it's not really the isrealis who say this, though. it's the "sympathizers" who support palestinians only if they fight "virtuously", although the other side's brutality is unbounded. paraphrasing fanon; he explained this well.
Malcolm X said the black man is not supposed to get upset, because than he becomes "the angry black man." He put it in the context of a lynching, he is not supposed to cry out or struggle, or try to escape - he is supposed to sing "We Shall Overcome" as he is lynched.
Nice concise statement.
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it's not really the isrealis who say this, though. it's the "sympathizers" who support palestinians only if they fight "virtuously", although the other side's brutality is unbounded. paraphrasing fanon; he explained this well.
ReplyDeleteMalcolm X said the black man is not supposed to get upset, because than he becomes "the angry black man." He put it in the context of a lynching, he is not supposed to cry out or struggle, or try to escape - he is supposed to sing "We Shall Overcome" as he is lynched.
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