The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
cooperation with the racist oppressive dynamic -albeit with an historical
and continuing chorus of complaints. This behavior of submission to and
cooperation with white supremacy is consistent with the illusion that there
can be a complete integration of non-whites into the white supremacy
system. In contrast to these modes of thought and action, the Black men
cited above are examples of resistance to and destruction of white
supremacy as an absolute form of injustice. These latter forms of behavior
require high levels of self- and group-respect and can be sustained only
when there is the willingness to give one's life for the achievement of
justice, as each of these men demonstrated.
However, it has been demonstrated (by the aforementioned men) that
the almost certain consequence of a pattern of consciously-determined
resistance to and destruction of white supremacy is death at the hands of
white supremacy advocates - those who see and understand white
supremacy as necessary to white survival. Even young Black children are
able to perceive and articulate that "If you try to help Black people, you
will be killed." When I asked a 10-year-old Black boy, "Don't you want
to study hard in school so that you can help Black people?" he immediately
answered "No," giving the above explanation. The chill of this reality
inherent in the maintenance of white supremacy does not escape Black
children, and it most certainly does not escape their elders, although the
latter are more sophisticated and know better than to admit the same
openly.
This fear of death at the hands of the white supremacy collective -
because it cannot be admitted aloud by the adult Black population -has
been repressed. The result of covering the fear has been the emergence
of the sick, protective logic that there is no longer a problem of white
supremacy, except in England perhaps and in Southern Africa; for Blacks
in the U.S., all of that has been solved. Additionally, there is the claim
that the only remaining stresses are Blacks rejecting other Blacks, be it
male versus female and female versus male, female versus female and
male versus male, or the fantasized Black middle class versus the fantasized
Black lower class. (Of course, the fact is that "class" does not refer
to income alone but to actual existing power. And since Blacks across
Black Fear
the board are oppressed and powerless under white supremacy, none of
us have power. Therefore, there are no classes among Blacks.)
.But~ return to the issue of Black defensive logic, these patterns of
logtc, whtch emphasize that the existing problems are mainly between
Blacks, are reflective of Black self-hate. This self-hatred is escalated and
reinforced by increasing Black suicide, Black-on-Black homicide, child
abuse and spouse abuse.
In addition to the aforementioned non-productive behaviors there are
also. increasing patterns of behavior that can be described as' inducing
semt-trance states, such as rhythmic hand-clapping, singing, dancing,
ex~e~sive "n~k" music playing, listening to radio music and shouting in
rehg10us settmgs. These patterns of behavior are manifested continually
by Black people to pitch themselves into possible altered cortical brain
states. Likewise, such brain states seem to have the effect of dampening
. the sense of an overwhelming external pain or danger over which Blacks
conceive we have no control. These practices, of course, avoid problem
confrontation and thereby prevent problem solution.
Similarly, the increase in interracial marriages can be viewed as a
means of escape and a means for Blacks to avoid the awareness of their
continuing status as permanent outsiders - outside of the "white chalk
circle" of white supremacy's numerical and genetic global necessity. It
s~oul~ be no~ed ~at in the white supremacy societal unit of Nazi Germany
the. highest InCidence of interracial marriage between Semites (nonwhttes)
and Germans (whites) occurred just prior to the ultimate destruction
of the Semites in the Holocaust. The Semites of the Jewish religion
were looked upon as non-whites because their ancestors were Black and
resided in Africa prior to entering Europe. (See Chapter 18.)
Similarly, some Blacks have sought to escape the confrontation with
white supremacy through Marxist doctrine, by attempting to conceive of
themselves as members of the "working class." They fail to see that Marx
who was a Semite (a non-white), was a victim of anti-Semitism. One third
of the world po~ulation of Semites of the Jewish religion were destroyed
by German white supremacy - meaning that millions of Marx • s own
descendants were destroyed in this process. Still, not one word of Marx's
156
157