Topic :- The Negro and the language Black skin and
white mask.
Paper 11 :- The Post-Colonial Literature
Name :-
Devender A Joshi
Class :- M.A. Sem-1
Submitted
To
:- Smt.
S. B. Gardi
Department
of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
The Negro and the language
Black skin and white mask
Introduction

The Black man/Negro
and language:

There
is the town, the country, the capital. There are the inhabitants of Lyon in
Paris. He will boast of how clam his city is, how bewitchingly beautiful or the
banks of the Rhone.
The Negro man who has
been to the metro pole is a demigod. On this subject shall indicate a fact that
must have struck my fellow islands. The Negro man meets a friend or colleague,
gone is the expansive bear hugs instead our ‘future’ candidate bows directly. The
black man Antillean, prisoner on his islands, lost an atmosphere without the
slightest prospect.
The
black man entering France changes because for him the metro pole is
the holy of holies; he changes not only because that’s where his doctors,
his departmental superiors and innumerable little potentates come from, the
staff sergeant “ fifteen years on the job” to be gendarme from
patisseries. There is a kind of spell cast from afar, and the black man who
leaves in one week for the metro pole creates an aura of magic around him where
the words Paris.
The
African today that the feeling of inferiority by blacks is especially evident
in the educated black man who is constantly trying to overcome it. We would
like to try to show why the black man posits himself in such a characteristic
way with regard to European languages.

There
is nothing comparable in the French Antilles; the official language is French
elementary school teachers keep a close eye on their pupils to make sure they
are not speaking Creole. When an Antillean with a degree in philosophy says he
is not sitting for the aggression because of his color, my response is that the
black man is as intelligent as any white man, my response is that neither did
intelligence save anybody, for if equally among men is proclaimed in the name
of intelligence and philosophy, it is also true that these concepts have been
used to justify the extermination of man.
We have said that the black man was the missing link between the ape and man the white man of course and only on page 108 of his book does sir Alan Burns come to the conclusion, “we are unable to except as scientifically proven the theory that the black man is inherently inferior to the white or that he comes from a different stock” let us add it would be easy to prove the absurdity of such statements as“ The Bible says that the black and white races shall be separated in heaven as they are on earth and the native admitted to the kingdom of heaven will find themselves separated to certain of our fathers mansions in the new Testament ” or else. We are the chosen people look at the color of our skin; others are black or yellow because of their sins.
It would be easy to prove and have acknowledged that the black man is equal to the white man but that is not our purpose what we are striving for is to liberate the black man from the arsenal of complexes that germinated in a colonial situation.
There are whites who
interact sanely with blacks; those are precisely the cases that will not be
taken into account. It’s not because my patients liver is functioning normally
that his kindly are healthy.
Speaking
to black people in this way is an attempt to reach down to them, to make them
feel at ease to make oneself understood and reassure them consulting physicians
know this, twenty European patients comes and go; please have a seat now what’s
the trouble ? What can I do for you today?
In comes a black man
or an Arab! Sit down, old fellow. Not feeling well? Where is hurting? When its
not! If the person who speaks to a man of color or an Arab in pidgin does not
see that there is a flaw or a defect in his behavior, then he has never paused
to reflect.
They
have a clear conscience when the answer comes back along the same lines “you
see, I told you so. That’s how they are, if the opposite case, you need to
retract your pseudopodia and behave like a man. The entire foundation
collapses. A black man who says! “I object, sir, to you, calling me, my old
fellow” now there’s something new.
“There
is nothing comparable
When
it comes to the black man.
He has no
culture, no civilization,
And
no long historical past”.
The
black man has to wear the livery the white man has fabricated for him. Look at
children’s comic books all the blacks are mouthing the ritual, yes, boss. In
films the situation is even more actuate.
In
France, where go million citizens are colored. Anyone would dub the same
idiocies from America. The black man has to be portrayed in a certain way, and
the same stereotype can be found from the black man in same pitied. To speak a
language is to appropriate its world and culture. The Antillean who wants to be
white will succeed, since he will have adopted the cultural tool of language.
If
should be understood that historically the black men wants to speak French
since ,if is the key to open doors which only fifty years ago still remained
closed to him.
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