The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
who never can seem to find an adequate job and a Black adolescent male
who is a criminal shoplifter and a complete clown. All of this takes place
in the presence of a strong and powerful Black female, who periodically
drops down on her knees to pray to a white Jesus whose miracles save the
situation.
These weekly insults to Black manhood that we have been
programmed to believe are entertainment and not direct racist warfare,
further reinforce, perhaps in the unconscious thinking of Black people, a
loss of respect for Black manhood while carrying that loss to ever deeper
levels. One 12-year-old Black male summed it up in this manner when I
questioned him about working hard and studying in school: "No, I do not
want to study so I can help Black people. If you try to help !3lack people,
you will be killed. Look at Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and George
Jackson. I don't want to die."
This reality of white supremacy oppression must be approached either
linearly (head-on) or with circular patterns of behavior to escape this
horrendous reality of death. Sex, having been granted as the one (though
limited) area wherein Black males could express manhood, became the
area of behavior where circular patterns of escape were acted out. Symbolically
speaking, attempts were made to hide in the dark Black vaginal
orifice. When that closed down, the white vaginal orifice was tried.
When that also proved unsatisfactory as a hiding place or passage to
freedom, Black and white male anuses were tried. Or one might say, these
became the hoped for "undercover" railroads to freedom- the underground
railroads as escape from the white man no longer being operative.
Because Black men are forced into patterns of both conscious and
unconscious logic, ever-increasing incidents of Black male passivity,
effeminization, bisexuality and homosexuality can be understood logically
and accurately predicted. There is only one solution- that Black males
collectively face the horrendous presence of white males and conquer the
accompanying fear engendered by this act. After the white man is faced,
he must be resisted steadfastly and fought if he continues to wage war on
Black people- as he has demonstrated historically that he intends to do.
And it is Black males and not females who must do the fighting.
Black Male Passivity
Black male homosexuality and bisexuali
by-products of males submitting in tl
ty are .only the long-run
they fail to resist because death is :to other males. m the social arena;
number of Black male hom I ~ult of resistance. The large
h
osexua s and btsexuals who re
ad and have little or no respect for their fath . pon that they
ly different life histories had the
e~s mtght have had completefathers
died while in defense f ~~own up With the knowledge that their
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. o e~r manhood when it was ttacked
c a enged by the oppressor Th' . . a and
· IS IS especially tru if th ·
admired and respected the fathers, manhood. Th e eir mothers also
been viewed as something so precious th
~n, ~anhood would have
is a quite different input into the child' :t o.ne dies m defense of it. This
no good trifling laz . s ram-computer than "He was a
Tha th, ., Y.~lgger, and you should never want to be like h. "
t e soctal/poliucal dynami f · · un.
white male's alienation tirom h' co ract~m, uself predicated upon the
1S own geneuc statu h
others to be alienated f: . s, s ou 1 d In · turn cause
rom therr own genetic stat d . .
sexual orientation, should not cause s . us, etermmmg color or
such a dynamic on the alen so that =nse. I~ should put the ~ictims of
counter this destrucu·
. Y efficiently and effectively can
ve assau 1 t against the . .
genetic status.
apprectauon of their own total
. All Black children should be protected b Black .
alienated against any of th . Y people from bemg
err genes - be tho
gender or sickle cell aneml·a R . . se genes of color, sexual
· acists w11l attempt t 0 b ·
genetic alienation, but Black peo le h
nng about such
Black psychiatris· t P s ould be prepared to coumer it.
s must understand tbat h ·
homosexuality for tbemselves b t
w Ites may condone
for destroying Black peopl th• u we as Blacks, must see it as a strategy
. e at must be counte ed H
btsexuals should neither be d r · omosexuals or
. con emned nor degrad d .
decide that they would be
e • as they did not
so programmed in childh
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d .
should be held responsible 0
k .
· The ractst system
and increasing occurre . ur tas IS to treat and prevent its continuing
nee.
One method I have been using with all BI k .
their particular disorder b . . ac male patlents - whether
e passiVIty effem · · · ·
homosexuality or other- is to ha th ' uuzation, biSexuality'
approaching and opposing . v~ em relax and envision themselves
'm actua combat, the collective of white males
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