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Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

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Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi

Born: December 15, 1920
Died: May 22, 2020 (aged 99)
Bio: Albert Memmi was a French writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origin.
Known for:
  1. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957)
  2. The pillar of salt (1955)
  3. Decolonization and the Decolonized (2006)
  4. La Statue De Sel (1953)
  5. Portrait of a Jew (1962)

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