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His final words became a rallying cry for the Black Lives
Matter movement that protested around the US in the wake
of Garner’s death and the death of black teenager Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a month later. (Laughland)
Language Please !
When a black man arrives in France it is not only the language that
changes him. He is changed also because it is from France that he
received his knowledge of Mostesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire, but
also because France gave him his physicians, his department head,
his innumerable little functionaries. (Forewords by Ziauddin Sardar
and Homi K. Bhabha ,XV)
Caliban at his best
CALIBAN: In the first place, that's not true. You didn't teach
me a thing! Except to jabber in your own language so that I
could understand your orders... (Cesairé, 11-12)
● Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles L. Markmann, PDF,
Pluto P, 2008.
● Fei, Liang. "A Call for Freedom: Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest." Canadian Social Science,
vol. 3, no. 5,
http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/view/j.css.1923669720070305.021/465.
www.cscanada.net/index.php/css/index.
● Laughland, Oliver. "'I Can't Breathe': NYPD Fires Officer Who Put Eric Garner in
Chokehold." The Guardian, 20 Aug. 2019,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/19/eric-garner-daniel-pantaleo-nypd-officer.