Bhabha explains that the colonial French presence in Algeria attempt at unveiling Algerian women turns wearing the veil into a protest. Because of the attempt to Europeanize these women, wearing the veil shows a clear support for Algeria and its independence. Although, quite literally, these veils become a place to conceal weaponry. We witnessed this in "The Battle of Algiers," where a woman uses her veil to conceal weaponry through a French checkpoint. Each male Algerian was patted down. Fanon wants "the colonial man" to weaponize their oppression.

This might be a reach, but this reminds me very much of Jordan Peele's film "Us." It could be the use of the word "tethered" but Bhabha uses language like "splits his presence, distorts his outline, breaches his boundaries, repeats his action at a distance, disturbs and divides the very time of his being," which is exactly how uniquely American inequalities are portrayed in the film. Bhabha has an idea of "ambivalence" - that those who are colonized can have a split in their identity. Partly their colonizers identity, partly their own identity, the self and the other. These ideas are deeply etched into the colonial identity. Fanon wants to snap the tether.

It is interesting how Bhabha is evoking the values of The Enlightenment. It is becoming clear that these values of high functioning society -the will of the people as a whole- cannot exist without this dark underbelly. In this introduction, it is clear that this dark underbelly is racism. By associating civil society with innate ethics, it separates society from negative ideas like madness, self-hate, treason, etc. Fanon believes that people view these things are seen as random occurrences with no connection to society instead of a part of it.

Native African or Asian person who "evolved" to become more europeanized

"Putting on stage"