The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The Isis Papers
unless global and local white supremacy is attacked continuously and
effectively, the Black male/Black female relationship has no chance of
surviving.
Black males and Black females would be in a continuous exchange of
information, knowledge and understanding (like true team members)
about how to counter white supremacy more effectively. This quality of
exchange could take place as much as we exchange phone numbers, jokes,
dance steps, trivia and (in all too many instances) drugs. There would be
much less time to look into each others eyes and become bored, and then
start quarreling and fighting. Instead, both persons would be looking
outward, beyond themselves, to counter local and global white
supremacy, which is the real problem annihilating the Black collective.
Actually, people grow closer together as long as they remain focused
outwardly in the same direction. By maintaining a like-minded focus,
Nelson and Winnie Mandela of South Africa have evolved possibly the
strongest marriage known to Black people worldwide. They deserve
recognition as the model for the Black male/Black female relationship.
They are looking outward, beyond themselves, to fight white supremacy.
By specifically fighting white supremacy, they prevent that force of
injustice from driving them apart.
When both the Black male and the Black female take up the struggle
for justice against white supremacy, they are endowed with the strongest
possible insurance that they will remain united. They are united in a
common effort against injustice, and simultaneously they express the
strongest possible statement about respect and love for themselves as
individuals. In doing this, the Black male and Black female are declaring
that they have conferred upon themselves the highest possible value,
which is essential if there is to be self- and group-defense.
The new answer to the Black male/Black female relationship dilemma
is for the Black male and the Black female to make serious, conscious
struggle against white supremacy their number one priority. Fortunately,
Neely Fuller has written a textbook for victims of white supremacy (The
United Independent Compensatory Code/System Concept) that details
specific behaviors that the Black male and female must adopt in order to
Black Male/Black Female Relationships
combat effectively the force that is driving them apart. Fuller suggests
that the most critical question is how Black males and Black females
spread their time (energy), how they use each of the 24 hours in the day.
He recommends: 1) constructive conversation, 2) constructive work, 3)
sufficient eating and sleeping, and 4) sexual intercourse no more than
twice a week. These suggestions deserve our full consideration. If energy
use was limited to just these activities by each Black male and Black
female, certainly we would become more responsible towards ourselves
as individuals, which would translate into more responsible interaction
with one another. It is critical that we realize our present patterns of
behavior permit white supremacy to exist. Directed radical change in
Black behavior, as suggested above, will alter permanently the face of
white supremacy, its victimization of the Black male and the Black female
and the destruction of the Black male/Black female ielationship.
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