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...arbitrariness of the classification itself. Those who have been designated “terrorists” by the powers-that-be, while sometimes guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, have hardly had a monopoly on terror. One only needs to revisit the historical record, where—as Frantz Fanon once wrote about European imperialism—we find an “avalanche of murders” carried out by those who “never stopped talking...
...young's impatience with the complicit evasions of their elders enabled a nation to face up to its past with a rare honesty. Even at the time, not all '60s beliefs and behavior stood up to examination. Some sacred texts were junk. (Have you tried to read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth lately? Don't.) And when, in Germany and Italy, the street politics of the 1960s gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade of peace and love seemed a bitter joke. But it is not because of their faults...
There's more. To an extent that few Americans understand, modern Europeans have a deep sense of guilt about their colonial adventures. (Indeed, they have much to feel guilty about.) Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, a chilling catalog of French atrocities in Algeria and a cry to listen to those denied a voice, is one of the post-1945 era's most influential European books. All this has had an effect. It was easy for Europeans to be on the side of Israel when, as in 1967 and 1973, it seemed to be fighting a defensive...
...breed of white rappers--guys like Eminem, Kid Rock and the punkish Bloodhound Gang--is proudly white, and they tell you all about it on their songs (Kid Rock's new album, The History of Rock, boasts a track titled Born to Be a Hick). Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks famously explored black identity; the book on the new crop of hip-hoppers could be named White Skin, White Masks. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, has managed to create a media-ready outsize racial persona--dyed blond hair, played-up trailer-trash roots--that can compete...
Gandhi predated Frantz Fanon and the black-consciousness movements in South Africa and the U.S. by more than a half-century and inspired the resurgence of the indigenous intellect, spirit and industry...