Frances Cress Welsing
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Frances Cress Welsing (born March 18, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African American psychiatrist practicing in Washington, D.C.. She is famous for the 'Cress Theory of Color Confrontation', a theory that explores the practice of White Supremacy. She is the author of The Isis Papers; The Keys to the Colors (1991).
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[edit] Area of Study
According to Cress Welsing, White Supremacy is practiced by those people who classify themselves as "white" to ensure the genetic survival of "white" people. Her theory is predicated on the work of Neely Fuller (1969), who states that White Supremacy is a global system of domination against people of color. This system attacks people of color, particularly people of African descent, in the nine major areas of people activity which are:
- economics
- education
- entertainment
- labor
- law
- politics
- religion
- sex
- war
As Cress Welsing is a psychiatrist, she states that White Supremacy is practiced by the global "white" minority on both conscious and unconscious levels to ensure their genetic survival by any means necessary. Cress Welsing believes that it is imperative that people of color, especially people of African descent, understand how the system of White Supremacy works to dismantle it to bring "true justice" to planet Earth.
[edit] Criticism
Welsing has been criticized for allegely promoting an overtly racist ideology; in The Isis Papers she postulates that white people are the genetically defective descendants of Albino mutants who had been forcibly expelled from Africa.
Welsing also claims that the prevalence of high blood pressure among African Americans is due to the fact that melanin exchanges "black photons" with other electrons and, therefore, picks up the negative energy vibrations from white people. See Melanin Theory.
She has also been accused of homophobia. In her treatise, she asserts that some black men are so overwhelmed by racism that they opt out by becoming homosexual, transsexual, or otherwise passive.
[edit] Controversial Quotes from The Isis Papers
"White male homosexuality may be viewed as the symbolic attempt to incorporate into the white male body more male substance by either sucking the penis of another male and orally ingesting the semen, or by having male ejaculate deposited in the other end of the alimentary canal. Through anal intercourse, the self-debasing white male may fantasize that he can produce a product of color, albeit that the product of color is fecal matter."
"On both St. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, the white male gives gifts of chocolate candy with nuts. . . . If his sweetheart ingests 'chocolate with nuts,' the white male can fantasize that he is genetically equal to the Black male."
“Is it not also curious that when white males are young and vigorous, they attempt to master the large brown balls, but as they become older and wiser, they psychologically resign themselves to their inability to master the large brown balls? Their focus then shifts masochistically to hitting the tiny white golf balls in disgust and resignation—in full final realization of white genetic recisiveness.”
[edit] Rare Film Appearance
Welsing's rare screen presence was broken when she starred in the multi-award winning documentary 500 Years Later (2005) staring Maulana Karenga , Muhammed Shareef , Hakim Adi , Kimani Nehusi, Paul Robeson Jr , Nelson George, and many more. The film was written by M.K. Asante, Jr.
[edit] References
- Cress Welsing, Frances. (1991) The Isis Papers; The keys to the colors Chicago: Third World Press.
- Fuller, N. (1969). The united independent compensatory code/system/concept Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
- Ortiz de Montellano, B. (2001) Magic Melanin: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy to Minorities.
