Fanon explains that Veneuse is first a neurotic and coincidentally a black man. Sent away to boarding school since he was seven, Veneuse did not enjoy a secure feeling of being loved in early childhood. Fanon diagnoses that this phenomenon has nothing to do with race. Even “if this objective difference [in race] had not existed, [Veneuse] would have manufactured [his neurosis] out of nothing” . Similarly, Salih …show more content…
As Fanon posits, this is because they do not accept that “the Negro is a man like the rest, the equal of the others”. Veneuse’s schoolmates, with whom he seldom interacts, “hold him in high regard”. Their vague praises of Veneuse, for instance calling him “the kind of Negro that a lot of white guys ought to be like”, highlight their superficial understanding of Veneuse’s character. On the other extreme, society also warns that “associating with anybody of that race is just utterly disgracing