Cycle Of Oppression

Fanon and Du Bois come to similar conclusions on how to combat against externalized and internalized oppression, which involves educating the public and letting history be history. However, that solution seems impractical when modern day societies still suffers ( in the case of the minorities), and profits (in the case of the white world) from the issues of the past. Fanon states, “I am not a slave to slavery that dehumanized my ancestors” (Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks,p. 205). The issue with this statement is that the black man and black women are in fact still the slaves to the slavery their ancestors. The black community’s current position within the social hierarchy has direct ties to their poisoning as slaves less than a hundred years …show more content…
The character detaches himself from the events that are happening and works to find inner peace with it, which inherently is almost like hiding from the issue of Anti-Semitism.There are multiple occasions where the main character does not fight back against the oppressors in his life, and he is almost seduced by the ideologies of one of, exposing the major flaw in the idea of finding into peace with one's oppression. The main characters love for the professor can be linked to his interest in the professor's ideologies, which are inherently Fascist. This is exposed when the professor shows minimal compassion for the main character when he confronts him about not helping while he was faced with anti-semitism in the classroom. His justification for not helping it that it will weed out the strong members of society, “You’ll knock over a few things-the weak ones”. There is obvious discomfort when this line is stated, and it is almost as if the professor was justifying the anti-Semitic ideas presented in class. However the main character never stands up to this statement. He never questions it, which enforces this concept of victim blaming, which is the route many oppressor take to justify their own actions. Giving up and …show more content…
Finding inner peace with one's oppression may work for some people, like the main character in For Two Thousand Years. However, is it outlandish to believe that everyone will be able to live their lives without validation from their society to feel self worth. The main character argues that he does not need to have his “right recognized”229 to feel self worth. However, for a large majority of the population this is impossible, hence internalized oppression.. The question then becomes what happens to the people who cannot escape the veil? The ones that are constantly weighed down by internalized oppression? Should the end goal not be to allow justice and equal rights to all, rather than just contentment with a supposedly unsolvable problem? If rights are not being fought for how does one ever think they will acquire them? Those who do not care how society views them must be willing to deal with the guilt knowing that they caused more pain and suffering for future generations,who will be unwilling to sit ideally by and allow oppression to