Césaire’s vision was like Fanon’s in The Wretched of the Earth, where the violence of the colonizer begat the violence of the colonized. Perhaps that was the only way to get rid of the colonizer, but where did it leave the colonized, infected with the parting gift of the colonizer, the venereal disease of hatred? The triumphant among the formerly colonized would turn this hatred of the colonizer into a barely disguised self-hatred for letting themselves be colonized for so long. They would not take out the self-hatred on themselves; they would take it out on the rest of the formerly colonized
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