It is to forget that justice can be a relation. The Other is not ours, lest we view the other reflectively, which might merely have been the appropriation of its difference. So the reading of the colonial and the Other will involve an ethics of reading. What is spoken in postcoloniality would be no less than an ethics of discourse. In the Other I recognize difference and the folding of inscription.
Absolute justice is impossible here.
It is this in part that figures the crisis for an ethics of justice. Still, it remains possible in speaking the relation, in thinking the Other, to respect this in which the relation stands in respect of. It is to be respectful, no less. To be just will be to require at the minimum that we listen to what the Other says when she judges. And we would recall in the justice of her judging the silence in our speaking.