Colonized Prisoners

After colonization the nation is still at rest. Fanon argues that the indigenous people are never really a part of the new colony. The colonists are always looking for new ways to oppress the colonized, use the colonized, or keep the colonized out of their new society. Even after the colonized people revolt the proletariat stamp out the threat and do nothing to alleviate the tension. The proletariat, which Fanon says is anyone who benefits from the new settlement, encourages the separation from the indigenous people through negative propaganda, police repression, traditions ridiculed, elders discredited, and land taken. Even when the people revolt the colonists have more power and kill the uprising by killing the leaders. To me this sounds like prison. In Foucault's book about discipline he describes prison as a place that keeps people separate, discourages organization, strong police presence to scare and stamp out uprisings and more similarities. No person should feel like a prisoner in their own community. In fact prison would seem better than what these people had to put up with. At least in prison everyone was on a level playing field and there was a chance of getting out of the system.