@blackpeopleunitenow: The hardest prison to escape is the one people cannot see. Frantz Fanon understood that oppression does not only happen through laws, violence, or poverty. It also happens when a people are taught to see their own identity as inferior. When their history is erased. When their features are mocked. When their language is called broken. When their culture is treated like something to outgrow. When they are taught that success means becoming closer to the people who once dehumanized them. That is not natural self-hate. It is conditioning. And the most dangerous part is that after enough generations, people can start defending the very ideas that taught them to hate themselves. Psychological liberation begins when we question the mirror we were given. Who taught us what beauty looks like? Who taught us what intelligence sounds like? Who taught us that our history, our culture, and our people were something to be ashamed of? Until we answer those questions, the chains may be gone but the prison can still live in the mind. #FrantzFanon #Psychology #MentalLiberation #DecolonizeTheMind #BlackConsciousness
