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Praise Song for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: Our Race Champion! Praise Song for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: Our Race Champion! by Mama Marimba Ani, Ph.D. Editor’s note: The author is an anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her book titled Yurugu: An Afrikan-centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (1994), a comprehensive critique of European thought and culture. She coined the term Maafa for the African holocaust (capture, enslavement, mos- education), and has taught as a Professor of African Studies in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City. This presentation was composed February 9, 2016. All quotes herein are from The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991) by Frances Cress Welsing. Abstract This presentation provides review the work and significance of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, and thus, it begins with an outline on how in 1974 Dr. Welsing confronted white supremacist, physicist, and eugenicist William Shockley on the PBS sponsored Tony Brown’s Journal talk show wherein she countered his arguments by showing them to be inept, before coolly demolishing his assertions as she explained why his delusional behavior was necessary and manifestations of Shockley’s fear of white genetic annihilation. Accordingly, the author argues that Welsing: broke the rules of academic ambivalence, detachment and intentional fuzzy-headedness; held theories and arguments issued from the dire needs of a people under siege; understood that the healing of Black people (a captive and exploited people) lies in an ability to acknowledge fear of a system that has been constructed to imprison Black people, and in acknowledging that fear is a way to dismantle white supremacy; had a brilliance of leadership and vision in the development of intellectual weaponry that enhanced by her ability to move beyond the self-serving restrictions of the academy; held that white fear of genetic annihilation is the cause of racism and white supremacist behavior; provided the only explanation for the perpetration of genocide by the white population against African people; focused on the need for the development of collective self-confidence and self-respect as a prerequisite for overcoming Black fear; and that Welsing’s passing separates the race-warriors from the race-traitors; the sovereignists-vindicationists from the integrationist-assimilationists. Hence, the author outlines the tenets and configured weapons presented by Welsing that can be used to attack what had been perceived as the impenetrable fortress of racism/white supremacy; say we must listen to the voice of Welsing much more carefully now so not to miss the continued ideological and organizational impact of white supremacy on human political thought and behavior; and suggest that The Center for Disease Control helps to spread disease among Black people and promotes unnecessary and harmful vaccinations. And in conclusion, the author she argues that: the attack on Black people by confused Black folk and their Yurugu teachers seek to anger Black folks, but Welsing taught Black folks how to fight, and therefore, strict attention need to be paid to the modeled behavior of Welsing as she consistently focused on exposing the only form of racism (white supremacy), and on expunging Black fear; and everything Welsing did and said was a preparation for confrontation with those who seeks to destroy people of African descent. 67 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.6, August 2017 In 1974, I experienced Dr. Frances Cress Welsing for the first time as she confronted William Shockley, the white supremacist, physicist, eugenicist, on Tony Brown’s Journal, a talk show on PBS. Watching Dr. Welsing shock Shockley as he, no doubt, had never been shocked before, was to have a lasting effect on me and many others, including Shockley himself. As I subsequently studied her and her work, ”The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation,” I came to realize that, “Confrontation” was, indeed, her forte, her strength, and her method of healing Afrikan people in preparation for War against those who would destroy us. Dr. Welsing turned Shockley’s world upside down. She challenged his perception of himself. She took the ground from beneath him, robbing him of the confidence he had taken for granted. As a white person he functioned in a system that had been constructed to convince him of his “superiority” and the inferiority of Afrikan/Black people. But Dr. Welsing snatched the rug out from under him by questioning the very things that he assumed. She sat facing him, brilliantly countering his arguments, showing them to be inept. She calmly considered his words, before coolly demolishing his assertions. He had banked on the defensive posture which most of us took when told that our Intelligence Quotient was lower than that of white people. We sought so desperately to prove that we were “as smart as they.” We didn’t understand that we were thereby accepting the reality that they had imposed to prove the opposite. By defending ourselves within the context of their definition of reality, we had accepted it as true. We were allowing them to define the terms, putting them “in charge”. (We had not learned the most important axiom of cultural warfare; ever let your enemy choose the game or make the rules. He will determine the rules to guarantee that he wins, even if you are the more skilled.) The idea of the quantitative measurement of human intelligence should be obviously absurd, its cogency a figment of the white imagination. Rather than “defend” against a bogus claim, Dr. Welsing explained why his delusional behavior was necessary. She confronted his propositions head-on and dismantled them. She “flipped the script” and made him the object. His genetic inadequacy became the focus. His rather disjointed and feeble “arguments” were simply manifestations of his fear of genetic annihilation. Even more than all this, for us as Afrikans, it is her posture that calls us to her and inspires us to be unapologetically and forcefully, Afrikan. From that day, as she continued to disarm white supremacists by exposing their illness and their source of power, her confidence became our confidence, her resolve our resolve. She was brilliant for us, and so we are “brilliant”. She was courageous, and so we gain the courage to take on the enemy. She did not run from the enemies of our people. She calls them out! Bolekaja! “Come on down, let’s fight.” I was trained as a Pan-Afrikanist by Nana John Henrik Clarke. I later developed as an Afrikan Nationalist in the tradition of The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I am now striving to be the best Afrikan Sovereignist-Race Vindicatonist that I can be, as taught by Dr. Anderson Thompson, Dr. Bobby Wright and Baba Djedi Shemsu (Dr. Jacob Carruthers). The combination of these Race- Champions has influenced my style of combat, and my commitment to teach Afrikan students to be unrelenting as warriors for their people. 68 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.6, August 2017 Dr. Welsing’s example adds to this composite of trainers. She stood on the solid ground of Race Pride, much as Marcus Garvey had done. She broke the rules of academic ambivalence, detachment and intentional fuzzy-headedness. Her theories and arguments issued from the dire needs of a people under siege – her people. She knew that we couldn’t afford to spend another 400 years in captivity, not another decade. But without an understanding of those who have colonized and enslaved us, that would be our fate- for in the minds of the enemy, their survival depends on our demise. Our healing as a captive and exploited people lies in our ability to acknowledge our fear of the system that has been constructed to imprison us. Acknowledging that fear is the operating principle. Acknowledgement of the fear will take away its power. She knew that confronting our fear would enable us to confront the system itself. Through confrontation we become confident and therefore powerful. Dr. Welsing went “toe to toe” with white supremacy. That was what she did. She was consistent, unrelenting and unyielding. Her work was the healing of her people, Black People. She spent her entire adult life committed to that work. She, like Nana Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Nana John Henrik Clarke, is a warrior-healer who has helped to heal our trammeled and battered psyche. She understood, as did Bobby Wright and Baba Amos Wilson, that in a white supremacist world order, all human experience is Racial. Everything is political. All reality has racial significance. It is all about Power. These ideas are threatening to non-Afrikans and to their allies and apologists. But hers was the total warrior posture. To be comfortable in the maafa is cultural, racial and political insanity. Everything she did was in opposition to racism/white supremacy. And she brought home, in clear sharp terms, the significance of Black Power. Dr. Welsing, along with others named here, was among the few who could carry the epithet of Leader of the Race. To truly lead us, one has to be courageous enough to speak always in the interest of Afrika even when it is unpopular and dangerous to do so. She has to have Vision. So Dayi. “The Clear Word.” II The brilliance of Dr. Welsing’s leadership and vision in the development of intellectual weaponry was enhanced by her ability to move beyond the self-serving restrictions of the academy. She, like Nana Clarke, Nana Marcus Garvey, and Bro. Malcolm Omowale X, is not handicapped by the affliction of academeitis. She did not try to impress the white world or confused Afrikans with a feigned “objectivity”.
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