The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
I hope that with this knowledge the world's non-white people (black,
brown, red and yellow) will work more effectively to neutralize this global
and most monstrous form of injustice and chaos. Any person not interested
in a definition, analysis and deeper understanding of worldwide
white supremacy must have an interest (conscious or subconsciou'l) in
maintaining the same.
The subtitle of this work, The Keys to the Colors, came from a statement
made to me by a patient in a Washington, D.C. public mental health clinic
in the late 1960s. The patient was a tall, thin, middle-aged, Black-skinned
man who, in a somewhat confused manner, talked earnestly to me about
the problems he had experienced in his life. He said, "Doctor, if we could
just find the keys to the colors!" And be repeated it slowly. It was a
statement I never have been able to forget. This work is a portion of my
response.
Frances Cress Welsing, M.D.
Washington, D.C.
1989
Introduction
The Isis (YSSIS) Papers: The Keys to the Colors is a collection of
essays I have written over the past 18 years, following the presentation
and publication of my first work, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation
and Racism (White Supremacy). That first paper was a theoretical
statement, a psychogenetic theory and world outlook on the origin and
meaning of the global white supremacy system. The theory summarizes
and clarifies our experience as Black (non-white) people on a planet
presently dominated by people who classify themselves as "white" and
who are a minority of the world's people.
The Cress Theory was based upon the insightful work of Neely Fuller
Jr., author of The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept-
a textbook/workbook for thought, speech and/or action for victims
of racism (white supremacy). Fuller, the founder of the racism/counter·
racism concept, was the very first victim of racism to understand it as a
global system of organized behavior (thought, speech and action) for
white supremacy domination in all areas of people activity (economics,
education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war). In
other words, he recognized that all activity and behavior encompassed by
the white supremacy system had and has its origin in the dynamic of
racism. Additionally, Fuller understood that racism contained the seeds
and origin of counter-racism, the behavior dynamic of liberation for the
non-white victims of white supremacy. His work led me to question the
necessity of the global white collective to evolve such a system of unjust
behavior. The result was The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and
Racism (White Supremacy). (Cress is my maiden name.)
This thesis provided me with a "unified field theory" approach and
understanding, in the Einsteinian sense, to all behavioral phenomena
manifested with high frequency in the local and global system of racism.
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