Toward the African Revolution

If culture is the combination of motor and mental behavior patterns arising from the encounter of man with nature and with his fellow-man, it can be said that racism is indeed a cultural element. No inner revolution can explain this necessity for racism to seek more subtle forms, to evolve. Racism bloats and disfigures the face of the culture that practices it. Literature, the plastic arts, songs for shopgirls, proverbs, habits, patterns, whether they set out to attack it or to vulgarize it, restore racism. Racism stares one in the face for it so happens that it belongs in a characteristic whole: that of the shameless exploitation of one group of men by another which has reached a higher stage of technical development. The end of race prejudice begins with a sudden incomprehension. The occupant&s;s spasmed and rigid culture, now liberated, opens at last to the culture of people who have really become brothers.