A towering figure in anti-colonial thought, Frantz Fanon has been a constant source of reference to Canadian academia as higher education attempts to shed its own colonial foundation. A quote on an email signature or placed within a course outline, portrays a professor in a radical light, willing to take risks for the sake of social justice. However, Fanon was not only an intellectual giant, but a person of action. As we witness university students protest the war on Gaza, we also witness the silence or anti-Palestinian posture of higher education in the West. Moreover, the promises associated with the BLM movement seem to have been forgotten. What sense can be made of the praxis call of Fanon’s work and the complicit and/or passive nature of universities when it comes to White supremacy and colonialism? Is it a dichotomy response, or nuanced?