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Frantz Fanon’s ”Black Skin, White Masks” (Part 2/2)

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Does the Father Revolt to Anti Black Racism?

The idea about black men motivates a lot of fear within white men of black men. Fear that t the way that black men are constructed as sexual beings is going to encourage their wives to leave their white husbands to be with black men. This is one of the real driving forces behind anti black racism. And he says that there is something similar that goes on with jewish people that encourages anti semetism. One of the ways that anti black racism comes about is from a fear that black men, especially black men, are to a have too much sexual power.

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