Amanda Kluveld van de Volkskrant 12

Wat hebben deze twee gemeen? Niet hun huidskleur, maar wel hun reactionaire opvattingen, die de pijlers zijn van de eeuwenoude blanke heerschappij over de aarde.

Robin D.G. Kelley: 'Cesaire sets out to prove that the colonial mission to "civilize" the primitive is just a smoke screen. If anything, colonialism results in the massive destruction of whole societies -- societies that not only function at a high level of sophistication and complexity, but that might offer the West valuable lessons about how we might live together and remake the modern world... Cesaire provocatively points out that Europeans tolerated "Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack." So the real crime of fascism was the application to white people of colonial procesdures "which until then had been reserved exlusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'niggers' of Africa."

Opvallend is hoe racisme en fascisme zo diep geinternaliseerd kunnen worden dat zelfs gekleurde Nederlanders als Kluveld het niet meer kunnen zien. En dat is voor Spruyt en de zijnen natuurlijk een mooie opsteker.