Photo taken by Nahel Besançon in Planoise, France on June 29.
Photo taken by Nahel Besançon in Planoise, France on June 29.
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I’m only going to focus on one story this week because it seems compelling and significant enough to drown out everything else that happened. Since it bears the ominous potential to metastasize into something even more far-reaching, it may become the story of the year. Or decade. Or century. (more…)
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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)
By Way of Conclusion
The conclusion is pretty mopey, as usual. For example:
The situation that I have examined, it is clear by now, is not a classic one. Scientific objectivity was barred to me, for the alienated, the neurotic, was my brother, my sister, my father. I have ceaselessly striven to show the Negro that in a sense he makes himself abnormal; to show the white man that he is at once the perpetrator and the victim of a delusion. (more…)
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
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Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here)
Frantz Fanon was a black author who mostly wrote about being black. (Of course, right?) The celebrated skintellectual began as a citizen of Martinique. He volunteered for the De Gaullist forces during the Second World War. Then he got a university education on scholarship in Lyon and became a psychiatrist.
What would he have done had he stayed in Martinique — editing some sad Leftist rag in Fort-de-France, perhaps? If that didn’t work out, then like many other islanders he could’ve earned his daily bread with a machete, chopping down bananas or sugar cane all day under the tropical Sun. (more…)
Sir Alan Burns at the height of his career.
Sir Alan Burns at the height of his career.
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Bruce Gilley
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021 (more…)
Auguste Raffet, Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot, 1839.
Auguste Raffet, Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot, 1839.
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As Saint-Domingue sank ever deeper beneath the churning waves of black filth, those whites fortunate enough to survive fled for the greater Caribbean, including the antebellum American South. The colonists were no longer welcome in their home of France, (more…)
Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.
Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.
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The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood (more…)
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The 2011 documentary Empire of Dust provides a one-of-a-kind portrayal of the difficulties facing a construction crew attempting to redo a badly dilapidated Congolese highway. Early on we meet Eddy, playing a key role as a translator. Clearly, he is exceptional: he knows Swahili, Chinese, French, and English, and this takes some doing. The other major figure is Lao Yang, the project manager for the CREC-7 construction company. Surely he’s one of the most flustered Oriental expatriates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). (more…)
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Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School (more…)
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Perhaps the best way to think about “postmodernism” from the Right is not as a problematic philosophical tradition, but as a philosophical tradition with a problem. On the one hand, “postmodernism” may be loosely defined as a philosophical turn that delegitimized traditional aesthetic and moral standards, and “deconstructed” seemingly self-evident categories like ethnicity and culture. On the other hand, it could also be defined as a school of thought which delegitimized the scientific, materialist, (more…)
Diego Rivera, Flower Carrier
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Diego Rivera, Flower Carrier
Do you feel that your own people and country are somehow positioned outside the mainstream? Have you ever felt that the moment you said the word ‘I’, that ‘I’ was someone else, not you? That in some obscure way, you were not the subject of your own sentence? Do you ever feel that whenever you speak, you have already in some sense been spoken for? Or that when you hear others speaking, (more…)
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Many mixed-race individuals, or métis, remain in an immature, adolescent stage of permanent race hatred. (I cannot estimate the proportion, but it seems frightfully high.) As I have suggested, the pain of the métis should motivate him to work towards sparing his compatriots, those who share at least some of his blood and spirit, from suffering the same ordeal. (more…)