Frances Cress Welsing

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Frances Cress Welsing

Born 1935
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation writer, and psychiatrist
Website
http://www.franciscresswelsing.com

Frances Cress Welsing (born March 18, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African American psychiatrist practicing in Washington, D.C.. She is famous for her "Cress Theory of Color Confrontation", which explores the practice of White Supremacy. She is the author of The Isis Papers; The Keys to the Colors (1991). [1][2]

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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. [1]This system attacks people of color, particularly people of African descent, in the nine major areas of people's activity which are:[2]

  1. economics
  2. education
  3. entertainment
  4. labor
  5. law
  6. politics
  7. religion
  8. sex
  9. war

Cress Welsing 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 in order to dismantle it and bring true justice to planet Earth.[1]

[edit] Criticism

Welsing has been criticized for allegedly 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[3]

She has been criticized for claims such as that black male homosexuality is consciously imposed on the Black man by the white man for the purpose of destroying the Black family, that black homosexuality is a sign of weakness and that homosexual patterns of behavior are simply expressions of black male self-submission to other males in the area of sex, as well as in other areas such as economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, and war.[4]

[edit] Rare film appearance

Welsing made a rare screen appearance 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.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c "Cress Theory of Color". "Frances Cress Welsing".
  2. ^ a b "About Cress Welsing". "Africa Within".
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Afrocentricity vs Homosexuality: The Isis Papers

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