Langston Hugh Fanon Blackness Analysis

According to Fanon’s conclusion, ‘Blackness’ is not a self-created identity, but one that placed upon individuals who are characterized as black people. For decades, skin color has been used as the central tool to identify what group of people should be endowed with power in society. Meanwhile, others outside the group were characterized to be inferior to them. In society, the term ‘blackness’ has become the constructed definition that exists for the purpose of inferiority, while whiteness has become the constructed definition for greatness and purity by societal standards. This idea is implying that, outside of racial discourse, a person who is black by nature, has been “blackened” amongst society. This further explains that since social absorption has associated the term blackness with negativity, black man and women are not given an equal chance to self-construct an image or idea of him/herself, but is subject to an pre-destined image and idea established by ‘we-they’ …show more content…
Every day, we are bombarded with images that perpetually show black folks in a negative light, explicitly and implicitly. When black is shown positively, it is clear that it is the exception, not the rule. Our politics is dripping with racial undertones. Think about it, when I say food stamps and welfare, what face comes to mind? Be honest with yourself. For 9 out of 10 of you, it 's a black face (for that 1, you know lying is wrong, right?). This political-racial branding is so strong that we know that there are far more white folks on welfare than blacks, and yet we still associate welfare with black and lazy. The issue is truly correlated with Colorism. The reason why so many black men have a problem with the likes of Drake and equate light-skinned men with “softness” in general; And in spite of the perception that colorism is only a dark/light girls issue, why Sammy Sosa and Vybz Kartel both bleached their