Fanon and the 10 Point Plan

            It comes as no surprise that we are examining the ten point plan after reading Fanon. This is unsurprising because I think the sentiment of African Americans at the time of the Black Panthers is similar to what Fanon is observing. Both groups are not able to involve themselves economically and politically into their respective countries and both are experiencing the use of identity politics. In America or in decolonized countries, the lower classes are in many ways intentionally exploited for the personal gain of the upper class. Using racism as a tool further perpetuates ethnicity as a dividing line. I think that although the 10 point plan is highly socialist, at the heart of it they seek recognition by the government of their demands, which lack almost any consideration whatsoever.             

Similarly, in decolonization, I think that Fanon wants everyone to have a real voice in how the new country will be run as opposed to letting the middle class assume power in a greedy struggle for dominance. Fanon wanting the needs of the people to be represented is right in line with the what the ten point plan desires. The ten point plan expresses how black people are simply fed up with how they are represented by the government because they know that their interests do not receive the consideration they deserve due to the policy deeply engrained in American government to exploit lower class black Americans.