Soul Trained
We used to dance together
in the soul train line
we were couples in sync
enjoying each other
we slow danced touching
like steppers still do
at some point it changed
first slow dancers separated
then we danced alone
finally the soul train line
became two
before we knew it
we were dancing to
totally different beats
our souls on different streets
now our children think its strange
to hold each other
when we dance
or love.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation
The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy):
A Psycho-Genetic Theory and World Outlook By Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing Psychiatrist
From Her Book THE ISIS PAPERS - THE KEYS TO THE COLORS
***UNIFIED FIELD THEORY Of PSYCHIATRY***
This new theory of psychiatry is: a "Unified Field Theory Of Psychiatry.” Western social and behavioral science, particularly psychiatry, has been content with, behavior fragment analyst. Heretofore, no Western behavioral scientist had recognized, the single connecting thread of logic permeating seemingly unrelated phenomena.
It is a psychiatry that PERCEIVES a definable whole, global system of behavior-energy, wherein all major and minor, patterns of behavior within the field can be understood, and predicted, because the ultimate objective of the system remains constant. Underlying interrelationships between seemingly unconnected patterns of behavior are visible.
There is a kind of religion in science; the religion of one who believes, there is ORDER and HARMONY in the universe, and every event can be explained in a rational way as, the product of some previous event; every effect must have its cause.
The body of knowledge known as science takes the position that, all observable phenomena can be explained.
Theories and definitions function as efficient and effective tools to be utilized as guides for changing social reality.
It is possible to understand, in depth, the patterns and system of behavior encountered in the individual and in the broad collective.
Behavior is not an individual affair, for when multiplied by thousands, it has profound effects on the live's, future existence and well being of the total people.
Behavioral scientists serve humanity, when we adequately analyze the fundamental causation and logic of these "patterns of behavior."
The concept of, a unified field theory, is derived from the work of the great mathematical physicist Albert Einstein, who searched for a theory that in mathematical terms - by a single set of equations - would combine all of the different manifestations of energy phenomena in the universe. In Einstein's own words:
***UNIFIED FIELD THEORY Of PSYCHIATRY Cont.***
...to resolve the duality of natural laws into unity...lies in the fact that...two sets of laws - those which control gravitation and those which control the phenomena of electricity and magnetism...must be based upon one general law.
...The relativity theory reduced to one formula all laws which govern space, time, and gravitation. My work is to reduce to one formula the explanation of the field of gravity and the field of electromagnetism.
...The force which moves electrons in their ellipse about the nuclei of atoms is the same force which moves our earth in its annual course about the sun, and is the same force which brings us the rays of light and heat...
"Determinacy" concludes that, in any finite energy system - no matter how seemingly complex at the surface level - a unitary law can be discerned, simply because, there is specific order in the universe, and thus order in any given energy system. A unitary law reveals the nature of that specific order.
Confusion is a result of, failure to see, the interconnections that exist between many seemingly isolated, disconnected behavior-energy phenomena.
To unveil, the total unified form, structured by interconnections and their fundamental cause, may be said in the reverse order: failure, to perceive, the total outline of a dynamic, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to make sense of isolated behavioral patterns, within the total behavioral system framework.
Once the outline of context has been established, the order in which the small pieces are to be placed immediately becomes clear.
A total behavior-energy system can be seen and understood as a "unified field" of energy phenomena.
Once that unified field of behavior-energy is perceived and described, setting forth its fundamental cause and dynamic, the once seemingly isolated, little understood, often unexamined, individual phenomena of behavior-energy within the field, are seen in brilliant coherence, whereas before, they were neither visualized nor understood adequately. The underlying interrelationships between seemingly unconnected patterns of behavior are visible.
The global white supremacy system, racism, is a highly specific system of behavior-energy. The force and energy of this system, through its ultimate goal objective, determines the dominant patterns of behavior in the world today.
The global white supremacy system/culture constitutes a finite, "UNIFIED BEHAVIOR-ENERGY FIELD." The single, unitary Law of white GENETIC SURVIVAL "governs" its origin and its continuance.
Knowledge of the unitary, causative law that GOVERNS this FIELD, enables the PREDICTION of future behavior energy patterns within it.
Most of the major behavior-energy entities, myths and symbols included, in the white supremacy system/culture are related to the single underlying law governing the origin and continued existence of Western civilization.
All major and minor, behavior-energy of the global white collective, conforms to the basic behavior-energy "EQUATION" of "white over Non-white, or white power, over Non-white powerlessness. This is the necessary power, or energy "EQUATION" for white genetic SURVIVAL.
***PSYCHO-GENETIC Theory & World Outlook***
Black people need a law to guide us in, the evolved energy system of the white supremacy behavior organization, in order to facilitate our movement in that system.
The color-line, racism, has controlled events in the 20th century, and prior centuries. The "solution" to the problem of the color-line, will regulate events in the 21st century and beyond.
A basis for, the "solution" to the problem of the color line, rest in an adequate analysis of, the nature of the color line - the exact nature of local and global racism.
There is never consistent motion towards problem "solution" because to do so, would CHALLENGE and alter, the power dynamic of oppression. Thus, high-lever FEAR is set in motion.
During the past 400 years, that Black Men in the U.S. have been forced into PASSIVE and COOPERATIVE SUBMISSION to white men, the major strategy has been the installation of an overwhelming "FEAR."
An extremely high level of "FEAR" and a profound sense of vulnerability of existence leads to, in-effectual patterns of "CIRCULAR-THOUGHT." Problems perceived are avoided and NEVER solved.
"CIRCULAR-THOUGHT" means moving, from problem perception, AWAY from "problem solution," down a diversionary path, and back again to problem perception.
Black people, particularly in the U.S., succumb to "CIRCULAR-THOUGHT." There is not only, a failure to approach problem solution, but there is a, STUBBORN REFUSAL even to LOOK directly at THE PROBLEM.
Black people in the U.S. reject, conscious RECOGNITION of, the global white supremacy system, its absolute necessity of Non-white oppression.
Every energy and psychological effort is expended, individually and collectively, to "BLOCK OUT" and avoid focusing on the true problem of white/Black confrontation - white supremacy.
Amongst black people, there is, the near, total COLLAPSE and LOSS - individually and collectively - of the ability to effectively perceive, analyze and propose solutions to, the problem of white supremacy and its implications for continuing black powerlessness and social disintegration.
Black people are without a perception or analysis of racism, or of a scientific counter-to-racism. Black people, therefore, do not know WHAT to do with themselves.
We are witnessing a collective black floundering and an IDEOLOGICAL VACUUM and dis-orientation.
Effective patterns of, direct "LINEAR-THOUGHT," moves continuously forward in straight line progress, from problem perception, and depth analysis, to proposed conclusive modes of problem solution. This holds for individuals as well as collectives.
A perspective that examines, the patterns of relationships, between whites and "Non-whites" worldwide must be developed.
All major patterns of people behavior, within an evolved system of behavior, can be decoded and understood once the ULTIMATE GOAL OBJECTIVE of the evolved system of behavior is decoded and understood.
Every "social system," including its reflected culture, has a PRIORITY OBJECTIVE, articulated clearly, or disguised hypocritically.
A "social system" is a, "behavioral-system" consisting of specifically designed "patterns of behavior," logic, thought, speech, action and emotional response, structured consciously and unconsciously, which are used as social tools to achieve the PRIORITY-OBJECTIVE of a people.
These "behavior-patterns" are carried forth in all areas of people activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war.
White supremacy is the single PRIORITY-OBJECTIVE of the world's dominant "social system."
Racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a, "UNIVERSALLY OPERATING SYSTEM" of white supremacy and domination, in which the majority of the world's white people participate.
ALL white peoples have the spoken or unspoken MANDATE to participate actively in their collective struggle for global white genetic SURVIVAL.
Racism (white supremacy) is defined as:
The local and global power system, structured and maintained by person's who classify themselves as white, consciously or unconsciously.
This system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war).
The ultimate purpose of this system is, to prevent white genetic annihilation on Earth - a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as, Non-white (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people. All Non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetically recessive white-skinned people.
Racism is WAR AGAINST Black people, against the Black family, against Black Men, against Black Women, and "against" Black children.
The concept of a "system" of white DOMINATION over the world's "Non-white" peoples explains the predicament and dilemma of "Non-white" social reality.
The word "race" is translated correctly as "organization," the sole purpose of which is, to maintain white DOMINATION and WORLD CONTROL.
There is only one functioning racism in the known world - white supremacy. The only valid operational definition of racism, is white supremacy.
Together, the system and culture of white supremacy produce, the phenomenon of racism.
The goal of the white supremacy system is, none other than, the establishment, maintenance, expansion and refinement of WORLD DOMINATION, by members of a group, that classifies itself as, the white "race."
At least three-quarter of the people of the world are "Non-white," and the members of this "Non-white" majority population are subjected to domination throughout their lives, either directly or indirectly, by a tiny minority of the world's people who classify themselves as "white."
What possible motivational force, operative at, the individual and group levels, can account for the evolution of, these "patterns of social behavioral practice," that function in all areas of human activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war)?
White supremacy domination and oppression of all Non-white people is essential for global white genetic SURVIVAL.
If white-skinned peoples had not evolved a global system in which they established power over the world's Non-white majority, the white collective would run the risk of white GENETIC ANNIHILATION.
The entire Western civilization dynamic is, fundamentally linked to, the fear of white genetic annihilation, and the need (experienced by the global white collective) for the continuous battle against the genetically dominant global majority.
"One drop of black blood, black genetic material, makes one black!"
The term "Western" means "white." "Western" has become a comfortable euphemism or code for the word "white." The terms "Western civilization" and "Western culture" specifically refer to the civilization and culture evolved, determined, directed, developed and controlled by people who classify themselves as "white."
NON-white peoples collectively constitute, the global NUMERICAL MAJORITY. This skin-pigmented GLOBAL MAJORITY is, GENETICALLY DOMINANT to the genetically recessive whites, and GENETICALLY they can ANNIHILATE the whites.
White people represent, in NUMERICAL TERMS, a very SMALL MINORITY of the world's people. "White" itself is the very absence of any ability to produce color. The quality of whiteness is, a genetic INADEQUACY or genetic deficiency, based upon the genetic inability to produce the skin pigments of melanin, responsible for all skin color.
Color is normal for human beings and color absence is abnormal. Color absence acts always as a genetic recessive to, the dominant genetic factor of color-production. Color always "annihilates" the Non-color, white.
The white or color-deficient Europeans respond psychologically, with a profound sense of NUMERICAL INADEQUACY and color inferiority, in confrontations with the MAJORITY of the world's people - possessed of varying degrees of color-producing capacity.
This psychological response of INADEQUACY, conscious or unconscious, based on external appearance, makes whites defensively develop an uncontrollable sense of hostility and aggression, directed towards all peoples with the capacity to produce melanin. With the most profound aggressions directed towards Black people, who have the greatest color potential and are the most envied and feared in genetic color competition.
***REACTION FORMATION***
The experience of NUMERICAL INADEQUACY and genetic color inferiority causes whites to implement a psychological defense mechanism, called "reaction formation." A response that converts, at the psychological level, something desired and envied but wholly unattainable, into something discredited and despised.
Whites, desiring to have skin color, but unable to attain it, claimed, consciously or unconsciously, that skin color was DISGUSTING to them, and began attributing negative qualities to color - especially to blackness. The white psyche could not confront the sense of white body shame CONSCIOUSLY.
The fact of color-envy must remain REPRESSED, color-desire can never be mentioned, or the entire white psychological structure collapses. While whites are saying they are superior, they UNCONSCIOUSLY feel inferior to the melanin pigmented global majority.
An additional psychological defense maneuver, utilized by whites has been that of PROJECTION. Feeling extreme hostility and hate towards Non-whites, whites began the pattern of stating that, Non-whites hated them.
Whites experience, psychological discomfort in situations where, in confronting their neighbors of color, they face their color INADEQUACY daily.
The situation of mass proximity to Blacks is intolerable to whites because Blacks are inherently more than equal. People of color always will have something highly visible that whites never can have or produce - the genetic factor of color. Always, in the presence of color, whites will feel genetically inferior.
The mass INABILITY of whites to LIVE and attend school in the presence of Non-whites is expressed in the patterns of Black and white housing and education throughout this country and the world.
White personality, in the presence of color, can be stabilized only by keeping Blacks and other Non-whites in inferior positions.
In a social system designed to achieve white domination, the experience of that system molds white children so that they may function in the role of the oppressors, or the "FUNCTIONAL SUPERIORS" - because that is what white supremacy is supposed to mean: that whites WILL function in a superior way as compared to Non-whites.
The same social system simultaneously will mold all children Non-white to play the role of the "FUNCTIONAL INFERIOR," or oppressed. This is why a white racist social system is completely incapable of providing total equality of opportunity to Blacks. Such a system must, for its maintenance, produce differential levels of functioning for whites and Non-whites.
INFERIORIZATION is the conscious, deliberate and systematic PROCESS utilized by a racist (white supremacy) social system, conducted through all of its major and minor institutions to mold specific peoples within that system into FUNCTIONAL INFERIORS.
The difficulty whites have in according Non-whites socio-political and economic equality, within the white supremacy structure, stems neither from a moral issue, nor from political or economic need, but from the fundamental sense of their own unequal condition - in regards to their numerical INADEQUACY and color deficiency.
Whites compensate for their color INADEQUACY, by placing themselves in socially superior positions. The color INADEQUACY of whiteness necessitates a social structure based on white superiority. Only tokenism can be tolerated by such a motivational psychological state.
The myth of white superiority is exploded in the presence of equitable social and economic opportunity.
The thrust towards superiority over peoples of color, the drive towards material accumulation, the drive towards a technological culture and the drive towards power, are all cornerstones of, the universal white supremacy culture, and they are responses to the core psychological sense of INADEQUACY. An INADEQUACY rooted in the in-ability to produce melanin. This genetic state is, in actuality, a variant of albinism.
White skin is a form of albinism. There is no difference, microscopically, between the white skin of a white person and the skin of a person designated as an albino.
The first albino mutations (whites) were produced from Blacks in Africa. These albinos, were chased north by the Blacks or wandered north away from the intense Sun so that they could survive.
Albinism, causes the skin to turn white and was considered a serious disease in ancient Africa. The victims of albinism were cast out from the skin-pigmented peoples. The marriage of albinos with one another produced what is now know as the white race.
The original rejection by, the Black mothers and Black fathers in Africa of the albino, white, mutant offspring, were forced to try to love themselves if they were to survive; but they could not arrive at a point of true self-acceptance and self-esteem because there was never parental and group acceptance or validation at the time whites mutated from the Black parents.
The failure, if not refusal, to perceive, the repressed conceptualization of the white self as, the albino offspring from Black progenitors, is an inability to place the "white self" in the total perspective of the "hue-man" family and the totality of the Universe, without admission of the genetic defective status of skin whiteness. The white collective, therefore, must deny the meaning and reality of Africa as its own birth place and the point of origin of its own civilization.
Because whites failed to be accepted by the original Black parents, they evolved the "compensatory" pattern of white supremacy.
From the very first experiences of the mutant albino population, with the recognition that the condition of skin albinism (whiteness) could be ANNIHILATED genetically, by those with black and brown skins - genetic dominance over a genetic recessive such as albinism - there has been white fear of Black genetic POWER, or white male fear and envy of the Black, penis, phallus and entire genital apparatus.
The "testicles" are those aspects of the male anatomy that contain the dominant genetic material, the penis is the vehicle that transports the genetic material, which initiates the production of life and skin color.
The total white group's conscious or unconscious, awareness of their genetic weakness and potential ANNIHILATION became even more pronounced - as a cultural theme - as European whites began circum-navigating the globe in the 15th century; and discovered that they were a TINY MINORITY on a planet wherein all others had colored skins.
Black males, lynched by, white males, had their genitals attacked, removed and taken away by white males - carried with them on their person. The concern/fear is with the power of the genetic material in the black testicles; thus black genitalia, must be attacked and destroyed. But also there is envy and a desire for possession of same.
White men, desire, the black penis, more than their own, why else cut off, the black genitals and take them home.
There is "penis envy" in the white supremacy culture, but it began with, the white male's envy of, the genetic power residing in the Black male's testicles and phallus.
The sense of his genetic weakness or inferiority compared to Black males - because Black is always genetically dominant to white - caused the white male to attempt to PROJECT "inferiority" on white females as well.
The white male's insistence that, he is superior to, the white female, and his forcing this psychological dynamic in white family life, has caused the white female, to wish that, she could share his power and his status and symbolically, to have a penis of her own.
It is, white males, who have the "primary penis envy," manifested in their envy of Black males' penises. They then "PROJECT" their sense of inferiority onto, white females, causing them, to develop "secondary penis envy."
As the mothers, wives and sisters of white males, white females, consciously or unconsciously, have always understood, white males' envy of Black males.
The above genetic dynamics are, NEVER DISCUSSED, directly and OVERTLY within, the white supremacy system/culture. The discussion does continue, COVERTLY, and at the UNCONSCIOUS level, and permeates the logic sequences within the culture.
Within the framework of a given system and culture, certain perceptions may exist, that never are acknowledge overtly and certain ideas, thoughts, concepts and theories that are uttered rarely, if ever.
These perceptions, words, ideas, concepts and theories that are repressed or channeled into the UNCONSCIOUS level of the mind, becomes an entire world of ideas treated as though they never existed in the form of concrete reality.
Through the world of SYMBOLISM we gain INSIGHT into the world of REALITY that must be mastered.
The data from the environment that is ENCODED, and REPRESSED to the UNCONSCIOUS level, does not disappear. This REPRESSED DATA becomes the substratum from which "SYMBOLS" can be formed.
If the Ego cannot acknowledge, the presence of a particular feeling about something, it tries everything in its power to banish it---relegating it to the UNCONSCIOUS, though failing, to diminish its power.
The Ego may not want to see, some things, consciousness passes on to it. These incidents, or ideas, are then repressed, and disappear from consciousness, into the UN-CONSCIOUS.
Symbols are highly abstracted complex, condensed, coded messages, that impact and reach unconscious and subconscious levels.
Once the symbol is formed, it is capable of acting upon the mind, which receives it as a data message of energy.
Symbols communicate from one person's unconscious mind, to the unconscious mind of another. Such communication transpires at unconscious levels when the conscious mind level of functioning cannot bear to address certain issues.
Symbols, agitate, the unconscious, sending out energy responses in the form of thought, speech, action and emotions.
Symbolism is "the art of thinking in images;" an art now lost to civilized consciousness, but not to unconsciousness; which compensate for the conscious lost.
"Symbolic," implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has a wider unconscious aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained. As the mind explores the symbol, it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.
These complex symbols are usually related to, the deepest cultural themes of a people, and have significant messages to convey about, the people's and culture's, "reason for being."
Symbolism in, a power system/culture conveys powerful and subtle messages about, how and why the culture came into being, and what the people must do to survive and maintain itself.
Symbolism is, the glue, that holds, the individual and collective psyche of a people and its culture together.
White genetic survival, through the possession and control of the Black male's genital apparatus, is carried forth UN-CONSCIOUSLY in the precepts and practices of the global white supremacy system's primary religion - Christianity. It is in, religious activity that, the highest level of "SYMBOLIC discussion" emerges.
The essence of the story of Jesus, (who only later was referred to as "Christ") was that he was a poor Black man, a carpenter, a member of the Non-white, oppressed population, whose ideas as expressed in the Beatitudes, threatened the power, control and authority of the conquering Romans.
If Jesus and the other Blacks, got out of control, the Roman white SKIN, the whites, could be ANNIHILATED genetically.
Then as now, under white supremacy domination, Jesus, the Non-white, was turned over to the white oppressors, who then USED some of his fellow-victimized, self-hating, Non-whites who wished to ingratiate themselves to the white oppressors - to kill him.
Jesus, this Black man, was then hung on a cross, a peculiar invention of the Roman (white) psyche. The Roman white psyche UNCONSCIOUSLY fearing ANNIHILATION, by the Black male genitals UNCONSCIOUSLY invented an instrument or weapon of Black male destruction, exactly, in ABSTRACT FORM, analogous to the part of the Black male's anatomy that whites knew could destroy them. A highly abstracted line drawing of the male genitalia, is a "CROSS."
Worshiping a suffering, dying Jesus on the cross, is fully comprehended, when it is understood that, Jesus was a Black Man, and, the "black wooden cross" represents, "the Black male genitalia separated from the man."
By controlling the Black, Non-white male genitals, which the "cross" symbolizes, whites have conquered Black and the entire Non-white world majority.
Jesus, a Black Man, shed his Black GENETIC material in a crucifixion - which in reality was, a castration and a killing - so that the genetic white SKIN, RECESSIVE population, in fear of is genetic white SKIN ANNIHILATION, could be saved - genetically SURVIVE.
As long as, the genetic (SKIN) material from, the Black male, is spilling on the ground from castration, whites can remain "white as snow."
Only by the removal and destruction of the Black male genitals can whites have "everlasting life" in the most fundamental GENETIC sense.
Jesus, had to be rationalized as willing to make this, "castration-sacrifice" - giving up his genes (that produce SKIN COLOR) so that whites might live.
Jesus died on the cross and suffered so that "we" WHITES can be "saved" - SURVIVE. Jesus "shedding his blood" Black GENETIC MATERIAL or GENES, so that "we-whites" can "live" and have "everlasting life."
Oh precious is the flow,
That makes me WHITE as snow
No other font I know
Nothing but the BLOOD of Jesus.
The "core dynamic" of white genetic survival, eventually leads whites to, "a major act of genocide" - destruction of genes of Non-white people - or toward "genocidal imperatives." The fundamental meaning of the word "genocide" is "killing genes."
In the collective white psyche, Black males represent the greatest threat to white genetic survival, because only males can impose sexual intercourse, and Black males have the greatest genetic potential, of all Non-whites, to cause white genetic ANNIHILATION.
Thus, Black males MUST be attacked and DESTROYED in a power system designed to assure white genetic survival. In the white supremacy mind-set, consciously or unconsciously, Black males MUST BE DESTROYED in significant numbers.
Failing to comprehend the white supremacy system and its ultimate goal of white genetic survival, Black People also fail to grasp, the deeper sense of what actually is occurring in front of our eyes. We do not realize that the massive deaths of Black Males constitute the GENOCIDE of Black PEOPLE, as it takes Black Males to make Black BABIES and ensure future Black Generations.
Such a genocide occurred in Nazi Germany (1933-1945), wherein the "Semite" and gypsy populations were CLASSIFIED as "Non-whites" and therefore destroyed.
The word "Semite" is from the Latin prefix, "semi" meaning "half" - half Black and half white, and that means mulatto, Non-white. Semites of the Jewish religion, are persons from Africa, who were half black and half white.
SEMITES were the products of the genetic mixture produced when white Greek and Roman soldiers invaded Africa and raped African women, who were Black. SEMITE means the same as MULATTO.
Jews who left Africa, and went to Europe, were "colored" people when they arrived there hundreds of years ago. Semites who left Africa and eventually attempted to settle in Europe, miscegenated further with white-skinned people in the continent of Europe and continued to lose much of their MELANIN skin-pigmentation. However, because of the dominant character of the African Black genotype, including hair texture and facial features, there continued to exist evidence of African genetic heritage.
Because of the dominance of African Black genetic heritage, genetically recessive white-skinned people of Europe continued to FEAR the possibility of white genetic ANNIHILATION caused by the "Semites." Europeans, whites, never have forgotten the Semite capacity for genetic dominance of the Aryan white population. Although after much intermixing many Jews lost much of their skin color, they have continued to be identified as colored people from Africa by the whites!
Thus, there was a 2,000 year history of white hostility towards "Semites," or "coloreds," of the Jewish religion on the continent of Europe.
The FURY of the white supremacy dynamic was expressed in the form of "Nazism." Hitler's and the Nazi movement's, central theme, was white racial genetic purity, the elimination of all persons CLASSIFIED as "Non-whites," "Semites and Gypsies" viewed as having Black genetic heritage from Africa, were considered genetically dominant to the Aryan whites.
The majority of the world's people, Non-white, were manipulated into subordinate positions because, in terms of our thought and logic processes and premises, we were UNPREPARED to understand "Patterns of Behavior," predicated upon, a sense of color deficiency and numerical inadequacy.
Once the victims of oppression accurately and completely decode, the system and its "OBJECTIVE" of oppression, and once we fully analyze the SYMBOLS and patterns of logic, thought, speech, action, emotional response and perception, consciously or unconsciously determined, that constitute the system, the oppressed will be able to RE-ORGANIZE our own behavior effectively.
The process of DE-CODING, a power system, and its culture, is a necessary first step to achieve behavioral MASTERY over that system/culture.
Without this process of decoding, the oppressed FAIL to fully understand what we are dealing with; and have minimal levels of consciousness.
Analysis of conscious and UNCONSCIOUS patterns of logic, thought, speech, action, emotional response and perception, dreams, symbols and intuition - is required.
Armed with such insight, knowledge and understanding, Non-whites, CEASE to be vulnerable to, the behavioral maneuvering of individual or collective whites.
This allows Non-whites to gain, psychological liberation from, the white ideological domination that negatively affects the total functioning of Non-whites.
If they are sincere in their attempts to stop the practices of white supremacy, racism, whites also may be able to find methods to do so, once the cause is understood.
GAMES participated in by a given people, reflect their history, folklore, traditions and conflicts.
All "BALL GAMES" in the white supremacy system/culture play out, at an UNCONSCIOUS level, dominant political, power, CONCERNS. Behind the SYMBOLISM of the "BALL GAMES" IS THE VERY SURVIVAL OF the white race.
The fundamental power concern in the white supremacy system/culture is, white genetic SURVIVAL, through white supremacy domination.
Such domination can be established and maintained only if white MALES and FEMALES, the total white collective, CONTROL all of the "BALLS," testicles of Non-white men.
Since these facts of genetic REALITY, can not be denied nor DISCUSSED at the CONSCIOUS level, this dominant theme is manifested daily at the SYMBOLIC level by GAMES with "symbolic BALLS": footBALLS, baseBALLS, soccer BALLS, hand BALLS, golf BALLS, ping pong BALLS, hockey pucks.
These SYMBOLIC BALL GAMES, are highly important, at the UNCONSCIOUS level, informing all white males especially - but also females - to keep their attention, and their eyes, constantly fixed on the BALLS, as a "matter of life and death."
The anxiety and tension that accompanies ball games is parallel to the anxiety and tension experienced at the thought, in the white psyche, of white genetic ANNIHILATION.
Some of these highly SYMBOLIC "BALL GAMES" are played with WHITE BALLS, and others are played with "COLORED BALLS," usually black or brown. The white balls are small in size, the colored balls are much larger in size, paralleling the genetic power in the white and colored testicles. The most popular games, those that attract most male attention, are played with big brown balls, footballs and basketballs.
If the BALLS can be controlled on the court or the playing field or through ownership of the team, they can be owned and controlled in real life. When whites lose CONTROL of the BALLS, whiteness becomes extinct.
Ball games = war of the balls = war of the testicles = war of the genes = race war.
The RHETORIC coming from our Black Collective is consistent with SUBMISSION TO and/or COOPERATION WITH, the racist oppressive dynamic.
The Black Male arrives at this position as the result of, the imposed power and cruelty of the white male, and the totality of the white supremacy social and political apparatus that has forced 20 generations of Black Males into submission. This pattern of imposed submission is reinforced through every institution within the white supremacy system, but especially in the fundamental social institution of the family, the Black Survival-Unit.
Under white supremacy, Blacks and other Non-whites, are not to develop to their full potential; they are permitted to SURVIVE as functional inferiors, alienated from self and from their own kind.
To deny Black Males jobs and genuine upward mobility, is to deny them the functional roles of husband and father. To deny Black Family units of functional husbands and fathers on a mass level, is to deny male children models for adult male functioning. Deprivation of male models for male functioning means permanent Black male social dis-functioning.
With Black Adult Males unable to function as men, there will not be a major threat of white genetic ANNIHILATION, and white genetic SURVIVAL is assured.
This behavior of submission to and cooperation with white supremacy is consistent with the ILLUSION that there can be a complete INTEGRATION of Non-whites into the white supremacy system.
We are engaging in behavior designed specifically to BLOCK OUT any awareness of the WAR - our true reality. There is no war in history that has gone away with a wish or a prayer. Wars must be fought with the willpower, knowledge, courage and determination of people.
Submission to, and cooperation with victimization and oppression are signs of individual or group MENTAL ILLNESS, or Self-Negation.
The ability to analyze ourselves, our behavior, our reality - critically, is one of the signs of true mental health. ALL Black People everywhere, must begin to understand, the exact and specific nature of the WAR being waged against the Black Collective.
We must give a "DISCIPLINED" group response to the specific WAR being waged against us.
Resistance to and DESTRUCTION OF white supremacy as an absolute form of injustice, requires high levels of GROUP-SELF-RESPECT, and can be sustained only when there is, the willingness to GIVE ONE'S LIFE for the achievement of Justice.
The almost certain consequence of a pattern of consciously determined resistance to and destruction of white supremacy is DEATH at the hands of white supremacy advocates - those who see and understand white supremacy as necessary to white SURVIVAL.
The "FEAR OF DEATH" at the hands of the white supremacy collective, because it cannot be ADMITTED ALOUD by the adult Black population - has been REPRESSED.
All black adults, will have to learn, how to admit openly and honestly, their FEAR OF DYING, in the process of actively trying to destroy the injustice of global white supremacy.
We need not have any conferences other than to announce the existence of our FEAR of white supremacy and to share with one another all possible solutions for overcoming these FEARS.
Black Males, must collectively face, the presence of white males and conquer, the "FEAR of Death" engendered by this act. Black MAN-HOOD, must be viewed as something, so "PRECIOUS" that, Black Men, are willing to "DIE" in defense of it.
The FEAR of such a confrontation is at the basis of today's Black male Passivity, Effeminization, homosexuality, bisexuality - by products of males submitting in FEAR to other males in the social arena; they fail to resist because DEATH is the result of resistance. "Give up trying to BE, a "Black MAN". Why not be a woman?"
To escape this horrendous FEAR of DEATH, sex - having been granted as the one area wherein Black males can "express" MAN-HOOD - is the area of behavior where CIRCULAR Patterns of ESCAPE, are acted out. Symbolically speaking, attempts are made to hide in, the dark Black VAGINAL ORIFICE. When that closes down, the white vaginal orifice is tried. When that also proves unsatisfactory as a hiding place or passage to freedom, Black and white male ANUSES are tried.
After, the white man is faced, he must be resisted steadfastly and fought, if he continues to wage WAR on Black people - as he has demonstrated historically, he intends to do; it is Black males, not females, who must do the fighting.
Black Women can determine whether future generations of Black Children will be WARRIORS or if we will continue to be slaves living in a highly refined state of psychological oppression, which is no less a "DEATH" than direct physical destruction.
Black Women can change, the tide of Black Destiny, by only giving their most "intimate pleasures" to the providers who also prove themselves as WARRIORS against all enemies of the Black Collective.
Black Women must teach their daughters how they assist in the destruction of Black Men and Black People by allowing Black Men to hide out in the vagina.
The answer to the Black male/Black female relationship dilemma is for the Black male and the Black female to make serious, conscious struggle against white supremacy their number one priority. People grow closer together as long as they remain focused outwardly in the same direction. The black male/black female relationship is the foundation of the black nation.
WHEN BOTH THE BLACK MALE AND THE BLACK FEMALE TAKE UP THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE against white supremacy, we are endowed with the strongest possible insurance that we will remain UNITED. We are UNITED in a common effort against injustice, and simultaneously we express the strongest RESPECT and LOVE for ourselves as individuals.
In doing this, black men and black women are declaring we have conferred upon ourselves the HIGHEST possible VALUE, essential if there is to be GROUP-SELF-DEFENSE.
It is critical that, we realize OUR PATTERNS of BEHAVIOR "PERMIT" white supremacy to exist. We must evolve our own behavior, in all areas of people activity, that will checkmate this global white necessity and injustice.
The word "crisis" evolves from the Greek word, "krisis," which means DECISION. A period of crisis, is a time for decision.
We must contemplate our "IDENTITY," the self-image that we carry. For ALL that we can IMAGINE DOING, and all that we WILL DO, or FAIL to do is a result of that PICTURE of "SELF." FROM this, "Self-Image and Self-Concept," all patterns of behavior evolve.
Factually speaking, the black Women and black Man are the parents of the entire family of people - black, brown, red, yellow, and white. Black people can, and have produced all of the colors of humanity, including white. White skin is simply the product of recessive genetic mutation to skin albinism. Whites cannot be the parents of humanity because whites can ONLY produce white.
In the Old Testament of the Bible, the Prophet Isaiah says, "Where there is no VISION, the people will perish." VISION means, the ability to understand the present in its totality, and to organize BEHAVIOR in the present, to meet successfully, the challenge of circumstance, present and future.
Black people must commit ourselves to combating inferiorization through the struggle for maximal development, we must, begin to establish standards and codes of behavioral conduct. Standards and Codes serve as the fundamental basis for developing black Self/Group-Respect. Without true "Self/Group-Respect," all efforts for achievement will be in vain.
All black children, before the age of six (6), should be taught, the following fundamental "Exercises In black Self/Group-Respect:
1. Stop name-calling one another.
2. Stop cursing at one another.
3. Stop squabbling with one another.
4. Stop gossiping about one another.
5. Stop snitching on one another.
6. Stop being dis-courteous and dis-respectful towards one another.
7. Stop robbing one another.
8. Stop stealing from one another.
9. Stop fighting one another.
10.Stop killing one another.
11.Stop using and selling drugs to one another.
12.Stop throwing trash and dirt on the streets and in places where black people live, work and learn.
A Psycho-Genetic Theory and World Outlook By Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing Psychiatrist
From Her Book THE ISIS PAPERS - THE KEYS TO THE COLORS
***UNIFIED FIELD THEORY Of PSYCHIATRY***
This new theory of psychiatry is: a "Unified Field Theory Of Psychiatry.” Western social and behavioral science, particularly psychiatry, has been content with, behavior fragment analyst. Heretofore, no Western behavioral scientist had recognized, the single connecting thread of logic permeating seemingly unrelated phenomena.
It is a psychiatry that PERCEIVES a definable whole, global system of behavior-energy, wherein all major and minor, patterns of behavior within the field can be understood, and predicted, because the ultimate objective of the system remains constant. Underlying interrelationships between seemingly unconnected patterns of behavior are visible.
There is a kind of religion in science; the religion of one who believes, there is ORDER and HARMONY in the universe, and every event can be explained in a rational way as, the product of some previous event; every effect must have its cause.
The body of knowledge known as science takes the position that, all observable phenomena can be explained.
Theories and definitions function as efficient and effective tools to be utilized as guides for changing social reality.
It is possible to understand, in depth, the patterns and system of behavior encountered in the individual and in the broad collective.
Behavior is not an individual affair, for when multiplied by thousands, it has profound effects on the live's, future existence and well being of the total people.
Behavioral scientists serve humanity, when we adequately analyze the fundamental causation and logic of these "patterns of behavior."
The concept of, a unified field theory, is derived from the work of the great mathematical physicist Albert Einstein, who searched for a theory that in mathematical terms - by a single set of equations - would combine all of the different manifestations of energy phenomena in the universe. In Einstein's own words:
***UNIFIED FIELD THEORY Of PSYCHIATRY Cont.***
...to resolve the duality of natural laws into unity...lies in the fact that...two sets of laws - those which control gravitation and those which control the phenomena of electricity and magnetism...must be based upon one general law.
...The relativity theory reduced to one formula all laws which govern space, time, and gravitation. My work is to reduce to one formula the explanation of the field of gravity and the field of electromagnetism.
...The force which moves electrons in their ellipse about the nuclei of atoms is the same force which moves our earth in its annual course about the sun, and is the same force which brings us the rays of light and heat...
"Determinacy" concludes that, in any finite energy system - no matter how seemingly complex at the surface level - a unitary law can be discerned, simply because, there is specific order in the universe, and thus order in any given energy system. A unitary law reveals the nature of that specific order.
Confusion is a result of, failure to see, the interconnections that exist between many seemingly isolated, disconnected behavior-energy phenomena.
To unveil, the total unified form, structured by interconnections and their fundamental cause, may be said in the reverse order: failure, to perceive, the total outline of a dynamic, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to make sense of isolated behavioral patterns, within the total behavioral system framework.
Once the outline of context has been established, the order in which the small pieces are to be placed immediately becomes clear.
A total behavior-energy system can be seen and understood as a "unified field" of energy phenomena.
Once that unified field of behavior-energy is perceived and described, setting forth its fundamental cause and dynamic, the once seemingly isolated, little understood, often unexamined, individual phenomena of behavior-energy within the field, are seen in brilliant coherence, whereas before, they were neither visualized nor understood adequately. The underlying interrelationships between seemingly unconnected patterns of behavior are visible.
The global white supremacy system, racism, is a highly specific system of behavior-energy. The force and energy of this system, through its ultimate goal objective, determines the dominant patterns of behavior in the world today.
The global white supremacy system/culture constitutes a finite, "UNIFIED BEHAVIOR-ENERGY FIELD." The single, unitary Law of white GENETIC SURVIVAL "governs" its origin and its continuance.
Knowledge of the unitary, causative law that GOVERNS this FIELD, enables the PREDICTION of future behavior energy patterns within it.
Most of the major behavior-energy entities, myths and symbols included, in the white supremacy system/culture are related to the single underlying law governing the origin and continued existence of Western civilization.
All major and minor, behavior-energy of the global white collective, conforms to the basic behavior-energy "EQUATION" of "white over Non-white, or white power, over Non-white powerlessness. This is the necessary power, or energy "EQUATION" for white genetic SURVIVAL.
***PSYCHO-GENETIC Theory & World Outlook***
Black people need a law to guide us in, the evolved energy system of the white supremacy behavior organization, in order to facilitate our movement in that system.
The color-line, racism, has controlled events in the 20th century, and prior centuries. The "solution" to the problem of the color-line, will regulate events in the 21st century and beyond.
A basis for, the "solution" to the problem of the color line, rest in an adequate analysis of, the nature of the color line - the exact nature of local and global racism.
There is never consistent motion towards problem "solution" because to do so, would CHALLENGE and alter, the power dynamic of oppression. Thus, high-lever FEAR is set in motion.
During the past 400 years, that Black Men in the U.S. have been forced into PASSIVE and COOPERATIVE SUBMISSION to white men, the major strategy has been the installation of an overwhelming "FEAR."
An extremely high level of "FEAR" and a profound sense of vulnerability of existence leads to, in-effectual patterns of "CIRCULAR-THOUGHT." Problems perceived are avoided and NEVER solved.
"CIRCULAR-THOUGHT" means moving, from problem perception, AWAY from "problem solution," down a diversionary path, and back again to problem perception.
Black people, particularly in the U.S., succumb to "CIRCULAR-THOUGHT." There is not only, a failure to approach problem solution, but there is a, STUBBORN REFUSAL even to LOOK directly at THE PROBLEM.
Black people in the U.S. reject, conscious RECOGNITION of, the global white supremacy system, its absolute necessity of Non-white oppression.
Every energy and psychological effort is expended, individually and collectively, to "BLOCK OUT" and avoid focusing on the true problem of white/Black confrontation - white supremacy.
Amongst black people, there is, the near, total COLLAPSE and LOSS - individually and collectively - of the ability to effectively perceive, analyze and propose solutions to, the problem of white supremacy and its implications for continuing black powerlessness and social disintegration.
Black people are without a perception or analysis of racism, or of a scientific counter-to-racism. Black people, therefore, do not know WHAT to do with themselves.
We are witnessing a collective black floundering and an IDEOLOGICAL VACUUM and dis-orientation.
Effective patterns of, direct "LINEAR-THOUGHT," moves continuously forward in straight line progress, from problem perception, and depth analysis, to proposed conclusive modes of problem solution. This holds for individuals as well as collectives.
A perspective that examines, the patterns of relationships, between whites and "Non-whites" worldwide must be developed.
All major patterns of people behavior, within an evolved system of behavior, can be decoded and understood once the ULTIMATE GOAL OBJECTIVE of the evolved system of behavior is decoded and understood.
Every "social system," including its reflected culture, has a PRIORITY OBJECTIVE, articulated clearly, or disguised hypocritically.
A "social system" is a, "behavioral-system" consisting of specifically designed "patterns of behavior," logic, thought, speech, action and emotional response, structured consciously and unconsciously, which are used as social tools to achieve the PRIORITY-OBJECTIVE of a people.
These "behavior-patterns" are carried forth in all areas of people activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war.
White supremacy is the single PRIORITY-OBJECTIVE of the world's dominant "social system."
Racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a, "UNIVERSALLY OPERATING SYSTEM" of white supremacy and domination, in which the majority of the world's white people participate.
ALL white peoples have the spoken or unspoken MANDATE to participate actively in their collective struggle for global white genetic SURVIVAL.
Racism (white supremacy) is defined as:
The local and global power system, structured and maintained by person's who classify themselves as white, consciously or unconsciously.
This system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war).
The ultimate purpose of this system is, to prevent white genetic annihilation on Earth - a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as, Non-white (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people. All Non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetically recessive white-skinned people.
Racism is WAR AGAINST Black people, against the Black family, against Black Men, against Black Women, and "against" Black children.
The concept of a "system" of white DOMINATION over the world's "Non-white" peoples explains the predicament and dilemma of "Non-white" social reality.
The word "race" is translated correctly as "organization," the sole purpose of which is, to maintain white DOMINATION and WORLD CONTROL.
There is only one functioning racism in the known world - white supremacy. The only valid operational definition of racism, is white supremacy.
Together, the system and culture of white supremacy produce, the phenomenon of racism.
The goal of the white supremacy system is, none other than, the establishment, maintenance, expansion and refinement of WORLD DOMINATION, by members of a group, that classifies itself as, the white "race."
At least three-quarter of the people of the world are "Non-white," and the members of this "Non-white" majority population are subjected to domination throughout their lives, either directly or indirectly, by a tiny minority of the world's people who classify themselves as "white."
What possible motivational force, operative at, the individual and group levels, can account for the evolution of, these "patterns of social behavioral practice," that function in all areas of human activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war)?
White supremacy domination and oppression of all Non-white people is essential for global white genetic SURVIVAL.
If white-skinned peoples had not evolved a global system in which they established power over the world's Non-white majority, the white collective would run the risk of white GENETIC ANNIHILATION.
The entire Western civilization dynamic is, fundamentally linked to, the fear of white genetic annihilation, and the need (experienced by the global white collective) for the continuous battle against the genetically dominant global majority.
"One drop of black blood, black genetic material, makes one black!"
The term "Western" means "white." "Western" has become a comfortable euphemism or code for the word "white." The terms "Western civilization" and "Western culture" specifically refer to the civilization and culture evolved, determined, directed, developed and controlled by people who classify themselves as "white."
NON-white peoples collectively constitute, the global NUMERICAL MAJORITY. This skin-pigmented GLOBAL MAJORITY is, GENETICALLY DOMINANT to the genetically recessive whites, and GENETICALLY they can ANNIHILATE the whites.
White people represent, in NUMERICAL TERMS, a very SMALL MINORITY of the world's people. "White" itself is the very absence of any ability to produce color. The quality of whiteness is, a genetic INADEQUACY or genetic deficiency, based upon the genetic inability to produce the skin pigments of melanin, responsible for all skin color.
Color is normal for human beings and color absence is abnormal. Color absence acts always as a genetic recessive to, the dominant genetic factor of color-production. Color always "annihilates" the Non-color, white.
The white or color-deficient Europeans respond psychologically, with a profound sense of NUMERICAL INADEQUACY and color inferiority, in confrontations with the MAJORITY of the world's people - possessed of varying degrees of color-producing capacity.
This psychological response of INADEQUACY, conscious or unconscious, based on external appearance, makes whites defensively develop an uncontrollable sense of hostility and aggression, directed towards all peoples with the capacity to produce melanin. With the most profound aggressions directed towards Black people, who have the greatest color potential and are the most envied and feared in genetic color competition.
***REACTION FORMATION***
The experience of NUMERICAL INADEQUACY and genetic color inferiority causes whites to implement a psychological defense mechanism, called "reaction formation." A response that converts, at the psychological level, something desired and envied but wholly unattainable, into something discredited and despised.
Whites, desiring to have skin color, but unable to attain it, claimed, consciously or unconsciously, that skin color was DISGUSTING to them, and began attributing negative qualities to color - especially to blackness. The white psyche could not confront the sense of white body shame CONSCIOUSLY.
The fact of color-envy must remain REPRESSED, color-desire can never be mentioned, or the entire white psychological structure collapses. While whites are saying they are superior, they UNCONSCIOUSLY feel inferior to the melanin pigmented global majority.
An additional psychological defense maneuver, utilized by whites has been that of PROJECTION. Feeling extreme hostility and hate towards Non-whites, whites began the pattern of stating that, Non-whites hated them.
Whites experience, psychological discomfort in situations where, in confronting their neighbors of color, they face their color INADEQUACY daily.
The situation of mass proximity to Blacks is intolerable to whites because Blacks are inherently more than equal. People of color always will have something highly visible that whites never can have or produce - the genetic factor of color. Always, in the presence of color, whites will feel genetically inferior.
The mass INABILITY of whites to LIVE and attend school in the presence of Non-whites is expressed in the patterns of Black and white housing and education throughout this country and the world.
White personality, in the presence of color, can be stabilized only by keeping Blacks and other Non-whites in inferior positions.
In a social system designed to achieve white domination, the experience of that system molds white children so that they may function in the role of the oppressors, or the "FUNCTIONAL SUPERIORS" - because that is what white supremacy is supposed to mean: that whites WILL function in a superior way as compared to Non-whites.
The same social system simultaneously will mold all children Non-white to play the role of the "FUNCTIONAL INFERIOR," or oppressed. This is why a white racist social system is completely incapable of providing total equality of opportunity to Blacks. Such a system must, for its maintenance, produce differential levels of functioning for whites and Non-whites.
INFERIORIZATION is the conscious, deliberate and systematic PROCESS utilized by a racist (white supremacy) social system, conducted through all of its major and minor institutions to mold specific peoples within that system into FUNCTIONAL INFERIORS.
The difficulty whites have in according Non-whites socio-political and economic equality, within the white supremacy structure, stems neither from a moral issue, nor from political or economic need, but from the fundamental sense of their own unequal condition - in regards to their numerical INADEQUACY and color deficiency.
Whites compensate for their color INADEQUACY, by placing themselves in socially superior positions. The color INADEQUACY of whiteness necessitates a social structure based on white superiority. Only tokenism can be tolerated by such a motivational psychological state.
The myth of white superiority is exploded in the presence of equitable social and economic opportunity.
The thrust towards superiority over peoples of color, the drive towards material accumulation, the drive towards a technological culture and the drive towards power, are all cornerstones of, the universal white supremacy culture, and they are responses to the core psychological sense of INADEQUACY. An INADEQUACY rooted in the in-ability to produce melanin. This genetic state is, in actuality, a variant of albinism.
White skin is a form of albinism. There is no difference, microscopically, between the white skin of a white person and the skin of a person designated as an albino.
The first albino mutations (whites) were produced from Blacks in Africa. These albinos, were chased north by the Blacks or wandered north away from the intense Sun so that they could survive.
Albinism, causes the skin to turn white and was considered a serious disease in ancient Africa. The victims of albinism were cast out from the skin-pigmented peoples. The marriage of albinos with one another produced what is now know as the white race.
The original rejection by, the Black mothers and Black fathers in Africa of the albino, white, mutant offspring, were forced to try to love themselves if they were to survive; but they could not arrive at a point of true self-acceptance and self-esteem because there was never parental and group acceptance or validation at the time whites mutated from the Black parents.
The failure, if not refusal, to perceive, the repressed conceptualization of the white self as, the albino offspring from Black progenitors, is an inability to place the "white self" in the total perspective of the "hue-man" family and the totality of the Universe, without admission of the genetic defective status of skin whiteness. The white collective, therefore, must deny the meaning and reality of Africa as its own birth place and the point of origin of its own civilization.
Because whites failed to be accepted by the original Black parents, they evolved the "compensatory" pattern of white supremacy.
From the very first experiences of the mutant albino population, with the recognition that the condition of skin albinism (whiteness) could be ANNIHILATED genetically, by those with black and brown skins - genetic dominance over a genetic recessive such as albinism - there has been white fear of Black genetic POWER, or white male fear and envy of the Black, penis, phallus and entire genital apparatus.
The "testicles" are those aspects of the male anatomy that contain the dominant genetic material, the penis is the vehicle that transports the genetic material, which initiates the production of life and skin color.
The total white group's conscious or unconscious, awareness of their genetic weakness and potential ANNIHILATION became even more pronounced - as a cultural theme - as European whites began circum-navigating the globe in the 15th century; and discovered that they were a TINY MINORITY on a planet wherein all others had colored skins.
Black males, lynched by, white males, had their genitals attacked, removed and taken away by white males - carried with them on their person. The concern/fear is with the power of the genetic material in the black testicles; thus black genitalia, must be attacked and destroyed. But also there is envy and a desire for possession of same.
White men, desire, the black penis, more than their own, why else cut off, the black genitals and take them home.
There is "penis envy" in the white supremacy culture, but it began with, the white male's envy of, the genetic power residing in the Black male's testicles and phallus.
The sense of his genetic weakness or inferiority compared to Black males - because Black is always genetically dominant to white - caused the white male to attempt to PROJECT "inferiority" on white females as well.
The white male's insistence that, he is superior to, the white female, and his forcing this psychological dynamic in white family life, has caused the white female, to wish that, she could share his power and his status and symbolically, to have a penis of her own.
It is, white males, who have the "primary penis envy," manifested in their envy of Black males' penises. They then "PROJECT" their sense of inferiority onto, white females, causing them, to develop "secondary penis envy."
As the mothers, wives and sisters of white males, white females, consciously or unconsciously, have always understood, white males' envy of Black males.
The above genetic dynamics are, NEVER DISCUSSED, directly and OVERTLY within, the white supremacy system/culture. The discussion does continue, COVERTLY, and at the UNCONSCIOUS level, and permeates the logic sequences within the culture.
Within the framework of a given system and culture, certain perceptions may exist, that never are acknowledge overtly and certain ideas, thoughts, concepts and theories that are uttered rarely, if ever.
These perceptions, words, ideas, concepts and theories that are repressed or channeled into the UNCONSCIOUS level of the mind, becomes an entire world of ideas treated as though they never existed in the form of concrete reality.
Through the world of SYMBOLISM we gain INSIGHT into the world of REALITY that must be mastered.
The data from the environment that is ENCODED, and REPRESSED to the UNCONSCIOUS level, does not disappear. This REPRESSED DATA becomes the substratum from which "SYMBOLS" can be formed.
If the Ego cannot acknowledge, the presence of a particular feeling about something, it tries everything in its power to banish it---relegating it to the UNCONSCIOUS, though failing, to diminish its power.
The Ego may not want to see, some things, consciousness passes on to it. These incidents, or ideas, are then repressed, and disappear from consciousness, into the UN-CONSCIOUS.
Symbols are highly abstracted complex, condensed, coded messages, that impact and reach unconscious and subconscious levels.
Once the symbol is formed, it is capable of acting upon the mind, which receives it as a data message of energy.
Symbols communicate from one person's unconscious mind, to the unconscious mind of another. Such communication transpires at unconscious levels when the conscious mind level of functioning cannot bear to address certain issues.
Symbols, agitate, the unconscious, sending out energy responses in the form of thought, speech, action and emotions.
Symbolism is "the art of thinking in images;" an art now lost to civilized consciousness, but not to unconsciousness; which compensate for the conscious lost.
"Symbolic," implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has a wider unconscious aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained. As the mind explores the symbol, it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.
These complex symbols are usually related to, the deepest cultural themes of a people, and have significant messages to convey about, the people's and culture's, "reason for being."
Symbolism in, a power system/culture conveys powerful and subtle messages about, how and why the culture came into being, and what the people must do to survive and maintain itself.
Symbolism is, the glue, that holds, the individual and collective psyche of a people and its culture together.
White genetic survival, through the possession and control of the Black male's genital apparatus, is carried forth UN-CONSCIOUSLY in the precepts and practices of the global white supremacy system's primary religion - Christianity. It is in, religious activity that, the highest level of "SYMBOLIC discussion" emerges.
The essence of the story of Jesus, (who only later was referred to as "Christ") was that he was a poor Black man, a carpenter, a member of the Non-white, oppressed population, whose ideas as expressed in the Beatitudes, threatened the power, control and authority of the conquering Romans.
If Jesus and the other Blacks, got out of control, the Roman white SKIN, the whites, could be ANNIHILATED genetically.
Then as now, under white supremacy domination, Jesus, the Non-white, was turned over to the white oppressors, who then USED some of his fellow-victimized, self-hating, Non-whites who wished to ingratiate themselves to the white oppressors - to kill him.
Jesus, this Black man, was then hung on a cross, a peculiar invention of the Roman (white) psyche. The Roman white psyche UNCONSCIOUSLY fearing ANNIHILATION, by the Black male genitals UNCONSCIOUSLY invented an instrument or weapon of Black male destruction, exactly, in ABSTRACT FORM, analogous to the part of the Black male's anatomy that whites knew could destroy them. A highly abstracted line drawing of the male genitalia, is a "CROSS."
Worshiping a suffering, dying Jesus on the cross, is fully comprehended, when it is understood that, Jesus was a Black Man, and, the "black wooden cross" represents, "the Black male genitalia separated from the man."
By controlling the Black, Non-white male genitals, which the "cross" symbolizes, whites have conquered Black and the entire Non-white world majority.
Jesus, a Black Man, shed his Black GENETIC material in a crucifixion - which in reality was, a castration and a killing - so that the genetic white SKIN, RECESSIVE population, in fear of is genetic white SKIN ANNIHILATION, could be saved - genetically SURVIVE.
As long as, the genetic (SKIN) material from, the Black male, is spilling on the ground from castration, whites can remain "white as snow."
Only by the removal and destruction of the Black male genitals can whites have "everlasting life" in the most fundamental GENETIC sense.
Jesus, had to be rationalized as willing to make this, "castration-sacrifice" - giving up his genes (that produce SKIN COLOR) so that whites might live.
Jesus died on the cross and suffered so that "we" WHITES can be "saved" - SURVIVE. Jesus "shedding his blood" Black GENETIC MATERIAL or GENES, so that "we-whites" can "live" and have "everlasting life."
Oh precious is the flow,
That makes me WHITE as snow
No other font I know
Nothing but the BLOOD of Jesus.
The "core dynamic" of white genetic survival, eventually leads whites to, "a major act of genocide" - destruction of genes of Non-white people - or toward "genocidal imperatives." The fundamental meaning of the word "genocide" is "killing genes."
In the collective white psyche, Black males represent the greatest threat to white genetic survival, because only males can impose sexual intercourse, and Black males have the greatest genetic potential, of all Non-whites, to cause white genetic ANNIHILATION.
Thus, Black males MUST be attacked and DESTROYED in a power system designed to assure white genetic survival. In the white supremacy mind-set, consciously or unconsciously, Black males MUST BE DESTROYED in significant numbers.
Failing to comprehend the white supremacy system and its ultimate goal of white genetic survival, Black People also fail to grasp, the deeper sense of what actually is occurring in front of our eyes. We do not realize that the massive deaths of Black Males constitute the GENOCIDE of Black PEOPLE, as it takes Black Males to make Black BABIES and ensure future Black Generations.
Such a genocide occurred in Nazi Germany (1933-1945), wherein the "Semite" and gypsy populations were CLASSIFIED as "Non-whites" and therefore destroyed.
The word "Semite" is from the Latin prefix, "semi" meaning "half" - half Black and half white, and that means mulatto, Non-white. Semites of the Jewish religion, are persons from Africa, who were half black and half white.
SEMITES were the products of the genetic mixture produced when white Greek and Roman soldiers invaded Africa and raped African women, who were Black. SEMITE means the same as MULATTO.
Jews who left Africa, and went to Europe, were "colored" people when they arrived there hundreds of years ago. Semites who left Africa and eventually attempted to settle in Europe, miscegenated further with white-skinned people in the continent of Europe and continued to lose much of their MELANIN skin-pigmentation. However, because of the dominant character of the African Black genotype, including hair texture and facial features, there continued to exist evidence of African genetic heritage.
Because of the dominance of African Black genetic heritage, genetically recessive white-skinned people of Europe continued to FEAR the possibility of white genetic ANNIHILATION caused by the "Semites." Europeans, whites, never have forgotten the Semite capacity for genetic dominance of the Aryan white population. Although after much intermixing many Jews lost much of their skin color, they have continued to be identified as colored people from Africa by the whites!
Thus, there was a 2,000 year history of white hostility towards "Semites," or "coloreds," of the Jewish religion on the continent of Europe.
The FURY of the white supremacy dynamic was expressed in the form of "Nazism." Hitler's and the Nazi movement's, central theme, was white racial genetic purity, the elimination of all persons CLASSIFIED as "Non-whites," "Semites and Gypsies" viewed as having Black genetic heritage from Africa, were considered genetically dominant to the Aryan whites.
The majority of the world's people, Non-white, were manipulated into subordinate positions because, in terms of our thought and logic processes and premises, we were UNPREPARED to understand "Patterns of Behavior," predicated upon, a sense of color deficiency and numerical inadequacy.
Once the victims of oppression accurately and completely decode, the system and its "OBJECTIVE" of oppression, and once we fully analyze the SYMBOLS and patterns of logic, thought, speech, action, emotional response and perception, consciously or unconsciously determined, that constitute the system, the oppressed will be able to RE-ORGANIZE our own behavior effectively.
The process of DE-CODING, a power system, and its culture, is a necessary first step to achieve behavioral MASTERY over that system/culture.
Without this process of decoding, the oppressed FAIL to fully understand what we are dealing with; and have minimal levels of consciousness.
Analysis of conscious and UNCONSCIOUS patterns of logic, thought, speech, action, emotional response and perception, dreams, symbols and intuition - is required.
Armed with such insight, knowledge and understanding, Non-whites, CEASE to be vulnerable to, the behavioral maneuvering of individual or collective whites.
This allows Non-whites to gain, psychological liberation from, the white ideological domination that negatively affects the total functioning of Non-whites.
If they are sincere in their attempts to stop the practices of white supremacy, racism, whites also may be able to find methods to do so, once the cause is understood.
GAMES participated in by a given people, reflect their history, folklore, traditions and conflicts.
All "BALL GAMES" in the white supremacy system/culture play out, at an UNCONSCIOUS level, dominant political, power, CONCERNS. Behind the SYMBOLISM of the "BALL GAMES" IS THE VERY SURVIVAL OF the white race.
The fundamental power concern in the white supremacy system/culture is, white genetic SURVIVAL, through white supremacy domination.
Such domination can be established and maintained only if white MALES and FEMALES, the total white collective, CONTROL all of the "BALLS," testicles of Non-white men.
Since these facts of genetic REALITY, can not be denied nor DISCUSSED at the CONSCIOUS level, this dominant theme is manifested daily at the SYMBOLIC level by GAMES with "symbolic BALLS": footBALLS, baseBALLS, soccer BALLS, hand BALLS, golf BALLS, ping pong BALLS, hockey pucks.
These SYMBOLIC BALL GAMES, are highly important, at the UNCONSCIOUS level, informing all white males especially - but also females - to keep their attention, and their eyes, constantly fixed on the BALLS, as a "matter of life and death."
The anxiety and tension that accompanies ball games is parallel to the anxiety and tension experienced at the thought, in the white psyche, of white genetic ANNIHILATION.
Some of these highly SYMBOLIC "BALL GAMES" are played with WHITE BALLS, and others are played with "COLORED BALLS," usually black or brown. The white balls are small in size, the colored balls are much larger in size, paralleling the genetic power in the white and colored testicles. The most popular games, those that attract most male attention, are played with big brown balls, footballs and basketballs.
If the BALLS can be controlled on the court or the playing field or through ownership of the team, they can be owned and controlled in real life. When whites lose CONTROL of the BALLS, whiteness becomes extinct.
Ball games = war of the balls = war of the testicles = war of the genes = race war.
The RHETORIC coming from our Black Collective is consistent with SUBMISSION TO and/or COOPERATION WITH, the racist oppressive dynamic.
The Black Male arrives at this position as the result of, the imposed power and cruelty of the white male, and the totality of the white supremacy social and political apparatus that has forced 20 generations of Black Males into submission. This pattern of imposed submission is reinforced through every institution within the white supremacy system, but especially in the fundamental social institution of the family, the Black Survival-Unit.
Under white supremacy, Blacks and other Non-whites, are not to develop to their full potential; they are permitted to SURVIVE as functional inferiors, alienated from self and from their own kind.
To deny Black Males jobs and genuine upward mobility, is to deny them the functional roles of husband and father. To deny Black Family units of functional husbands and fathers on a mass level, is to deny male children models for adult male functioning. Deprivation of male models for male functioning means permanent Black male social dis-functioning.
With Black Adult Males unable to function as men, there will not be a major threat of white genetic ANNIHILATION, and white genetic SURVIVAL is assured.
This behavior of submission to and cooperation with white supremacy is consistent with the ILLUSION that there can be a complete INTEGRATION of Non-whites into the white supremacy system.
We are engaging in behavior designed specifically to BLOCK OUT any awareness of the WAR - our true reality. There is no war in history that has gone away with a wish or a prayer. Wars must be fought with the willpower, knowledge, courage and determination of people.
Submission to, and cooperation with victimization and oppression are signs of individual or group MENTAL ILLNESS, or Self-Negation.
The ability to analyze ourselves, our behavior, our reality - critically, is one of the signs of true mental health. ALL Black People everywhere, must begin to understand, the exact and specific nature of the WAR being waged against the Black Collective.
We must give a "DISCIPLINED" group response to the specific WAR being waged against us.
Resistance to and DESTRUCTION OF white supremacy as an absolute form of injustice, requires high levels of GROUP-SELF-RESPECT, and can be sustained only when there is, the willingness to GIVE ONE'S LIFE for the achievement of Justice.
The almost certain consequence of a pattern of consciously determined resistance to and destruction of white supremacy is DEATH at the hands of white supremacy advocates - those who see and understand white supremacy as necessary to white SURVIVAL.
The "FEAR OF DEATH" at the hands of the white supremacy collective, because it cannot be ADMITTED ALOUD by the adult Black population - has been REPRESSED.
All black adults, will have to learn, how to admit openly and honestly, their FEAR OF DYING, in the process of actively trying to destroy the injustice of global white supremacy.
We need not have any conferences other than to announce the existence of our FEAR of white supremacy and to share with one another all possible solutions for overcoming these FEARS.
Black Males, must collectively face, the presence of white males and conquer, the "FEAR of Death" engendered by this act. Black MAN-HOOD, must be viewed as something, so "PRECIOUS" that, Black Men, are willing to "DIE" in defense of it.
The FEAR of such a confrontation is at the basis of today's Black male Passivity, Effeminization, homosexuality, bisexuality - by products of males submitting in FEAR to other males in the social arena; they fail to resist because DEATH is the result of resistance. "Give up trying to BE, a "Black MAN". Why not be a woman?"
To escape this horrendous FEAR of DEATH, sex - having been granted as the one area wherein Black males can "express" MAN-HOOD - is the area of behavior where CIRCULAR Patterns of ESCAPE, are acted out. Symbolically speaking, attempts are made to hide in, the dark Black VAGINAL ORIFICE. When that closes down, the white vaginal orifice is tried. When that also proves unsatisfactory as a hiding place or passage to freedom, Black and white male ANUSES are tried.
After, the white man is faced, he must be resisted steadfastly and fought, if he continues to wage WAR on Black people - as he has demonstrated historically, he intends to do; it is Black males, not females, who must do the fighting.
Black Women can determine whether future generations of Black Children will be WARRIORS or if we will continue to be slaves living in a highly refined state of psychological oppression, which is no less a "DEATH" than direct physical destruction.
Black Women can change, the tide of Black Destiny, by only giving their most "intimate pleasures" to the providers who also prove themselves as WARRIORS against all enemies of the Black Collective.
Black Women must teach their daughters how they assist in the destruction of Black Men and Black People by allowing Black Men to hide out in the vagina.
The answer to the Black male/Black female relationship dilemma is for the Black male and the Black female to make serious, conscious struggle against white supremacy their number one priority. People grow closer together as long as they remain focused outwardly in the same direction. The black male/black female relationship is the foundation of the black nation.
WHEN BOTH THE BLACK MALE AND THE BLACK FEMALE TAKE UP THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE against white supremacy, we are endowed with the strongest possible insurance that we will remain UNITED. We are UNITED in a common effort against injustice, and simultaneously we express the strongest RESPECT and LOVE for ourselves as individuals.
In doing this, black men and black women are declaring we have conferred upon ourselves the HIGHEST possible VALUE, essential if there is to be GROUP-SELF-DEFENSE.
It is critical that, we realize OUR PATTERNS of BEHAVIOR "PERMIT" white supremacy to exist. We must evolve our own behavior, in all areas of people activity, that will checkmate this global white necessity and injustice.
The word "crisis" evolves from the Greek word, "krisis," which means DECISION. A period of crisis, is a time for decision.
We must contemplate our "IDENTITY," the self-image that we carry. For ALL that we can IMAGINE DOING, and all that we WILL DO, or FAIL to do is a result of that PICTURE of "SELF." FROM this, "Self-Image and Self-Concept," all patterns of behavior evolve.
Factually speaking, the black Women and black Man are the parents of the entire family of people - black, brown, red, yellow, and white. Black people can, and have produced all of the colors of humanity, including white. White skin is simply the product of recessive genetic mutation to skin albinism. Whites cannot be the parents of humanity because whites can ONLY produce white.
In the Old Testament of the Bible, the Prophet Isaiah says, "Where there is no VISION, the people will perish." VISION means, the ability to understand the present in its totality, and to organize BEHAVIOR in the present, to meet successfully, the challenge of circumstance, present and future.
Black people must commit ourselves to combating inferiorization through the struggle for maximal development, we must, begin to establish standards and codes of behavioral conduct. Standards and Codes serve as the fundamental basis for developing black Self/Group-Respect. Without true "Self/Group-Respect," all efforts for achievement will be in vain.
All black children, before the age of six (6), should be taught, the following fundamental "Exercises In black Self/Group-Respect:
1. Stop name-calling one another.
2. Stop cursing at one another.
3. Stop squabbling with one another.
4. Stop gossiping about one another.
5. Stop snitching on one another.
6. Stop being dis-courteous and dis-respectful towards one another.
7. Stop robbing one another.
8. Stop stealing from one another.
9. Stop fighting one another.
10.Stop killing one another.
11.Stop using and selling drugs to one another.
12.Stop throwing trash and dirt on the streets and in places where black people live, work and learn.
Monday, December 2, 2013
The Fear of No Return
When I read Sharon’s blog on 12 Years a Slave, it brought forth a rush of emotion that forced me to consider where I stand as a Black man today… in 2013…. When America is supposed to be a more enlightened and just society. My thoughts led me to a place where I can easily comprehend the path we have traveled; one that perpetually puts me in my “place” as a “boy” instead of a “man” – as “chained” rather than “free.”
Given those parameters, I have a special take on the movie (a depiction of the past) that (in current reality) could easily be ME. Solomon Northup, a “free man” became enslaved and endured soul wrenching experiences that left him traumatized.
It strikes me to my soul that the very same experience could easily happen to me – TODAY.
As with Northup, I could be innocently walking down the street, be picked up and cast into a system where my name is taken, I am held in chains, shipped far from home, forced to work, and never know when I might again be free. This could happen (and often does).
I hope you will recognize by now that I’m speaking of the American criminal “just-us” system – one which relentlessly inflicts the onus of involuntary servitude – meted out to many Black men (especially) who may be “pronounced guilty” — based upon a conviction that bears little (if any) proof.
Just as Black men (and some women) were kidnapped and sold into slavery during Solomon Northrup’s time, Black people continue to experience a frighteningly similar fate, under a process that is euphemistically “colored” with the rule of law.
Modern day law enforcement protocol has its roots in the slave catchers and bounty hunters of the past who would swoop into town and grab any Black man moving. If you could not prove you were a free man, you were doomed. How did one prove they were free? As we saw in the film, Solomon Northup was stripped of his clothing and personal belongings. How in the world could he, when demanded, produce “papers” to prove his status? Even if he did, I can easily see the jailer tearing them to shreds.
Today, police can stop any and every one and inquire about their status. Mostly, they demand “Do you have any wants or warrants.” (Yes, I KNOW the procedure and the de rigueur stance of submission.) They will then run your name through “the system.” If something pops up on their screen, you WILL be taken into custody. And that easily becomes an unbelievable journey into hell. It has happened to me and far too many other Black people – EVERY DAY.
Having a driver’s license or state ID, a social security card or even a passport means nothing in a police stop. There are no “papers” immediately at hand to certify that you are not wanted. It is in the hands of the slave catcher/police to determine if you are “clean” (read “free”).
I am Solomon Northup every day of my life. Every time I walk out my door, there is the possibility of not coming home. Just the simple act of going to see this incredibly real movie summons my fear of no return.
(Originally published: http://ourblackancestry.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/the-fear-of-no-return/)
Friday, March 26, 2010
Conversation with Bern Nadette Stanis, "Thelma of Good Times"
Harold Lee Rush interviews Bern Nadette Stanis, Thelma of "Good Times"
Click photo to visit Bern Nadette's website
Friday, April 4, 2008
Conversation with T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
WKKC Radio 'Legend' Harold Lee Rush interviews
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah (http://www.tkeyah.com/)
(click here to download mp3 of interview)
Sunday, September 30, 2007
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor
March 1965
The United States is approaching a new crisis in race relations. In the decade that began with the school desegregation decision of the Supreme Court, and ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the demand of Negro Americans for full recognition of their civil rights was finally met. The effort, no matter how savage and brutal, of some State and local governments to thwart the exercise of those rights is doomed. The nation will not put up with it — least of all the Negroes. The present moment will pass. In the meantime, a new period is beginning. In this new period the expectations of the Negro Americans will go beyond civil rights. Being Americans, they will now expect that in the near future equal opportunities for them as a group will produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups. This is not going to happen. Nor will it happen for generations to come unless a new and special effort is made. There are two reasons. First, the racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us: Negroes will encounter serious personal prejudice for at least another generation. Second, three centuries of sometimes unimaginable mistreatment have taken their toll on the Negro people. The harsh fact is that as a group, at the present time, in terms of ability to win out in the competitions of American life, they are not equal to most of those groups with which they will be competing. Individually, Negro Americans reach the highest peaks of achievement. But collectively, in the spectrum of American ethnic and religious and regional groups, where some get plenty and some get none, where some send eighty percent of their children to college and others pull them out of school at the 8th grade, Negroes are among the weakest. The most difficult fact for white Americans to understand is that in these terms the circumstances of the Negro American community in recent years has probably been getting worse, not better.
Indices of dollars of income, standards of living, and years of education deceive. The gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening. The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive — is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle class group has managed to save itself, but for vast numbers of the unskilled, poorly educated city working class the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated. There are indications that the situation may have been arrested in the past few years, but the general post war trend is unmistakable. So long as this situation persists, the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself. The thesis of this paper is that these events, in combination, confront the nation with a new kind of problem. Measures that have worked in the past, or would work for most groups in the present, will not work here. A national effort is required that will give a unity of purpose to the many activities of the Federal government in this area, directed to a new kind of national goal: the establishment of a stable Negro family structure. This would be a new departure for Federal policy. And a difficult one. But it almost certainly offers the only possibility of resolving in our time what is, after all, the nation's oldest, and most intransigent, and now its most dangerous social problem. What Myrdal said in An American Dilemma remains true: "America is free to chose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity."
Chapter I. The Negro American Revolution
The Negro American revolution is rightly regarded as the most important domestic event of the postwar period in the United States. Nothing like it has occurred since the upheavals of the 1930's which led to the organization of the great industrial trade unions, and which in turn profoundly altered both the economy and the political scene. There have been few other events in our history - the American Revolution itself, the surge of Jacksonian Democracy in the 1830's, the Abolitionist movement, and the Populist movement of the late 19th Century - comparable to the current Negro movement. There has been none more important. The Negro American revolution holds forth the prospect that the American Republic, which at birth was flawed by the institution of Negro slavery, and which throughout its history has been marred by the unequal treatment of Negro citizens, will at last redeem the full promise of the Declaration of Independence. Although the Negro leadership has conducted itself with the strictest propriety, acting always and only as American citizens asserting their rights within the framework of the American political system, it is no less clear that the movement has profound international implications.
It was in no way a matter of chance that the nonviolent tactics and philosophy of the movement, as it began in the South, were consciously adapted from the techniques by which the Congress Party undertook to free the Indian nation from British colonial rule. It was not a matter of chance that the Negro movement caught fire in America at just that moment when the nations of Africa were gaining their freedom. Nor is it merely incidental that the world should have fastened its attention on events in the United States at a time when the possibility that the nations of the world will divide along color lines seems suddenly not only possible, but even imminent. (Such racist views have made progress within the Negro American community itself - which can hardly be expected to be immune to a virus that is endemic in the white community. The Black Muslim doctrines, based on total alienation from the white world, exert a powerful influence. On the far left, the attraction of Chinese Communism can no longer be ignored.) It is clear that what happens in America is being taken as a sign of what can, or must, happen in the world at large. The course of world events will be profoundly affected by the success or failure of the Negro American revolution in seeking the peaceful assimilation of the races in the United States. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin Luther King was as much an expression of the hope for the future, as it was recognition for past achievement. It is no less clear that carrying this revolution forward to a successful conclusion is a first priority confronting the Great Society.
The rest can be downloaded here: http://whgbetc.com/black-family-u-s-dept-labor-1965.pdf
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
School discipline harder on blacks
School discipline harder on blacks
Analysis of federal data shows racial inequality in suspensions and expulsions nationwide; locally, the gap is widest in Lake and DuPage
By Howard Witt Tribune senior correspondent September 25, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas
In the average New Jersey public school, African-American students are almost 60 times as likely as white students to be expelled for serious disciplinary infractions.
In Minnesota, black students are suspended six times as often as whites.
In Iowa, blacks make up just 5 percent of the statewide public school enrollment but account for 22 percent of the students who get suspended.
Fifty years after federal troops escorted nine black students through the doors of an all-white high school in Little Rock, Ark., in a landmark school integration struggle, America's public schools remain as unequal as they have ever been when measured in terms of disciplinary sanctions such as suspensions and expulsions, according to little-noticed data collected by the U.S. Department of Education for the 2004-2005 school year.
In every state but Idaho, a Tribune analysis of the data shows, black students are being suspended in numbers greater than would be expected from their proportion of the student population.
In 21 states -- Illinois among them -- that disproportionality is so pronounced that the percentage of black suspensions is more than double their percentage of the student body. And on average across the nation, black students are suspended and expelled at nearly three times the rate of white students.
No other ethnic group is disciplined at such a high rate, the federal data show. Hispanic students are suspended and expelled in almost direct proportion to their populations, while white and Asian students are disciplined far less. Yet black students are no more likely to misbehave than other students from the same social and economic environments, research has found.Some impoverished black children grow up in troubled neighborhoods and come from broken families, leaving them less equipped to conform to behavioral expectations in school. While such socioeconomic factors contribute to the disproportionate discipline rates, researchers say that poverty alone cannot explain the disparities. "There simply isn't any support for the notion that, given the same set of circumstances, African-American kids act out to a greater degree than other kids," said Russell Skiba, a professor of educational psychology at Indiana University whose research focuses on race and discipline issues in public schools.
"In fact, the data indicate that African-American students are punished more severely for the same offense, so clearly something else is going on. We can call it structural inequity or we can call it institutional racism."
Academic researchers have been quietly collecting evidence of such race-based disciplinary disparities for more than 25 years. Yet the phenomenon remains largely obscured from public view by the popular emphasis on "zero tolerance" crackdowns, which are supposed to deliver equally harsh punishments based on a student's infraction, not skin color. That's not what the data say is happening. Yet the federal Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which is charged with investigating allegations of discriminatory discipline policies in the nation's public schools, has opened just one such probe in the past three years. Officials declined requests to explain why.
There's more at stake than just a few bad marks in a student's school record. Studies show that a history of school suspensions or expulsions is a strong predictor of future trouble with the law -- and the first step on what civil rights leaders have described as a "school-to-prison pipeline" for black youths, who represent 16 percent of U.S. adolescents but 38 percent of those incarcerated in youth prisons. Relatively few school districts scattered across the country -- about 6 percent -- have begun to acknowledge the issue of racial disparities in discipline and tried to do something about it.
In Austin, after administrators discovered that black youths accounted for 14 percent of the school district's population but 37 percent of the students sent to punitive alternative schools, they introduced a program in some schools based on encouraging positive student behaviors rather than punishing negative ones.
At one school, Pickle Elementary, which serves mostly Hispanic and black pupils, the results were dramatic -- disciplinary referrals dropped to 20 last year from 520 in 2001-2002. "I am not going to give up on a child and suspend him or send him to an alternative school," said Julie Pryor, who was the school's principal when the behavioral program was implemented and is now a district administrator. "Washing our hands of a child will never change his behavior, it just makes it worse. These are children. It's up to us to be creative to find ways to help them behave."
But academic experts say many more school administrators, when confronted with data showing disparate rates of discipline for minority students, react like officials in the small east Texas town of Paris and strenuously deny accusations of racial discrimination. Paris is the sole school district in the nation currently under investigation by the Department of Education to determine whether higher discipline rates for black students there constitute institutionalized discrimination. The probe has been under way for more than a year. "The school district has been a leader and very progressive when it comes to race relations," Dennis Eichelbaum, attorney for the Paris Independent School District, said in an interview earlier this year.
That perspective is not shared by the families of many of Paris' black students, who make up 40 percent of the school district's nearly 4,000 students. "They say there's no racism here, but if you go inside a school and look in the room where they send the kids for detention, almost all the faces are black," said Brenda Cherry, a Paris civil rights activist who assembled some of the complaints that sparked the federal investigation. "Unless black people are just a bad race of people, something is wrong here."
Exactly why black students across the nation are suspended and expelled more frequently than children of other races is a question that continues to perplex sociologists. "Studies of school suspension have consistently documented disproportionality by socioeconomic status. Students who receive free school lunch are at increased risk for school suspension," according to "The Color of Discipline," a 2000 study by Skiba and other researchers in Indiana and Nebraska. Another study concluded that "students whose fathers did not have a full-time job were significantly more likely to be suspended than students whose fathers were employed full time."
But those studies and others have repeatedly found that racial factors are even more important. "Poor home environment does carry over into the school environment," said Skiba, who is widely regarded as the nation's foremost authority on school discipline and race. "But middle-class and upper-class black students are also being disciplined more often than their white peers. Skin color in itself is a part of this function."
Some experts point to cultural miscommunications between black students and white teachers, who fill 83 percent of the nation's teaching ranks. In fact, the Tribune analysis found, some of the highest rates of racially disproportionate discipline are found in states with the lowest minority populations, where the disconnect between white teachers and black students is potentially the greatest. "White teachers feel more threatened by boys of color," said Isela Gutierrez, a juvenile justice expert at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, a watchdog and policy group. "They are viewed as disruptive. What might be their more assertive way of asking a question, for example, is viewed as popping off at the mouth."
Nor has the decline of court-ordered integration across the nation and the gradual resegregation of urban schools in recent decades made much difference in disciplinary rates. Even in urban schools where most of the students are black, black youths are still disciplined out of proportion to their population, the data show. In Washington, D.C., for example, black students are 84 percent of the public school population but 97 percent of the students who are suspended.
Other researchers believe that zero-tolerance policies, which encourage teachers and administrators to crack down on even minor, non-violent misbehavior, are exacerbating racial disparities. Some states, such as Texas, are so zealous that they have criminalized many school infractions, saddling tens of thousands of students with misdemeanor criminal records for offenses such as swearing or disrupting class. The school security climate, in turn, can reinforce race-based expectations about which students are most likely to require discipline.
"Most suburban schools, where the students are more likely to be white, purchase security equipment that is meant to protect children -- for example, hand scanners that make sure that the parent/guardian picking up the child is legitimate," said Ronnie Casella, an expert on the criminalization of student behavior at Central Connecticut State University. "In contrast, urban schools choose equipment such as metal detectors and surveillance cameras that are meant to catch youths committing crimes."
The new behavioral program being tried in Austin and some 6,500 schools nationwide, including some in Chicago area, seeks to turn zero tolerance on its head in a bid to slash the number of suspensions, expulsions and other punishments meted out by teachers. Called "Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports," the intensive regimen requires a commitment from an entire school, including training of students in the behaviors that are expected of them and re-education of teachers and administrators in the use of positive motivational techniques. The interactions of individual teachers with their students are scrutinized by a team of experts to pinpoint communication breakdowns, and specialized counseling teams are deployed to work with students who present the most serious discipline issues so that classroom teachers are not left to deal with the problems on their own. "Most schools use a get-tough, punish-the-kids kind of perspective, which results in the kinds of racial disciplinary disparities we see across the country," said George Sugai, a professor of education at the University of Connecticut who helped create the positive behavioral program. "We come at it from the other perspective: If you teach kids the behaviors that are expected, you have a greater likelihood of success. It's really more about changing how adults interact with kids than it is about changing the kids." Schools such as Pickle Elementary in Austin that are using the positive behavioral program often report sharp reductions in disciplinary referrals. But Skiba, who is studying the effectiveness of the program, cautions that it doesn't always eliminate racial disparities.
"They've been very successful at reducing rates of suspension and expulsion while making schools function more effectively," Skiba said of the schools using the program. "But if you look at the data by race, what you find is that some discrepancies still exist. It's not enough to put this program in place and say, 'We are happy to reduce our rates of suspension,' because what we might have done is reduce our white suspensions and increase our African-American suspensions.
DuPage 1st in Chicago-area student expulsion disparity
By Stephanie Banchero, Tribune staff reporter Tribune staff reporter Darnell Little contributed to this report September 25, 2007
In Chicago-area public schools, African-American students are five times as likely to be suspended and nearly eight times as likely to be expelled as white students, according to a Tribune analysis of state data. The expulsion disparity was greatest in DuPage County, where blacks were expelled at a rate nine times as high as whites. African-Americans represent 6 percent of the public school population in DuPage yet accounted for 32 percent of all the students expelled in the last school year, the data show.
Lake County schools in the north suburbs had the largest suspension gap. Black students, who make up 10 percent of the school enrollment, are six times as likely as whites to receive a suspension.African-American students in Illinois have long been overrepresented in school discipline statistics.
The issue came to national prominence in 1999 when six black students were expelled from a Decatur high school after a fight. Their expulsion touched off a firestorm and brought Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders to the Downstate town. The following year, the number of expulsions dropped statewide. But it has crept back up.
"These numbers are a wake-up call for those of us who went to sleep after the Decatur incident," said Mark Allen, who worked for Jackson and helped open the Rainbow/PUSH Decatur chapter. "When we were agitating and protesting, things got better. Now that we stopped monitoring, things went right back to the old way. It's a travesty."
Several area school districts, including Chicago, Oak Park and Carpentersville, have grappled with racial disparity in discipline in recent years. In 2005, African-Americans in Oak Park and River Forest High School demanded an audit into the disparate suspensions and expulsions of black students. District officials eventually crafted new policies, including plans to train teachers in non-confrontational discipline methods.
www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-discipline_wittsep25,0,3079611.story
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