The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
Black Fear
brain-computers to make accurate correlations of the incoming sensory
data. Therefore, they will be incompetent in observing and treating new
problems, and they will be unable to perform adequately in the management
of new variations seen in previously recognized disease processes.
External environmental dynamics, which affect the body in health and
disease, are changing constantly, causing new and differing pictures of
disease states. The major factor in diagnosis is the ability of the
physician/scientist to make his or her own observations and for the brain
to make critical analyses of the data of observation, which is experience.
This series of acts, observation, experience and analysis then becomes the
basis for all follow-up activity in treatment and problem solution.
In summary, the physician/scientist, beginning with his or her observations,
works to uncover the courses of disease. Through knowledge of
the specific disease process, he or she works to affect treatment and cure.
Just as the physician/scientist has to face the problem of physical disease,
Black people and their scientists have to face and solve the problem of
Black oppression under white supremacy. In fact, Black people seeking
a scientific approach to the problem similarly must begin acting as
scientists, observing their situation, recording their own data and following
up with their own analysis of their observations, experience and data.
Their own analysis will then inform them of what it is that they, as Black
people, need to do to achieve their goal objectives.
To the extent that we fail to make our own fundamental observations
and to validate our own sensory experience, we can conclude that Blacks
lack the necessary levels of self-respect and self-confidence needed for
independent functioning. To the extent that we believe we cannot depend
100% upon our own sensory apparatus, we fail to have confidence in our
ability to make encompassing analyses; and to that same extent, we are
forced into dependency upon those whose brain-computers we believe to
be superior to our own.
If we do not have confidence in our ability to make independent Black
observations, Black analyses and Black plans for Black action, why
should we talk about or seek Black liberation? One never should seek
independence from those upon whom one feels permanently dependent,
for that would be an act of suicide. And, indeed, if that independence
were won, it soon would be returned to the fonner state of dependence.
Furthermore, if we believe that we are intellectually inferior to white
people, as our distrust of our capacity to observe and make correlations
would strongly imply, we simply should say this out loud for all the world
to hear: "Blacks are genetically inferior in terms of their intellectual
capacity as compared to their white counterparts." Then we should
content ourselves quietly and politely to be totally and permanently
dependent upon the white collective for all that we need, do, think and
say.
If Black behavioral, social and political scientists are supposed to be
incapable of making accurate analyses of behavioral, social and political
situations (local and worldwide), then Black physicians are also incapable
of making accurate medical diagnoses, and all Black patients should seek
white doctors. This would imply similarly that Black lawyers are incapable
of successfully handling legal cases, and all Black law clients
should seek white lawyers. Likewise, all Black students should seek
white teachers. Furthennore, all Black women seeking husbands should
seek white husbands, and all Black men seeking wives should seek white
wives. This activity would carry such reasoning to its logical though
absurd conclusions. If we do not wish to imply all of the above, let us get
about the business of Black problem-solving, beginning with the problem
of Black oppression under white supremacy. First and foremost, let it be
the responsibility of every Black person to know and understand how the
dynamic of white supremacy domination is expressed in all areas of
people activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics,
religion, sex and war.
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