Are you a victim of racism/white supremacy?
In other words, are you a person classified as non-white who lives somewhere other than an uncharted island? Okay then.
Now, if you have or can be classified as non-white, you should know that you have been a victim of racism/white supremacy. “Racism (White Supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war), for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth – a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as nonwhite (black, brown, red and yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people.” Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
R/WS is a comprehensive matrix that heinously impacts non-whites intellectually, emotionally, physically, spiritually. Racism/white supremacy is a disease that impacts both perpetrator, passive beneficiary and victim (whether they are engaged in struggle against the R/WS dynamic or not).
Kameelah raised a point recently which I have attempted to bring up: we need to begin a process of healing our wounds from racism/white supremacy. Every last one of us, but particularly those of us who like to hear ourselves speak – in cyberspace and elsewhere.
We NEED THERAPY!!!!!
I’ve observed in my travels how people, regardless of color, get involved in causes, become activists and leaders – and use their activism as a means to work out their inner pathology. Or better still: they use their work to escape having to deal with their pathology, their dis-ease. These unconscious people are oppressors of the very people they claim to love, because they lash out and abuse those who don’t meet their distorted, elitist view of the race…. and REFUSE to look at the affect of their blind assertions. They wrap themselves in kente cloth and animal hides, while behaving like the Great White Hunter.
I observe people who use other black people as building blocks for their egos, as putty to fill the holes in their paper tissue psyches. I observe people who make sport of “exposing” fellow black people as “assimilationists” or “race traitors,” without offering solutions or assistance. They apparently get off on running down black people who are, in their opinions, confused, irredeemable. Who’s really confused and irredeemable?!
All of us can grow – if only we’d allow ourselves to. All of us can take in new info, adapt, let go of that which doesn’t serve us. But many of us settle into rigid, fixed, stereotyped personnas to shield us from the pain within. We attack, but never reflect, never look within our own meager souls because its too unbearable.
Many of us mistake ‘hardness’ for ’strength,’ mistake ‘callousness’ for ‘telling the truth.’ To be vulnerable is to be strong, elastically strong. To be rigidly strong means becoming a potted plant, stagnant, stuck, thinking in fuzzy cliches – and going nowhere fast. The person who crouches in the sniper tower picking off black people, all the while claiming their authentic, unique, Uber-BLACK love for us – needs help, probably more help than most. That’s okay, just as long as they get it.
I’ve been a part of a community that welcomes people who struggle with addiction, with disease and offers those people support. Love. We might offer tough love every now and then, but we don’t withdraw their membership if they can’t get sober immediately. We make sure our sobriety is intact so that we have something to offer the newcomer. Why can’t black people who claim to be righteously together and tru-black authenticated Negroes offer the same kind of love and hopes for redemption to our people?
We can; but we must place doing our inner work AHEAD of ‘liberating tha people.’ If you aren’t liberating yourself, you may contribute little more than a bad example… and intellectual insights bound up in great confusion.
Dr. Neely Fuller has stated that “if you don’t understand racism/white supremacy, everything else will only confuse you.” I would add that if you don’t really know yourself, know your vulnerablities, know your dependencies and deficiencies - and aren’t motivated to and don’t take action to heal those issues - you will misinterpret everything that you see.
Find a good therapist. Meditate. REALLY listen to what your insides are trying to tell you. And try loving black people by loving black people. Holding people up to ridicule and simply pointing at them and saying how f*%#d they are is not love. Offering suggestions, insights from your own life and support IS.
Share the luv, baby, and get some H-E-L-P!!
I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Francis Cress Welsing speak while I was in high school. Her truth upset the white kids who struggled with their desire to be brown. They argued they just wanted to look healthy, that’s why they sun bathed. Risking cancer to be brown. They had never thought about that.
Free slave
sitting down , i have my starbucks , and now i am ready .
This post is beautiful , I am new to blogs and feel that they are a great way to therapuetically expunge your inner demons , or rattle off instead of doing something you might regret , and also great source of information, actually they are better than the news , !!!!! However you raised a valid point because I found some sick pathological self delusional characters to be running blogs..
No blog is going to save the black race , at this point in time , it might foster awareness about race issues which , will initiate dialogue , but if you want to save the race then one must be proactive and not just talk . So I would suggest any said blog with this agenda to actually have physical events that people could attend , such as fundraisers, because let’s face it , without money not much is going to get accomplished. I mean you can only read but so much .
If one is truly interested to inspire “people ” they would need to physcially experiment with thier rhetoric ,so they are more clear in how to broaden the horizons for us people so they could stimulate thier followers and help set the stage for a new path .
I feel for these people because I wonder
Is life so bad that one has to map out that little space on the internet , and attack people if they do not agree with them . Talk about people’s sexuality that one doesn’t even know a cyber person no less .. Or is it that bad that One needs to write posts that set them up to be thier own imaginary hero through thier commenters comments , when everyday the face they see is that of a clown .
Do people really believe that for the ” movement “if you are not brown you are treated as whites , and if you are brown you are treated worse than whites … That is a white supremist agenda , divide and conquer . Isn’t that what helped perpetuate the tragic mulatto ? Is one saying that the field negro had it worse than the house negro ? Are you saying physical abuse is worse than mental abuse , when both are simply abuse!!
I think at that stage one becomes confused , to much thinking and not enough experimenting , living life !!! All the power is within each of us to do what ever we wish to do , the only thing that holds us back is fear , and living through other people . I agree if you want to love us, you have to try , you can’t seperate us because we do not fit into your mold ! You can’t love us if you have to hate some of our choices without walking in our shoes that we wore when we made these choices !!!!!
I agree share the luv , there is room for everyone of us involved in our struggle .