The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
addresses itself to an existing and specific set of power relationships -
namely, the white male's continuing dominance over the Black male.
It is the confrontation with the stated fact of his social and functional
powerlessness in the total context of the white supremacy system that
causes one Black male to explosively challenge and fight another Black
male when called "mother fucker" with the proper negative vocal intonation.
This is true because Black males are totally uncomfortable with the
reality of their relative powerlessness compared to white males, even
though this awareness of powerlessness is more often unconsciously
repressed than consciously dealt with in the Black male psyche. It is my
estimate that 70% of the Black male on Black male homicides follow the
use of the term "mother fucker" said in the specific tone that implies, at
the unconscious gut level, "You are a powerless baby."
The reality and awareness of Black male powerlessness in the context
of the white supremacy system causes such gut and psychic pain for the
Black male that the brain-computer switches over to the very deep levels
of the unconscious mind, to the realm and region of symbolic word
formation and thinking. Here the brain pieces together, in coded symbolic
language, the phraseology that hides from the conscious mind the continuing
existence and activity of a totally unacceptable reality. Indeed,
there is no single term that is more emotionally charged nor a phrase that
is used more often by Black males in the U.S. than "mother fucker." This
suggests that the most obvious of all realities for Black males is their
powerlessness relative to the power of the white male in the system and
culture of racism.
But, it is not sufficient to have decoded this particular word pattern in
the white supremacy culture. The question indeed arises, why is this
particular word formation and combination used to denote Black powerlessness?
This more fundamental question can be answered. Again,
however, it is necessary to begin with the psyche of those who organized
the white supremacy power system as well as the fundamental reasons
and motivations behind its origin.
The total world white collective has been involved in the establishment
and maintenance of the white supremacy power system. It is, however,
The Mother Pucker and The Original Mother Pucker
the w~ite male who has been involved most specifically in the system's
establishment and maintenance. The system • s major characteristics thus
reflect more of the projections of his psyche than those of his female
counterpart.
I ~tated in the tJ_eginning o~ this book that whites are undoubtedly a
ge~~tic mutant albmo population. They are albino mutants from the
ongmal Black (hue-man) beings, causing the formation of a mankind and
a huemankind. This statement is given strong support by the worlc of the
anthroP_Ologist Louis Leakey who stated in his book By The Evidence
(Memotrs, 1932-1951) that human life began in Africa and that the first
human beings were Black.
~rom the modem ~cience of genetics, we know that it is possible for
all pigmented population groups to produce white (albino) mutants. We
also know that it is impossible for albino mutants to produce Black
offsprings.
As reported in National Geographic and Natural History magazines
(se~ re~erences), recently found in Africa was the first known albino
gonlla mfant who was the offspring of its coal black gorilla mother and
fa~er. ~is ~vi~ence strongly supports the extrapolation that if a higher
pnmate (m thiS mstance, a coal black gorilla pair) can produce a platinum
blond, blue-eyed, pink-skinned (albino) then certainly this could also be
the pattern by which blond, blue-eyed, pink-skinned (white) men and
women also were produced- as genetic mutants or albino mutants from
the B~ck ~orm. That the norm for the entire human family is to possess
melanm-ptgmented skins supports that extrapolation.
The albino mutants that easily could have evolved in Africa either
c~uld have been chased northward by their pigmented parents and
kms_men, or they could have migrated northward on their own, away from
the mtensely sunny environment of Africa where their non-pigmented
defe~tive ~ins would not be damaged by the less intense sun rays:
Movm~ dlfectly northward from Africa, one lands in Europe, the now
recogmzed home of the whites.
The main point of this perhaps seemingly discursive discussion is that
white-skinned (albino) persons were most probably the genetic mutant
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