BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY
Frances Cress Welsing
| BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY |
| Frances Cress Welsing | |
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Welsing receives Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008
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| Born | Frances Luella Cress March 18, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Died | January 2, 2016 (aged 80) Washington, D.C., US |
| Residence | Washington, D.C. |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Alma mater | Antioch College (B.S.), Howard University (M.D.) |
| Known for | Her interpretations of the origins of white supremacy culture, The Isis Papers (1991) |
Frances Cress Welsing (born Frances Luella Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an afrocentrist[1] psychiatrist who with her 1970 essay: the Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), offered her interpretation on the origins of white supremacy culture in Washington, D.C..
She was the author of The Isis Papers (1991) and The Keys to the Colors (1991). In her writing, Welsing discuses that white people are the result of a genetic mutation of albinism and are the outcast offspring of the original peoples of Africa.[2][3] Welsing caused controversy after she said that homosexuality among African-Americans was a ploy by white males to decrease the black population.[4] Contents
Early life
Welsing was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago, Illinois, on March 18, 1935.[5] Her father, Henry N. Cress was a physician, and her mother, Ida Mae Griffen, was a teacher.[5] In 1957, she earned a B.S. degree at Antioch College and in 1962 received a M.D. atHoward University.[5]
In the 1960s, Welsing moved to Washington, D.C. and worked at many hospitals, especially children's hospitals.[5]
Views
Welsing states that a system is practiced by the global white minority, on both conscious and unconscious levels, to ensure their genetic survival by any means necessary.[5]According to Welsing, this system attacks people of color, particularly people of African descent, in the nine major areas of people's activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war.[4] 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.[6]
Melanin theory
In The Isis Papers she states the melanin theory, that white people are the genetically defective descendants of albino mutants. She also states that because of this "defective" mutation, they may have been forcibly expelled from Africa, among other possibilities.[2]
Welsing suggests that, because it is so easy for pure whiteness to be genetically lost during interracial mixing, White-skinned people developed an aggressive colonial urge and their societies dominated others militarily in order to preserve this White-skinned purity. Welsing ascribes certain inherent and behavioral differences between black and white people to a "melanin deficiency" in white people. Welsing proposes what she calls a "functional definition of racism":[2]
Unified field theory
Welsing discusses her "Unified Field Theory Psychiatry" as a broader framework, encompassing biology, psychology, and physics, as prerequisite to understanding the etiology of a unified field of energy phenomena, specifically the "behavior-energy" underlying racial conflict. She states that her position is more analogous to the "determinist" model of physicist Albert Einstein, than to the "indeterminacy" theories of Max Born and Werner Heisenberg. Furthermore, she asserts that both homosexuality and sexism are necessarily derived from this behavior-energy system.[2]
Attribution of symbols
As a psychiatrist, a large part of Welsing's writings also pertain to Freudian theory, and particularly to analysis of the meaning of symbols. She presents an extensive interpretation of broad categories of symbolic objects: guns and weapons, Christ and the Holy Cross, ball games, boxing, smoking objects, paper money and gold.[2]
Other explanations on the origin and functional mechanism of White supremacy are described in her collection of essays concern the meaning and symbolism of rape and of unjustifiable homicide. Her analysis of mass-homicide, or genocide, concludes that the Holocaust and systematic destruction of Jews was caused by white fear of genetic annihilation by "non-Aryan" peoples. Therefore, she believes it to illustrate to all non-white ethnicities that they are in peril of extermination:[2]
Objects and racial analogies
According to Welsing, various cultural practices express white people's sense of their own inferiority:
Welsing further contends that White male sexism is rooted in envy, "because Black is always genetically dominant to White":[2]
Homosexuality
Welsing has been criticized for stating that black male homosexuality was imposed on the black man by the white man in order to reduce the black population,[4] that White 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.[5]
Death
Welsing suffered a stroke on January 1, 2016, and was placed under critical condition at a Washington, D.C.-area hospital.[8] She died a few hours later on the morning of January 2, 2016, at the age of 80.[8][9]
Film appearances
- Welsing appeared in the documentary 500 Years Later (2005), directed by Owen Alik Shahadah and written by M.K. Asante, Jr..[10]
- Welsing also appeared in the documentary Hidden Colors: The Untold History Of People Of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent is a 2011 documentary film by Tariq Nasheed. (2011), directed by Tariq Nasheed.[11]
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