Blacks obsessed with white? Author stirs controversy with new tell-it-all novel

A show of hands represents those who have witnessed racism on campus during the Black Thursday rally to protest recent hate crimes at San Jose State University, Thursday Nov. 21.

“For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white,” reads a quote from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.

Cynics could easily say Fanon, a French West Indian psychiatrist, perceived blacks as desperados running away from their actual identities. But the current development in the beauty industry in Africa vindicates the author.