Sartre on Algeria

apply it where you will

Sartre points to the real issue
at stake:

"This rebellion is not merely challenging the power of the settlers, but

their very being. For most Europeans in Algeria, there are two
complementary
and inseparable truths: the colonists are backed by divine right, the
natives are sub-human. This is a mythical interpretation of reality,
since
the riches of the one are built on the poverty of the other. In this way

exploitation puts the exploiter at the mercy of his victim, and the
dependence itself begets racialism. It is a bitter and tragic fact that,
for
the Europeans in Algeria, being a man means first and foremost
superiority
to the Moslems. But what if the Moslem finds in his turn that his
manhood
depends on equality with the settler? It is then that the European
begins to
feel his very existence diminished and cheapened."

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
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