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Excerpt from The Isis
Papers: The Keys to the Colors
written by Dr.
Frances Cress-Welding
THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE FOR PARENTS OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN
Black people, as a collective, are becoming
increasingly sophisticated. We are becoming strong
enough to face many unpleasant realities and truths about
ourselves and the social system and world that we live in,
without denial or panic....
Black children are our most valuable possession
and our greatest potential resource. Any meaningful
discussion of the survival or the future of Black people
must be predicated upon Black people's plan for the maximal
development of all Black children. Children are the
only future of any people. If the children's lives are
squandered, and if the children of a people are not fully
developed at whatever cost and sacrifice, the people will
have consigned themselves to certain death. They will
be destroyed from without or from within--by the attack of
their own children against them. And they may be
destroyed by both. Black people now are being attacked
in the streets (from within) by our own youths, as well as
being attacked (from without) by our collective oppressor.
This reality reveals the central questions of this essay,
which Black people must answer: 1) Will Black children
in the U.S. ever develop to their maximum genetic potential?
2) If so, who will assume ultimate responsibility for
bringing about the maximal development -- Black people
themselves or white people? 3) If Black children are not to
be maximally developed, what do Black people really think is
going to happen to this large Black undeveloped mass of
human beings? And, 4) Are white people in any way
looking to Black people for the maximal development of white
children?
...
In a social system designed to achieve white
domination, the experience of that system molds white
children so that they may function in the role of the
oppressors, or the "functional superiors" (because that is
what white supremacy is supposed to mean: that whites
will function in a superior way as compared to non-whites).
Through structured superior functioning, whites will be able
to oppress others. The same social system
simultaneously will mold all children classified as
"non-whites" or "others" to play the role of the "functional
inferiors," or the oppressed. This is why a white
racist social system is completely incapable of providing
total equality of opportunity to Blacks. Such a system
must, for its maintenance, produce differential levels of
functioning for whites and non-whites.
...
We must struggle as individuals to build this
essential new African self respect through the following
exercises: 1) We must stop gossiping about one another; 2)
we must stop name calling one another; 3) we must stop
squabbling with one another; 4) we must stop competing and
comparing ourselves with one another; 5) we must stop
making babies of our sons and lovers and then calling them
incompetent behind their backs; 6) and instead of looking
into the mirror each morning asking, "Mirror, mirror on the
wall, am I the fairest one of all?" we should begin to ask,
"mirror, mirror on the wall, am I fooling my black self at
all?"
We do not have many choices remaining. The time
is short and the crisis situation, though not of our own
making, is upon us. Will we continue to be the "Cooperating
Cleopatras" or will we be the fighting, struggling warrior
Queens? Racism, now as in Cleopatra's time is war against
Black People, against the Black Family, against Black Men,
against Black Women and against Black Children, throughout
the world. There is no war in history that has gone away
with a wish or a prayer. Wars must be fought with the
willpower, knowledge, courage and determination of people.
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