Frantz Fanon, born on this day in 1925, was a West Indian Pan-Africanist philosopher and Algerian revolutionary most known for his text The Wretched of the Earth.
Fanon was born to an affluent family on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony which is still under French control today. As a teenager, he was taught by communist anti-colonial thinker Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008).
Fanon was exposed to much European racism during World War II. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, a Nazi government was set up in Martinique by French collaborators, whom he describedas taking off their masks and behaving like "authentic racists".
Fighting for the Allied forces, Fanon also observed European women liberated by black soldiers preferring to dance with fascist Italian prisoners rather than fraternize with their liberators.
While completing a residency in psychiatry in France completing, Fanon wrote and published his first book, "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952), an analysis of the negative psychological effects of colonial subjugation upon black people.
Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954, Fanon joined the Front de Libération Nationale, a nationalist Algerian party. Working at a French hospital in Algeria, Fanon became responsible for treating the psychological distress of the French troops who carried out torture to suppress anti-colonial resistance, as well as their Algerian victims.
While organizing for Algerian independence in Ghana, Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia that would ultimately kill him. He spent the last year of his life writing his most famous work, "The Wretched of the Earth" (French: Les Damnés de la Terre). The text provides a psychiatric analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization and examines the possibilities of anti-colonial liberation
Following a trip to the Soviet Union to treat his leukemia, Fanon came to the U.S. in 1961 for further treatment in a visit arranged by the CIA. Fanon died in Bethesda, Maryland on December 6th, 1961 under the name of "Ibrahim Fanon", a Libyan nom de guerre he had assumed in order to enter a hospital after being wounded during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front.
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look if you people wanna keep telling yourselves mayonnaise and pasta is nasty then w/e you can just keep being wrong all your lives i guess
like for real, what are you all, a bunch of Italians? You need Anthony Gabagool or Pope Molestius XVIII to tell you it's okay? people put oil on pasta, they put fucking egg yolk on pasta, guess what mayonnaise is
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keep on being ignorant
i like to make and eat "good food" and don't cook based on vibes and I promise you're 100x the fucking cracker for going "oh gross mayonnaise" like a picky child 
i'm white, i fucking love mayonnaise. but it doesn't go on pasta, that's depraved
you'd think so and I would have agreed once upon a time, but have you tried it? It's really good. And the recipes I linked will make like a dozen servings from a pound of pasta. And it's eaten cold like potato salad so when you want to slam into those leftovers you don't even have to heat that shit up
I do recommend adding some chopped bacon or diced cooked ham or if you're vegan they make tofu flavored like bacon and I haven't tried it but I'm thinkin itd be SUPER DANK
Edit: i just finished eating some rosticciana and ratatouille i made and tbh im still about to go get me some pasta salad. Im actually kind of annoyed i told my gf her parents could have some of it 😫
If you haven't made this shit then you literally don't even know, so don't talk to me like you do
You mean pasta/macaroni salad? Who's mad about that?
Im mad about it! I posted a thread and like 2 people are ew gross about it
macaroni salad > potato salad i will die on this hill
If we're talking mayo based potato salad then sure, vinaigrette p-sal absolutely sweeps macaroni salad tho
No idea what that is but it sounds Delicious
Red wine vinegar with olive oil, salt pepper and oregano and a bit of Dijon stirred up a bunch
Yum
Its super easy as well.
It is really good honestly. Ive been combining these two chef john recipes, one for a "hawaiian" pasta salad and another with dijon (and more veg) and it's great
What gets me though is all the "food experts" acting like it's inherently gross when I bet they wouldn't have an issue with potato salad!
That sounds perfectly fine. I believe potato salad is best with a red wine and Dijon vinaigrette. I did used to make a pretty rad sweet potato salad for a place i worked with dried cranberries, vegan mayo and nuts. That shit was tite
yim yum