The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
The Symbolism of Smoking Objects
for the white male in Western (white) culture is black (and in the most
formal weddings, males wear black tails), while the bride wears white.
When dressed for most other important social occasions, the white
male similarily dresses in black ~tails' and black tie. Although the "tails"
hang in the back, they remain phallic symbols. Similarly ties (also usually
dark colored) are phallic symbols in a behavioral system/culture that
believes that "clothes make the man." The implication is that mother
nature (in the case of the albinos) .failed in some respect.
White males also believe that they look more virile and attractive when
suntanned (brown and bronzed). This belief is maintained despite the fact
that each year in the U.S. alone, there are 300,000 new cases of skin
cancer caused primarily by whites attempting to tan their pale skin into
greater attractiveness.
In this area of the world, white males also have had a long nefarious
history of lynching and castrating Black males and taking their genitals,
as well as other parts, home as prized and desired souvenirs to be
possessed- symbolically making them their own.
Just as the important ball games fall into two series (large black and
brown and small white), all major smoking objects in the white supremacy
culture fall into the same two series: large brown (cigars and pipes) and
small white (cigarettes).
Furthermore, the ball games played by the supposedly more virile men
entail the use of large brown balls, while the smoking objects chosen by
those men who wish to view themselves and be viewed as powerful, virile
and important are large brown smoking objects (cigars mainly, but also
pipes).
The late British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was estimated to
have smoked 300,000 eight or nine inch double coronas. John F. Kennedy
also is reported to have loved Havana cigars. And Fidel Castro, who
considers himself to be white, is never seen without a long cigar in his
mouth.
Whereas I maintain that the brown and white "balls" used in the ball
games in the white supremacy culture are symbols of the black and white
testicles, respectively, I maintain further that the brown and white smok-
ing objects are similarly symbols of the black and white phallus (penis).
Together, the balls in the ball games and the smoking objects constitute a
highly important symbol package of the complete male genitalia - the
penis and the testicles.
The white supremacy system/culture is preoccupied most fundamentally
not with profit, but with its genital and genetic status and survival on
the planet. It is only logical that since this great survival concern is not
discussed at the culture's conscious level, it manifests in other major
behavior activity within the system/culture, albeit largely at an unconscious
level. Thus, it is not surprising that these two important black and
white symbol series (balls and smoking objects) should be a central
preoccupation that cannot be curtailed in spite of the violence in ball
games and the cancer associated with smoking.
The white supremacy system/culture is dominated by white males.
However, white males still experience a deep sense of male genital and
genetic deficiency and inadequacy. This is due to the fact that white males
fear genetic annihilation by men of color. Thus, major activity on the part
of white males (via the system/culture they established) consists of the
unconscious drive and desire to boost or supplement the level of one's
maleness or masculinity and to internalize more male principle, element
or substance by any means possible. This sense of deficiency in male
principle also may be expressed in terms of sensed inadequacy and,
therefore, dependency and male-principle dependency need gratification.
In other words, in a culture and behavioral system where the most
dominant feature is a sense of male genital and genetic inadequacy (on
the part of albino males), the attempt to compensate for this sensed
deficiency most certainly will be manifested in some manner and patterns
of behavior.
The habitual pattern of placing the symbolic phallus (penis) in the oral
cavity is one example of symbolic compensation for sensed male genetic
and genital inadequacy. Smoking, as previously stated, is placing a
symbolic phallus in the oral cavity as a means of, again, internalizing more
masculinity (as the penis is that which most obviously makes the male a
male).
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