The disaster of the man of color lies in the fact that he was enslaved. … The disaster and the inhumanity of the white man lie in the fact that somewhere he has killed man. … And even today they subsist, to organize this dehumanization rationally. But I as a man of color, to the extent that it becomes possible for me to exist absolutely, do not have the right to lock myself into a world of retroactive reparations.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 874