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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80

Noted Scholar Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80 ~  Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, a respected Psychologist and author of the book, “The Isis Papers,” has died at the age of 80.  Reports say that she died from complications arising from a stroke.

Dr Welsing lived an extraordinary life.  Born in 1935 in the city of Chicago, she went on to become a seminal thinker in the African American struggle for racial equality.   As a teacher and mother, her writings went on to inspire an entire generation of black leaders, leaving a legacy that will survive long after her death.

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Dr Welsing’s father and grandfather were medical doctors and her mother was a teacher, so her educational background was quite extensive.  She is herself a graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine.   She published her famous paper, the “Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation” as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Howard University Medical School.

Although Dr Welsing’s work was impactful outside of academia, Howard University did not renew her tenure at the university, largely due the controversial nature of her research.   This is when Dr Welsing spent 20 years as a staff physician with the Department of Human Services in Washington, DC.

Dr Welsing’s work was also controversial due to her position on homosexuality, which she says was imposed on black men to keep them from reproducing.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dies at 80

Bio | Courtesy of Wikipedia

Frances Cress Welsing (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 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]

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. at Howard 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 albinomutants. She also states that because of this “defective” mutation, they may have been forcibly expelled from Africa, among other possibilities.[7]

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”:[8]

Functional Definition Of Racism = White Supremacy = Apartheid: As a black behavioral scientist and practicing psychiatrist, my own functional definition of racism (white supremacy) is as follows: “Racism (white supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structure, 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 and overwhelming majority of people are classified as non-white (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people, and all of the non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white-skinned people.”[9]

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 homosexualityand sexism are necessarily derived from this behavior-energy system.[10]

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.[11]

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:[12]

No matter how much you may shrink the size of your nose, no matter how many doctors, lawyers, judges, professors, scholars you may produce, no matter how many Einsteins, Freuds, Marxes, or Rubensteins you produce, no matter how much money, diamonds, and gold you may obtain, if you are classified as “non-white” under the conditions of white supremacy domination, when the hammer of white supremacy falls, you will be under that hammer.[13]

Objects and racial analogies

According to Welsing, various cultural practices express white people’s sense of their own inferiority:

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 recessiveness.[14]

Welsing further contends that White male sexism is rooted in envy, “because Black is always genetically dominant to White”:[15]

…I have said all of the above to state that, yes, there is envy in the white supremacy culture, but it began with the white male’s envy of the genetic power residing in the Black male’s testicles and phallus. Perhaps there was also envy of the comparatively longer length of the Black phallus. The sense of his relative genetic weakness and inferiority compared to Black males (because Black is always genetically dominant to white) caused the white male to attempt to project “inferiority” on white females as well.[16]

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.[17]She died a few hours later on the morning of January 2, 2016 at the age of 80.[17][18]

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