Whatever else you read today

[Heidi]

15. Frantz Fanon had some insights on combatting colonialism

that are very much in sync with what we are facing in the US today. I don’t generally condone extreme measures, but it seems oppressors take power through extreme means and then get all surprised when the oppressed see no choice but to take back their power by the same means.

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. But if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors.”
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth