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How do you deal with the stereotyped view of yourself that you yourself have been socialized to accept? […] Because the stereotypes are not arbitrary. Its not a matter of someone getting up and suddenly being racist. It is that given the conception of what it is to be human, to be an imperial English man or woman, you had to be seen by them as the negation of what they were. So you, too, had to circumcise yourself, in order to be fully human

Sylvia Wynter | Interview with David Scott in Small Axe [132]

Wynter’s discussing that famous passage in Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks:

What else could it be for me but an amputation, an excision, a hemorrhage,  that spattered my whole body with black blood? But I did not want this revision, this thematization. All I wanted was to be a man among other men. I wanted to come lithe and young into a world that was ours and to help to build it together. (113)

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