darker people of the world who vame from places that were minerally rich all were under the yoke of white colonialism, and that the darker people of the world needed to not assimilated like the Black Bourgeoisie class, who he saw as class buffers in between the oppressed and the ruling class. Fanon did not believe in class assimilation, or making inroads pursuits into tue system. He was a proponent of absolute obliteration of the system. He largely thought like this because he felt & theorized that the system is structured in a completely totalitarian way. So regardless if it was a Black ruling class, the system had a default mode and that was it was oppressive and blood sucking of resources and of the common people who inhabit it. He believed in absolute freedom fighting. I know this repsonse is a year late. Hope this helps.
Jan. 24: I cannot see - in the face of Famine and Land Theft everywhere - how we can discuss Race and Gender and Colonialism today - especially if we take Fanon as a reference - leaving aside the Importance of Class Struggle for Fanon. #judeuslivresporPALESTINALIVRE
Wow! Respect to everyone but no, we don't have the same ancestors so I would not speak of ancestors, hotep, etc. with a non black group, out of respect.
