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🎬"Under the White Mask," reimagining colonial artifacts through a new lens: when Lingala brings an excerpt of Aimé Césaire's works to a new life. @PAEditions plays a pivotal role🌍📚🌟#UnderTheWhiteMask #ColonialLegacy #AiméCésaire #DiscourseonColonialism https://t.co/Pi4SsvOlAd
Pseudo-humanism, “has diminished the rights of man”. It is “biased… and sordidly racist.” - A. Césaire
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Case in point ⬇️
@hrw Twitter mentions:
- M23 (non-violent) = 47 mentions
- ADF (6000 civilians since 2013) = 0
- CODECO (500 since January) = 0
“No human contact, but relations of domination and submission which turn the colonizing man into a class-room monitor, an army sergeant, a prison guard, a slave driver, and the indigenous man into an instrument of production.” Césaire #DiscourseOnColonialism
El Salvador's government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened ‘mega prison,’ the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation's prison population to soar https://t.co/IUL4xjinr5
“that the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal.” Césaire #DiscourseOnColonialism #TyreNichols #ACAB
“Truly, there are sins for which no one has the power to make amends and which can never be fully expiated.” - Césaire #DiscourseOnColonialism.
Forgot Césaire CLOWNT this man like this 🤣😂🤣 Re-reading #DiscourseOnColonialism
(asking for a friend 👀): can it be that it took us until 2022 to have #AiméCésaire ‘s #DiscourseOnColonialism available to us in #Dutch?! No time for bitterness or consternation tho: massive thanks to @gracendjako for the translation work and @uitgeverijdegeus for publishing!
Aime Cesaire’s analysis of ‘Hitlerism’ as the crime of doing unto the (European) self that which was formerly only to be done to the (non-European) ‘Other’-ed looms large here. #DiscourseOnColonialism
“It is not a solution or a strategy or a manual or a little red book with pithy quotes. It is a dancing flame in a bonfire.” ~ A Poetics of Anticolonialism
by Robin D.G. Kelley #césaire #DiscourseonColonialism
“Whether one likes it or not, the bourgeoisie, as a class, is condemned to take responsibility for all the barbarism of history...” #Cesaire #DiscourseOnColonialism
“My only consolation is that periods of colonization pass, that nations sleep only for a time, and that peoples remain.” Césaire. #DiscourseOnColonialism
“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, gregariousness, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.” Cesaire #DiscourseOnColonialism
“American domination — the only domination from which one never recovers. I mean from which one never recovers unscarred.” Cesaire #DiscourseOnColonialism
#AimeCesaire wrote in 1950 in #DiscourseOnColonialism. Still thinking about the same topics today. @UWCCDE
...it is not the head of a civilization that begins to rot first. It is the heart. - Aime Cesaire #DiscourseOnColonialism
"A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization" - Aimé Césaire
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