The creation of a level-playing field through a violence, would lead to an end of all feelings of inadequacy, of not measuring up to the colonizer (104). However, it is doubtful that the long-term exposure to the racist indoctrination could be undone so easily. The least, this assessment stands in contrast to his thorough and detailed discussion of the deep and traumatic impact colonization has on the bodies and the minds of the native population. The all-encompassing structure of oppression as it has been laid out by the colonizer to control the colonized through physical violence, spatial segregation and through the colonialization of their souls and minds at the hands of educational and social institutions. Here, Fanon is particularly critical of the Christian religion and its role in “brainwashing” the colonized, making them believe that there is a benefit in enduring the violence they face in the “Manichean world;” that they need to suppress the aggressive impulses that grow out of their daily mistreatment
The creation of a level-playing field through a violence, would lead to an end of all feelings of inadequacy, of not measuring up to the colonizer (104). However, it is doubtful that the long-term exposure to the racist indoctrination could be undone so easily. The least, this assessment stands in contrast to his thorough and detailed discussion of the deep and traumatic impact colonization has on the bodies and the minds of the native population. The all-encompassing structure of oppression as it has been laid out by the colonizer to control the colonized through physical violence, spatial segregation and through the colonialization of their souls and minds at the hands of educational and social institutions. Here, Fanon is particularly critical of the Christian religion and its role in “brainwashing” the colonized, making them believe that there is a benefit in enduring the violence they face in the “Manichean world;” that they need to suppress the aggressive impulses that grow out of their daily mistreatment