Aime Fernand Cesaire
“First we must study how colonization…the continent proceeds towards savagery.”
A post-NATO world has exacerbated geographic tensions and Libya is on the brink of collapsing into civil war.
LAMB, Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, December 30-32, 2011 (FRANKLIN, “Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?”, Counterpunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/30/will-2012-bring-tribal-war-to-libya/)
“The weather in Tripoli this New Year’s weekend is… back but many of his good policies will return ehshallah.”
The legacy of intervention into Libya will result in more wars extending far past Libya. The most probable scenario is collapse into civil war followed by a US humanitarian intervention which historical record indicates will worsen the crisis.
Gibbs, professor of history at the University of Arizona, January 12, 2012 (David, Foreign Policy in Focus, Libya and the New Warmongering, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/12-10)
The NATO intervention in Libya is likely to… accountability for the consequences of their advocacy.
Frantz Fanon would describe the situation in Libya as a still born state, a liberation that will inevitably fail because it alienates Libyans. Renewed assistance for Libya is a charity-based form of dependence that installs neo-colonial domination based on racial hierarchy.
Mendès-France, member of the Administrative Council of the Frantz Fanon Foundation, 12/8/11 (Mireille Fanon, “Africa: Frantz Fanon and the Current Multiple Crises”, http://allafrica.com/stories/201112090899.html)
After half-a-century, the toll of independence in the… Is our world free of dispossession, alienation and injustice? He calls on us to resist and never surrender.
The result of the current trajectory of US intervention into Libya is white democratic Messianism.
Steve Martinot 03, lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs, 03, “The Cultural Roots of Interventionism in the US,” Social Justice Vol. 30, No. 1 (2003), pp. 19-20, Marvin
“Since World War II, the watchwords of a white "civilizing mission"… obviates democracy through a violation of sovereignty.”
White supremacy conditions the possibility violence. There is no terminal explanation for white supremacy. It is a self-referential logic that is nothing but its daily practice
Sexton & Martinot, 2003 (Jared & Steven Social Identities, Volume 9, Number 2, page 175)
“The gratuitousness of its repetition bestows upon white supremacy… contentless logic; it is, in fact, nothing but its very practices.”
Specific Impact Scenario’s aren’t necessary. The use of spectacular events of white supremacy are a mask behind which the daily operations of white supremacist terror proceed.
Sexton & Martinot, 2003 (Jared & Steven Social Identities, Volume 9, Number 2, page172-173)
“The dichotomy between white ethics and its irrelevance to the violence… the masks behind which the daily operations of white supremacist terror proceed.”
Calculations that attempt to separate and prioritize doomsday scenarios over racial justice, ignore that the world has already ended for people of color. Focus on survivability obfuscates the nuclear war waged on a daily basis against non-white bodies.
Omolade 84, Barbara, Calvin College’ first dean of multicultural affairs, “Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust”, Women’s Studies Quarterly vol. 12, No. 2, Marvin, Mr Purp!!
“To raise these issues effectively the movements for nuclear disarmament… gained the ability to eat and to provide for the future of our people.”
Our discussion of Libya is one marked with colonial violence based on the gratuitousness of white supremacy. What course of action is most appropriate given the Fanon premise of colonization? The answer is none. Only a total collapse of Libya into violence can bring the necessary decolonization that restores the very humanity stolen from Libya by white supremacist colonialism. A revolutionary pedagogy of non-compliance provides Libya a chance to reset. Decolonization must be our 1st priority in all settings.
Western presence in Africa is toxic. There is no functional approach to Libya that should be affirmed
Doucet, faculty member of the Santa Monica College English Department, 2011 (W. Yusef, Free Libya is Green Libya: Supporting the Real Libyan Revolution, Nov 11, http://www.voxunion.com/free-libya-is-green-libya-supporting-the-real-libyan-revolution/)
“Libya is the northern front in the re-assault on Africa… NATO has bombed both land and water with depleted uranium.”
We need a revolutionary pedagogy of non-compliance with US colonialism.
Stephen Sheehi May 2011 The Social Relations of Islamophobia and the Role of the Academic
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/TME1/1413/the-social-relations-of-islamophobia-and-the-role-)
“The absence of a vanguardism in mass movements should… economies that enfranchise oligarchies and their sycophant “middle classes.”
Decolonization is the creation of a new human agency
Fanon, Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, 1961(Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, p. 35-36)
“Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences… That is why, if we try to describe it, all decolonization is successful.”
Violence is inevitable in decolonization. It’s the only means of true decolonization
Fanon, Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, 1961(Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, p. 36)
“The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets… this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.”
