The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
by Frances Cress Welsing
by Frances Cress Welsing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Isis</strong> <strong>Papers</strong><br />
Ball Games As Symbols<br />
could be liked better, in <strong>the</strong> context of <strong>the</strong> white supremacy culture, as<br />
long as he held any position o<strong>the</strong>r than number one controller of <strong>the</strong><br />
prestigious small white tennis "ball."<br />
<strong>The</strong> smallest ball in <strong>the</strong> popular "white ball" series is <strong>the</strong> golf ball. Like<br />
tennis, golf has been <strong>the</strong> ball game of <strong>the</strong> most powerful males in <strong>the</strong> white<br />
supremacy system/culture. However, like tennis, it is spreading slowly<br />
throughout <strong>the</strong> white supremacy culture <strong>to</strong> include large numbers of white<br />
and non-white females.<br />
Interestingly, golf, <strong>the</strong> most "elite" of all of <strong>the</strong> ball games in <strong>the</strong> white<br />
supremacy culture, is played with a long dark-colored stick or "iron" held<br />
between <strong>the</strong> legs. This iron is smashed against <strong>the</strong> side of a very small<br />
white ball. <strong>The</strong> object is <strong>to</strong> knock this small white ball in<strong>to</strong> a hole in <strong>the</strong><br />
black earth (black mo<strong>the</strong>r earth- <strong>the</strong> Black female?). By attempting <strong>to</strong><br />
place his small white ball in <strong>the</strong> black earth, using a long dark stick, again<br />
<strong>the</strong> white male is attempting <strong>to</strong> identify with <strong>the</strong> possession of <strong>the</strong> genital<br />
equipment and privilege of <strong>the</strong> Black male, whose rightful partner is <strong>the</strong><br />
Black female. If this pattern of play in golf does not qualify as <strong>the</strong> very<br />
essence of male genital symbolism and neurotic conflict in <strong>the</strong> white male<br />
psyche, as formulated in this specific discussion, <strong>the</strong>n nothing does.<br />
Again, is it only a coincidence that <strong>the</strong> major event in golf competition<br />
should be called <strong>the</strong> Master's Tournament? Is this not a fitting title for<br />
<strong>the</strong> most elite of all ball games played by <strong>the</strong> masters of <strong>the</strong> "master race"?<br />
One final question: Is it a reflection of white male self-hate and<br />
self-rejection and rejection of <strong>the</strong> inadequacy of <strong>the</strong> white testicles<br />
("balls") that <strong>the</strong> games played with small white balls involve <strong>the</strong> balls<br />
being attacked, hit, struck and knocked far away from <strong>the</strong> body- in an act<br />
of masochism; whereas by contrast, <strong>the</strong> games played with large brown<br />
balls involve holding on <strong>to</strong> and possessing <strong>the</strong> balls? No large brown balls<br />
are struck with objects in <strong>the</strong> white supremacy culture's popular ball<br />
games. <strong>The</strong>re is indeed significance in <strong>the</strong>se facts. And even though <strong>the</strong><br />
large black bowling ball is rolled away from <strong>the</strong> body, its aim is <strong>to</strong> knock<br />
down symbols of <strong>the</strong> white phallus.<br />
Fur<strong>the</strong>r, is <strong>the</strong>re parallel significance in <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong> most powerful<br />
man in <strong>the</strong> global white supremacy system (Gerald Ford), on <strong>the</strong> day of<br />
his departure from office after losing <strong>the</strong> presidential election, left immediately<br />
<strong>to</strong> play golf- <strong>to</strong> beat <strong>the</strong> small white balls masochistically across<br />
<strong>the</strong> fairway in his hour of defeat and humiliation? It is of fur<strong>the</strong>r note that<br />
his predecessor, who was forced from office in absolute disgmce, also<br />
spends much of his time on <strong>the</strong> golf course beating small white balls.<br />
It seems of interest that <strong>the</strong> more powerful <strong>the</strong> white male becomes in<br />
<strong>the</strong> context of <strong>the</strong> white supremacy culture, <strong>the</strong> smaller <strong>the</strong> ball that<br />
becomes his focus of attention. Is this because <strong>the</strong> more <strong>the</strong> white male<br />
achieves what he wanted <strong>to</strong> believe was real power, <strong>the</strong> greater <strong>the</strong><br />
realization that his perception was only an inadequate compensation for<br />
a fundamental lack of true power- genetic power?<br />
Is it not also curious that when white males are young and vigorous,<br />
<strong>the</strong>y attempt <strong>to</strong> master <strong>the</strong> large brown balls, but as <strong>the</strong>y become older and<br />
wiser, <strong>the</strong>y psychologically resign <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir inability <strong>to</strong> master<br />
<strong>the</strong> large brown balls? <strong>The</strong>ir focus <strong>the</strong>n shifts masochistically <strong>to</strong> hitting<br />
<strong>the</strong> tiny white golf balls in disgust and resignation- in full final realization<br />
of white genetic recessiveness. It would be of fur<strong>the</strong>r interest <strong>to</strong> ascertain<br />
<strong>the</strong> number of army generals in <strong>the</strong> white supremacy system who play golf<br />
(demean white genetic material) while planning for race war or <strong>the</strong><br />
destruction of non-white genetic material. After <strong>the</strong> Chinese, a non-white<br />
people under white supremacy domination for many decades, were able<br />
<strong>to</strong> chase <strong>the</strong> whites out <strong>the</strong>ir country, <strong>the</strong> most popular ball game in China<br />
became ping-pong. <strong>The</strong> object of this ball game is <strong>to</strong> smash a tiny white<br />
ball back and forth across a table, perhaps in unconscious retaliation for<br />
<strong>the</strong> humiliation imposed upon <strong>the</strong> Chinese people by <strong>the</strong> whites. <strong>The</strong><br />
Chinese fmally mastered (beat) <strong>the</strong> white "balls."<br />
Similarly, golf and baseball, two "white ball" games, have become <strong>the</strong><br />
most popular ball games in Japan, a country of non-white people conquered,<br />
attacked and humiliated in a<strong>to</strong>mic war by white people. Perhaps<br />
at <strong>the</strong> conscious level, <strong>the</strong> Japanese (non-white) people believe <strong>the</strong>y are<br />
imitating <strong>the</strong>ir conquerors, whom <strong>the</strong>y admire. At <strong>the</strong> unconscious level,<br />
however, <strong>the</strong>y are, in turn, humiliating <strong>the</strong> inadequacy of <strong>the</strong> white<br />
testicles or "balls." <strong>The</strong> dynamics that motivate <strong>the</strong> conquered and <strong>the</strong><br />
conquerors are never <strong>the</strong> same.<br />
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