Black People Politics : Europe is the creation of the Third World

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Brexit Will Be a Conscious Uncoupling, Not a Nasty Divorce
EU officials might be talking tough. But the voices that count want to play nice

There has been no single official response by the European Union to the U.K.’s decision last week to vote in favor of leaving the bloc. Instead, we’ve seen a flurry of mixed and competing messages – a sort of good cop-bad cop routine, with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pounding on the table and German Chancellor Angela Merkel asking Britain to take a few deep breaths and think ...


http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/28/brexit-will-be-a-conscious-uncoupling-not-a-nasty-divorce/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New Campaign&utm_term=*Editors Picks

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[chuck]

In the Spirit of Dysfunction,



Europe is the creation of the Third World

What will remain of the very idea of 'Europe' now that the UK opted to bid it farewell?



In a famous passage in his now classic book, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Frantz Fanon wrote one of his most iconic phrases: "Europe is literally the creation of the Third World."

Why would he say that and what could that phrase actually mean? What will have remained of the very idea of "Europe" that now even the UK has opted to bid it farewell? ...


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/06/europe-creation-world-160613063926420.html

People walk by a miniature model of British Parliament in Mini-Europe miniature park in Brussels, Belgium [EPA]


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Please do present an actual quote from Fanon to back up your claims...

Thanks!!

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

Please do present an actual quote from Fanon to back up your claims...

Thanks!!

fyi

Not my claim at all chuck, but that of the person who wrote the article.

Its not a problem to present the actual quote, please click the link below for a full page view:

Franz Fanon (1925 -1961)

From THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1961)

Les Damnés de la Terre

The existence of an armed struggle shows that the people are decided to trust to violent methods only. He of whom they have never stopped saying that the only language he understands is that of force, decides to give utterance by force. In fact, as always, the settler has shown him the way he should take if he is to become free. The argument the native chooses has been furnished by the settler, and by an ironic turning of the tables it is the native who now affirms that the colonialist understands nothing but force ...

... Latin America, China, and Africa. From all these continents, under whose eyes Europe today raises up her tower of opulence, there has flowed out for centuries toward that same Europe diamonds and oil, silk and cotton, wood and exotic products. Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude. Quite the contrary; we say to ourselves: "It's a just reparation which will be paid to us."
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http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/204/204-Readings/fanon.htm

Martinique-born thinker Frantz Fanon, considered a 'prophet' of violence in many academic circles.


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[chuck]

My take on what leads to truly progressive movements isn't the same as fanon's!!

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

My take on what leads to truly progressive movements isn't the same as fanon's!!

fyi

That is most certainly true.


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