Status Updates From The Wretched of the Earth

reading real slow coz i want to rlly engage with and know the book. i keep thinking of this one woman on tiktok saying that reading a book is like having a conversation, and that if youre going to be talking to me for several hours, im naturally going to have things to say back. so ya makes for slow reading but lots of thinking

Just finished chapter 1: On violence and it was so painful to read :((

Fanon showed how the colonial machine relies on complete physical & psychological degradation that reduces functioning human beings to a state of constant survival. He’s painted a picture of what happens in a person’s mind when they live under a continuous oppresion