Fanon

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> In einer eMail vom 30.07.00 20:12:36 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
> pmackin at clark.net:
> 
> << People do change their views in the course of their lives. His was quite
>  short of course. Could true love have conceivable altered his views about
>  the White Race? Or was he merely a man of strong contrasts?
>   >>
> First, thanks for the hint that Fanon died in Maryland and not in New York. 
> But I think it had other reasons that Fanon changed his view in his last life 
> years. The possible CIA connection I think can be explained that he was used 
> as an first class "information resource". Maybe he had no idea that he had 
> contact with CIA guys. Before his disease he was the "ambassador" of the FLN 
> in Accra. He was a black man who had difficulties with the Arabian FLN. He 
> felt that he was "pushed away" to the position in Accra by the FLN. And: as 
> far as I know he was born in Martinique where racism was an every day-life 
> experience. This early traumatization was renewed by the unfair "treatment" 
> of him by the FLN.
> And: the US Government had a "neutral" attitude towards the French colonial 
> war in Algeria, neither for it nor against it (as long as the Soviet Union 
> hesitated to take part in the war at the side of the FLN - and the Soviets 
> hesitated a long time as Stalin in the Spanish civil war). So why Fanon 
> shouldn't go into the US - they weren't their enemies but France.

Yes I agree. I doubt if Fanon knew much of interest to either the French
or CIA at at that  point plus the fact there wasn't that much colonialist
solidarity between the French and Americans regarding North
Africa plus that still necessary concern with Russia. French
Indochina was another matter. Was it ever another matter.

I should say that my interrogation of the possibility in an alteration in
Fanon's view was exclusively with regard to Whites as a race brought
about his falling in love (or whatever) with a White woman, not with
regard to Europeans as colonialists. 

			P.