2. Discrimination Towards Blacks
The Whites treat the Blacks as the object to get their needs fully satisfied. By creating some standards the Whites start to subjugate the Blacks to a lower
position. The Whites, as the colonizers, treat the Blacks as what they want. They need to rule the Blacks’ life so that they make the Blacks as if they were
uncivilized and inferior. In order to make the Blacks become inferior, the Blacks’ voice is sealed up.
The Whites grow fixed status between Blacks. Whenever the Blacks have felt inferior, the Whites continue to press the Blacks. Although the Blacks realize that
they can rule themselves, the standards created by the Whites have made them become less superior even to themselves. Their own desire is locked down. Blacks
need to pay attention to the Whites’ standards. The Whites, according to Fanon 2008: 82, view that the Blacks among their
own have no occasion, except in minor internal conflicts, to experience their being through others. The Blacks have no ontological resistance in The Whites’ eyes.
The initial identities from the Blacks such as their metaphysics, customs, and sources were all deleted because they were in conflict with a civilization that they
did not know. In other words, the Blacks were forced to leave their identity and theywere faced with new cultures from the Whites. The Blacks become desperate
to discover the meaning of black identity as the Whites’ civilization and European culture force an existential deviation on the negro.
There is a kind of difficulty for the Blacks whenever they face the Whites. For years, the Whites start to portray the Blacks as an object in their anecdotes, and
stories. By doing it, the Whites create the Blacks’ frightening persona. This image is actually violation of the Blacks. As Fanon 2008: 84 states:
“I could no longer laugh, because I already knew that there were legends, stories, history, and above all historicity...”
Fanon believes that the so-called myth created by the Whites about the Blacks is not all historically true. The Whites create a misconception about the Blacks’
history. However, this is viewed as a means for the Whites to conquer the Blacks’ life. Furthermore, Fanon views that it is not just the difference that is constructed
based on history. He adds that the social signifieds, the system of devaluation, are associated with that difference. The poor material associated to the black body is
merely a “historico-racial schema”. It is not based on the inferiority status. Based on this schema, the standard created by the Whites points out with that narratives
of the blackness. The Blacks are responsible for themselves, for their race, and their ancestors.
They start to discover, examine about their blackness, and ethnic characteristics. They reject all immunization of the emotions. Black people want to be men,
nothing but the men that they desire to be. They realized that one of their ancestors had been lynched or enslaved, but they accept it. Still, the white world
really hugged them into a cage. A man is expected to behave like a man. Whenever a black man tries to do that, the society vanished him out of the place
Fanon, 2008: 125. It is hard for the Blacks to be their own whenever it comes to face the white
world. There is a bound for the Blacks to act like what they want to do. This bound is created by the Whites to limit them of course. While for the white people
to follow their own desire is a freedom. A white man can go everywhere unnoticed because they come from the race who since at the beginning of time
hasnever known cannibalism. Fanon thinks that there is just a solution for the Blacks since the Whites started to hesitate recognizing them: to be known.
“I resolved, since it was impossible for me to get away from an inborn complex, to assert myself as a BLACK MAN. Since the other
hesitated to recognize me, there remained only one solution: to make myself known.” Fanon, 2008: 87
Fanon 2008: 163 thinksthat being black iscomparison.That is the truth. A black man is comparison: that the Blacks are constantly preoccupied with self-
evaluation and with the ego-ideal. Thus, whenever there is a contact to the Whites, the question of value, of merit, arises.
For a Black man living in a racist society, according to Fanon 2008: viii there will be much pressure to the black’s identity. There is a tendency, that the
black will be like the colonilizer. Society is created by values of man. Fanon 2008: 4 views a Black man living in the racist society will be ignored and the
black will resent on the identity. Fanon continues, if a black man is overwhelmed by the wish to be white, it is because he lives in a society that makes his
inferiority complex possible, in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race.
C. Racism
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