Do YOU Know Who Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Is?
Dr. Welsing is an amazing family therapist in the Washington, DC area who I have had the great fortune to see twice. She is the author of the incredible, “Isis Papers.” While I don’t agree with every word she’s written (and that could be a reflection of my current inability to understand it), Dr. Welsing is an amazing, brilliant, Black Woman. She’s a freedom fighter, a liberator. Why is she seemingly on the margins of OUR culture when what she says — in my humble opinion — is so relevant and REAL?!
Selected Quotes:
“The white personality, in the presence of color, can be stabilized only by keeping Blacks and other non-whites in obviously inferior positions. 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.”
“They can compensate for their color inadequacy only by placing themselves in socially superior positions.”
“If hate and lack of respect are manifested towards others, hate and lack of respect are felt most often at deeper levels towards the self.”
“(The Cress) Color-Confrontation theory postulates that whites desired and still do desire sexual alliances with non-whites, both male and female, because it is only through this route that whites can achieve the illusion of being able to produce color…The extreme rage vented against even the idea of a sexual alliance between the Black male and the white female, which has long been a dominant theme in the white supremacy culture, is viewed by the Color-Confrontation theory as a result of the white male’s intense fear of the Black male’s capacity to fulfill the greatest longing of the white female — that of conceiving and birthing a product of color.”
“The C-C theory also explains why Black male’s testicles were the body parts that white males attacked in most lynchings: the testicles store powerful color-producing genetic material. Likewise, the repeated and consistent focus on the size of Black males’ penises by both white males and females is viewed by this theory as a displacement of the fundamental concern with the genetic color-producing capacity residing in the testicles. Since the fact of color-envy must remain repressed, color-desire can never be mentioned or the entire white psychological structure collapses.”
Very instressing, but schtoopid! The “color theory” of racial confrontation is all wrong. Cress-Welsing is no freedom fighter, either. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Freedom fighters are not stand alone forces. Nobody can fight for freedom alone, nor without recognizing others who have fought for freedom. The greatest psychiatrist with an anti-colonial theory was Frantz Fanon, hands down. His work forms the classical texts for understanding the psyche inflamed by racist prejudice. Another is E Franklin Frazier. Cress-Welsing is nowhere near their league. You would better reference Na’im Akbar, who is in the tradition of those giants, and no opportunist, at that.
To repeat, the “color theory” is all wrong! Racism is concentrated class oppression. I kno that is a difficult concept to grasp. However, it is scientific and not subjective. Cress-Welsing has a 100% subjective analysis of the racial problem. If the color theory were correct, racial antagonism would be natural but it is political and economic. If it were natural, race traitors would exist in the same context that one rat will thro another to the cat. Ever hear of that happening? NO! Because natural enemies have a response based in brain chemistry. Racism is not based in that. It is based in politics and economics, which makes it a class problem. GET THAT THRU YOUR HEADS, PEOPLE! Peace.
Scientists don’t bring subjectivism to their analysis? How do they manage that? I respect a scientist that admits that they are being subjective; in my mind, it makes them more honest and likely to catch their prejudices because they are aware of them.
Your thesis seems to hinge on the words “subjective” and “natural,” words that the European uses to pretend a disinterested, detached perspective. And that it usually is, detached from reality.
I ain’t buyin’ your take, homes, or your bombing Dr. Welsing. I’ve actually sat across from her for two therapy sessions and she is a brilliant woman. And for realz, no one is denying the class element of oppression, not even her. Welsing simply concentrates on the “mutation” into another, more powerful dynamic…that many don’t want to recognize, including us.
It’s all good, my brother. I’ve been onto Frances Cress-Welsing since like 1981 around the time I heard of “The Color Theory of Racial Confrontation”. But I mean to say her take on it is totally subjective. Not just a little. TOTALLY.
Anyway, just applying the logical outcome of any color theory, from the Curse of Ham on thru the Willie Lynch Speech (which all started with the crackers) to the Legend of Yakub and Cress-Welsing’s pseudotherapeutic hypothesis, Europeans and Africans are not natural enemies. If so, why is Paul Kagame on they side? Or Colin Powell and Clarence Thom-ass and Condoleeza, for that matter? What about John Brown or Ulysses S. Grant or Che Guevara? Cress-Welsing’s a-historical approach just doesn’t fit with the real story, it only sits well with those who believe in a myth.
Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral were two of Africa’s greatest anti-colonial freedom fighters in the Twentieth Century, both married to white women. Explain that. They didn’t fix the problem in Algeria (Fanon) or Guinea-Bissau (Cabral) via psychotherapy. Nope! They done it by revolution! Revolt! Uprising and fighting back. So you can keep going to therapy here in America, but there are those of us who will rise up against Imperialism and eventually destroy it.
…A class analysis is useless unless you can anticipate what will replace it. Can you imagine a system without capitalism? Without Imperialism and banks and corporations? Imagine that! Then you will see the expansive gulf between what Cress-Welsing wants to achieve and what revolutionary thinkers and organizers have set out to do. Until she gets off her high horse and discusses Fanon (also a psychotherapist) plus E Franklin Frazier (“The Black Bourgeoisie”) and Harold Cruse (“Crisis of the Negro Intellectual”) you may never grasp what I’m is about on the class question. Peace.
My view of reading history is that colonizing of the world of color came about at about the same time as capitalistic system. I tend to believe that white supremacy is inextricable from capitalism. Do whites (that is, those most in recent time), for example, from Europe not benefit most from the inequality created for them to exist? I’m sorry, but it’s a done deal. However absurd it is, because people who are “whites” control the major institutions of learning, punishment, and money-handling, white supremacy exists. Why is it inconsistent that we cannot have both, capitalism and white supremacy? Is it because of reason. Should supersede not believe our “lying eyes,” just because it would be best? Best for whom? Which is it easier to see, a bank account or physical characteristics, such as skin, hair texture, the shape of one’s lips and nose? I that it’s more difficult to follow the money. In other words, you might sound smart, more objective, unfortunately (for you, or those who believe, in facts always speak for themselves, based on how evidence functions, you are wrong. I used to believe that it had to be one or the other, class or race. Only now I realize that since most “blacks” have no where near the wealth of their assumed counterparts. In other words, white have both. They are at the top of the “so-called” racial order, and they have control over the institutions which define reality
Are you people insane? The founders of psychiatry are rolling in their graves listening to your ignorant ass analysis of the white man. Tell yourselves whatever it is that you need to. The fact is, you are the blight the disease that infects this planet. Civilization peaked under the white man’s control. Notice it’s decline as minorities become more prevalant? That’s not coincidence, it’s a symptom of your mere presence. You are a stain on everything that is good in this world. Your genetics are a parasite that cannot just be scraped off in order to clean up the human gene pool. Look at yourself and know that you are disgusting in the eyes of every white person that has any sense of dignity and self-worth. Do everyone a favor and hold a mass suicide. Then we can watch documentaries in celebration on the History Channel.
I’m just saying what a lot of people are thinking.