A very good reason to be against Franz Fanon is that he is held in very high regard by black, often Western-resident, racism-criticizing contemporary "intellectuals" who have no good theories about how society currently works, or how to technically accomplish anything which successfully moves society forward. Judging people by who they associate with or associates with them is a very good heuristic. Guilt by association is often very very valid.

It is hard to carefully read Franz Fanon if you have very little patience for angry vindictive whining. You can scan his books to get an idea of what he is saying. And then maybe you read multiple reviews of his books to get a broad idea of the public understanding of his work. But his ideas are just as bad as expected: tons and tons of angry vindictive whining. Nowhere does he actually think correctly about how society should ideally work. There is no concrete reflection as to why colonization happened to the colonized (civilizational weakness), what could have been done to prevent it, and correctly, what needs to be done to prevent a recurrence in the future. It is just lots and lots of resentful whining about colonizer white people even while hypocritically chasing white women.

Franz Fanon should be no black person's hero. He has absolutely nothing to offer aside a loser's mentality: whiny, angry, righteous resentment.

Another popular but useless intellectual "black hero" is Frank Wilderson, theorizer of "Afropessimism".

The fundamental point of that work of his is that black people are a permanent slave class and there is nothing anyone can do about that.

That is it.

The glorification of "Afropessimism" by black people on social media probably has happened because black people are largely people of low intellectual sophistication and none of the people who glorify it have ever bothered to carefully read the text to understand what the author is trying to say. They heard the word, thought it sounded cool and then proceeded on a crusade of spewing a whole lot of nonsense everywhere. Black people, even when they seem like sophisticated academia-familiar people, take readily to things like this: slogans and epigrams, things that can be quickly made into a tune... stuff like that. Low-quality, fun-sounding stuff which you do not need to think too much about.

Popular black "intellectuals" are usually people with bad ideas like this who gain a lot of popularity and acceptance on the back of idiotic and pernicious ideas and then get put on pedestals and canonized. Black "intellectuals" with good ideas about how anything works are quickly dismissed and pushed into a random corner. Rarely to be heard from again.

We could move to the arena of politics and governance and there are no true black heroes there either. The black African political heroes are a bunch of post-colonial leaders like Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure i.e leaders who lacked a good understanding and technical competence as to how to actually do anything and were only good at writing whiny text and making whiny anti-imperialist anti-Western speeches.

These guys took over post-independence, shoulders high, under the misconception that they had won independence from fiendish white men. As if they ever could. In reality, they had absolutely no leverage on the colonial powers and colonial Western European countries chose to leave Africa entirely of their own volition due to post World War 2 weakness and ideological evolution (an evolving liberalism).

They had no cogent ideas as to how anything works and ended up having to turn to Europeans anyway — only this time, Eastern — for cogent but ultimately disastrous ideas as to how to run a society.

The same thing is true of post-abolition civil rights leaders in the United States. Instead of trying to create their own independent society, they cared a lot more about fighting for equal rights (extremely unlikely properly in the long term).

The list of the sins of post-abolition civil rights leaders is very long and among them include:

i. Bothering to fight for equality in the polity of the US in the first place post-abolition instead of choosing to create their own independent society, whether in geographical America or elsewhere. It was entirely easily predictable that black ex-slaves and their descendants would never be on equal footing with the white masters and their own descendants in the American state.

ii. Failing to correctly define the identity of freed black slaves and their descendants: defining now free black people strictly as descendants of slaves (with no history before that) whose native land is America and thus remaining in both geographical America and within the US polity post-abolition, and further going ahead to attempt integrating into the society of the slave masters and their descendants.

This error is very likely the origin of contemporary black American dysfunction. It makes total sense that black people would come to reject integration and sudden congeniality with the same people who enslaved themselves and their ancestors.

It has meant that a large part of the population did not want to imbibe the culture and practices of those same white people, deliberately choosing the inverse in lots of cases, therefore spurring anti-intellectualism and other anti-social cultural practices. The people reject lots of cultural behaviors because they are what white people do, and they do not want to do as white people do. It has led to inimically tragic results, but it does make sense in the context of complicated human psychology.

A more correct and functional articulation of the identity of post-abolition black people would have framed black people not strictly as slaves and their descendants with no history before slavery, but as Africans in America for complex historical reasons, but who have a long historied past on the African continent.

There would therefore have been no need to obsess on slavery as an origin point and the psychological necessity to counter the slave masters and their descendants on all grounds which lead to anti-social cultural practices.

iii. Framing the 'reason to be' for black people as anti-supremacy, anti-oppression and other progressive ideals. It has left black people stuck in a poor mental non-agentic state where they then blame an external force for all their problems, and are easily co-opted by non-black liberals into other extreme progressive liberal struggles (gender and culture wars), often as the vanguard.

The low-quality standard of black heroes does not exist only with "intellectuals" and political people historically, it remains true contemporarily and with people like pop-culture heroes — the cool people to aspire to.

There are virtually no good images of black in the media, especially now in an era of total globalization when America overwhelmingly dominates media in nearly every country. The most ringing media representation of black people in popular media are degenerate entertainers (hiphop artistes and sports stars) and desperate women seeking desperate interracial love on dating TV shows.