June 5, 2026
The French, following its revolution in 1790, gave humanity the enduring slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” They are ideals worth dying for; but the same French turned out to be some of the most bestial colonialists for whom human life meant nothing.
The French colonialists were so vicious that famous African psychiatrist Franz Fanon, who studied the psyche of the French, in his 1961 book ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ advised his fellow Africans: “Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.”
Despite its superpower status, the French had been repeatedly defeated. On November 18, 1803, Black slaves in Haiti roundly defeated its military and seized independence. Until today, 223 years later, France still seeks a pound of flesh from Haiti. It remains bitter.
In the Second World War, France became a subject of Hitlerite Germany and had to be helped by its European cousins to regain independence. Despite such an experience, France returned to the international scene once again to subject its pre-war colonies to vicious rule. But some resisted.
