tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post5201289792416711069..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Racism is a Mental Illness: Barack Obama, Rapist of Freedom and the Statue of LibertyLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-76649810240665081002010-03-31T13:56:52.414-05:002010-03-31T13:56:52.414-05:00@Lady Zora et al
Thanks for your reply. I was dis...@Lady Zora et al<br /><br />Thanks for your reply. I was disagreeing more with the person who suggested Welsing than the actual post.<br /><br />Do you remember back when Condi called American racism a "birth defect"? Disagreed with that analogy, too.<br /><br />I suppose for myself, I just don't accept biological explanations or analogies for white supremacy and would indeed lean strongly towards a more Foucauldian reading. They're too reductive, plus, we know the history of the ever-expanding category of "white", and also its legal and historical limits.<br /><br />Might be worth it to add, these people have made themselves sick with their own circular rage, blaming us for their own miserable lot in life, while it's been their own people who have made the rules, laws and social norms, enforced with lethal violence.<br /><br />Welsing's absurd race fundamentalism is just...well, <i>crankage</i>, in my book. Heh, no doubt, she'd say the same about anything found at my place.OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalinhttp://ohcrapihaveacrushonsarahpalin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-12488152607781307842010-03-31T11:05:00.533-05:002010-03-31T11:05:00.533-05:00@Ohcrap--
Does one preclude the other? Meaning th...@Ohcrap--<br /><br />Does one preclude the other? Meaning that one can have a behavior that is diagnosable in the DSM and that can still be "learned" or unlearned (PTSD; OCD?)--even if one does or does not have a genetic precondition for it. I am not suggesting that there is a racist gene (although research does seem to suggest that there is a "tribal" gene/instinct that contributes to our fight or flight instinct) but that people who are racist are mentally ill in the sense of possessing dysfunctional behaviors.<br /><br />As I write this though--I guess I have been reading too much Foucault for lecture today--that racism while a sickness of sorts to us today, was the norm for much of U.S. history. In fact the "sick" people would have been the anti-racists!<br /><br />Funny huh?<br /><br />Please, those of you who know more about psychotherapy please chime in as this is just layperson's reasoning.<br /><br />cdLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-14546717520011556122010-03-31T05:04:24.984-05:002010-03-31T05:04:24.984-05:00Frances Cress Welsing is a straight-up crank with ...Frances Cress Welsing is a straight-up crank with long-discredited ideas. There is <b>nothing</b> genetic about these people's mentality or violent, murderous, sexually sick behavior. It is taught, learned, and thus can be unlearned.<br /><br />They are ignorant and lazy in a society which continues to reward their sense of wounded victimhood. Do not let them fall back on crapola like genetics to excuse what is correctible behavior.OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalinhttp://ohcrapihaveacrushonsarahpalin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-10534687290655205822010-03-31T03:52:21.947-05:002010-03-31T03:52:21.947-05:00Speaking of freedom of speech, check out the new l...Speaking of freedom of speech, check out the new language of the right: Teabonics. It's hilarious.<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/SLMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-72072741433707564982010-03-30T20:06:02.065-05:002010-03-30T20:06:02.065-05:00I don't even know what to say other than "...I don't even know what to say other than "WTF, America?" Yes, we have freedom of speech in this country, but freedom of speech does not equal hate and bitterness. Freedom "to do" is also freedom "to do NOT." That's where the responsibility comes into play. You are free to NOT insult. You are free to NOT disrespect. You are free to NOT fear. You are free to NOT slander.<br /><br />And shame on these people who swallow every line fed to them without thinking them through first. They are the reasons we will eventually lose our freedoms--because they were too lazy to take responsibility for what they believed and what they said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-69217312788283297252010-03-30T17:08:35.173-05:002010-03-30T17:08:35.173-05:00I wrote about this recently as well.
White folks ...I wrote about this recently as well.<br /><br />White folks are slick man, you gotta stay on your toes with them.<br /><br />http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/2010/03/flipping-it-foul.htmlBig Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02510881583909431416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-38883331470807356302010-03-30T16:21:32.773-05:002010-03-30T16:21:32.773-05:00You spoke a word when you said racism is sickness....You spoke a word when you said racism is sickness. Spiritual sickness. A very sad sickness, that's going unchecked rampaging like HIV. Very few will even lift their heads to acknowledge this sickness, so it spreads. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing spoke about it more than 20 years ago in her highly controversial book The Isis Papers. black-folks.blogspot.com<br />She has a theory she calls White genetic anihilation that speaks to a subconcious white fear of their racial destruction by peoples of color with blacks being the most fear inducing because we have the most color. Maybe she's not off base because it would explain this irrational fear masquerading as racism that some white folks have. <br />I think I'll pull that book off my shelf and give it another read after 18 years!Anna Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614002862475111740noreply@blogger.com