CHINWEIZU SPEAKS: Negrophobia

[Baba Ahmed]

"On Negrophobia: Psychoneurotic Obstacles to Black Autonomy

(or Why I just love Michael Jackson)

Negrophobia, the fear and dislike of Black people, is a great disease. It has killed more Black people in the last five hundred years than all other diseases combined: more than malaria, more than epidemics and plagues of all sorts, In the coming years, it could kill far more than AIDS. It is a psychological disease, a disease of the mind, which harvests dead black bodies every day.

The Black people who died through slavery were killed by negrophobia. The Black people who died all over the globe from white colonial aggression were killed by negrophobia. The Black people who died in our liberation struggles - Bookman, Toussaint and Dessalines with all their soldiers in Haiti; the Mau Mau warriors in Kenya; the liberation fighters in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and elsewhere were all killed by negrophobia.

The Black people dying from the structures and policies of neocolonialism are dying from negrophobia. The Black people killed by AIDS, a disease manufactured by white people in the biological warfare labs of the USA and deliberately introduced into central Africa and Haiti to kill off Black people, are dying of negrophobia.

Ah, Negrophobia, I didn't know that hate could kill so many!

Negrophobia is a psychoneurosis, a mental disorder. So too is blancophilia, its twin. If someone hates everything black, including the black butterfly, including the most fertile black soil, isn't he mentally disturbed? If someone loves everything white, including white trash, including white arsenic, isn't he mentally disturbed? Negrophobia and blancophilia form a syndrome, a characteristic set of psychoneurotic passions that occur together.

The negrophobia syndrome is characterised by melanotropism. A magnetic movement away from or toward different intensities of melanin, the skin pigment. Blancophilia induces a reflex movement toward things white, even toward white ugliness. The stimulus object is white skin, any skin that is low in melanin.

Negrophobia, for its part, induces a reflex movement away from things black, even from black beauty. The stimulus object is black skin, any skin blessed with melanin in high dosage.

Negrophobia and blancophilia are, of course, conditioned responses to white power and black powerlessness. In a sad case of stimulus substitution, the responses to superior power have become transferred to white skin, and those to powerlessness have become transferred to black skin. The negrophobia syndrome is a chronic disease with the white race, a disease born of pride of power. It is a disease with which they have infected the whole world, including the Black race, giving rise to negro negrophobia, the disease of black self-hate.

Negro negrophobia is a most absurd disease. Can you imagine some Black person running to escape his blackness? To escape from himself? His obsession with fleeing from himself proves he is unfit to live. His running to embrace his white enemy proves he is a suicide. The entire affair shows he is mad. Some call it alienation, a mental disorder. Yet some black sirens now sing in praise of alienation, beckoning all Black people to acquire the disease.

What are the symptoms of negro negrophobia? Negro negrophobia makes Black women bleach, till some proudly sport yellow monkey faces and ebony-black thighs. (or Fanta Orange face and Coca-cola legs as some call it). It makes Black parents prefer their lighter skinned children to the darker skinned. It makes Black people who marry white or mulatto think they are marrying up and improving the race. It makes a pitch-Black Sudanese proclaim himself Arab, on account of just one white Arab ancestor ten generations back; it makes him count as nothing, indeed as a blemish, all his 1,023 black ancestors in that generation, and all the millions before and since.

Negro negrophobia makes Black Americans, and now Black South Africans too believe that integrating white neigbourhoods is social advancement. It makes Black people desperate to integrate white schools, white churches, white communities, white ideologies, white movements and white organizations. Some would even gladly die to integrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Negro Negrophobia makes Black people defer to white people. It makes bright Black boys, the thinkers of the race, obey the IMF, the World Bank, GATT and the UN, even when they know that the orders from such outfits are aimed to destroy their own people. It makes black intellectuals swallow and spout any silly idea, provided it is put forth by some guru of the white world, like Marx, like Jesus, like Mohammed.

Negro negrophobia makes Black people accept leaders of thought and of action that are chosen for them by white people. It makes Black people revere any third class mind, any tinpot potentate, that white people anoint to confuse and mislead them But for negro negrophobia, we would automatically reject any leader chosen for us by our historic enemies. But for negro negrophobia, we would thoroughly suspect the loyalty to the Black race of any Black Rhodes Scholar, of any Black Nobel laureate, of any Black Faisal laureate, of any Black Lenin laureate, of any black knight or peer of England, of any black elect of the French Academy. He would have to work extra hard to convince us that he is not an agent sent to help hasten our ruin.

Believing the blancophile dogma that white is right, that white is quick-witted, that white is beauty and virtue and salvation; believing the negrophobe dogma that black is wrong, that black is dumb, that black is ugliness and sin and damnation, the negrophobic Black person does not feel comfortable in a Black people-only group. Black people-only associations give him claustrophobia; he must throw open the doors to let in some white skin to boss or spy on him; only then can he relax; only then can he feel that all is well with his world. Negro negrophobia is, thus, a disease which drives Black people to crave racial integration and to espouse continentalist Pan-Africanism.

In multi-racial societies, it drives the Black elites to flee to white suburbs. In the name of racial equality, they decapitate their own Black communities, rob the ghetto of Black leadership, and abandon it to confusion and predatory gangs. In the name of Black freedom they flee from the Black world. Similarly, in international relations, pulled by the call of the white, Black people are eager to join a British Commonwealth. They are desperate to join a French Community. They sell their sanity to join a Russian Collective. And an Arab empire? They disown their black inheritance to get into its latrine! They will pay any price, suffer any humiliation, to join any club formed by white people But a Black community, or commonwealth, or league? They will not only not join, they will oppose its being formed at all!

The idea of Black people getting together, all by themselves, disorganizes their being. In their blancophilia they are self made orphans desperately seeking white foster homes. For all their outcry on behalf of the Black community, all they want is to disappear into the whiteness of the white world, whether Arab or European. They want to disappear by any means possible or available physically, mentally, emotionally.

In such ways, negro negrophobia has affected Pan-Africanism, affected Negritude, affected even the great leaders of these Black Redemption Movements. Senghor's Francophilia weakened his Negritude; made him ecstatic to join the "Universal Civilization" by becoming an elect of the French Academy.

Nkrumah's Arabophilia subverted the Garveyism of his Black Star symbol; it truncated his Pan-Negro Pan-Africanism into a continentalist Pan-Africanism which would exclude Garvey from membership of its organizations, and which distorted Pan-Africanism into an Arab and Black African tango.

With Du Bois, when the racial integrationism of his NAACP triumphed, it wrecked the Black community in the USA; it bore the bitter fruit of black ghettos whose absentee Black leaders squat in white suburbia, squawking as hostages to white power.

Cheikh Anta Diop's Marxism, with its dedication to the primacy of multi-racial class solidarity, made him most unenthusiastic about a sub-Sahara Federation of Black Africa. He would accept it only as a very last resort, only if the Arab invader-settlers doggedly excluded themselves.

Mandela's liberalism, with its dedication to the primacy of multi-racialism, is all set to subvert the cardinal goal of returning to the Black aborigines of South Africa all the land stolen from them by the white invader-settlers.

Senghor, Nkrumah, Du Bois, Cheikh Anta Diop and Mandela are proof that not even the best among us are immune from the negrophobia syndrome. Of the great black redeemers of the 20th century, only Garvey escaped the syndrome, principally because he was unequivocal and uncompromising on black solidarity. Significantly, he did not call his movement Pan-Africanism, with all the equivocation on race that is harboured by that term; he called it the United Negro Improvement Association, a name which unequivocally implies a redemption movement of Black people, by Black people, for Black people.

To call yourself a leader of Black people, one leading them to liberation from the white world, and yet run off to integrate white suburbia isn't that absurd?

It can only mean that your Black Consciousness is shallow, or even opportunistic; that hiding under your black mask is a blancophile heart. To call yourself a leader of Black people, one leading them out of the prison cell of white power, and yet insist on bringing white people into every organization for Black people isn't that folly of the first order? Those Black people who espouse continentalist Pan-Africanism, are they not like those Trojans who carried the Greek wooden horse into their own citadel, and hastened their people's destruction?

If you are such a Black leader or intellectual, take a look at Michael Jackson and see the incarnation of your spirit, see your mind made flesh. Michael Jackson has most publicly done what black negrophobiacs secretly dream of doing: act out George Schuyler's great satire Black No More! Michael Jackson is the supreme, public example of negro negrophobia, which is why he is such a valuable negative example, which is why I just love Michael Jackson. Every racially integrating Black person, every continentalist Pan-Africanist Black person, is Michael Jackson minus opportunity. They are the social and political counterparts of Wacko Jacko, as the white press dubbed him. The only difference is that he has carried his negro negrophobia to its logical, physical conclusion turn himself into a fake white man! Because the others cannot afford the cash or courage for the skin and bone surgery, they settle for the next best thing: they disappear into white communities, or integrate into white ideologies and white movements. Presumably, from seeing so many white faces around them at all times they will lose sight of the fact that they themselves are Black people.

After being created and entrenched by five centuries of white power, Negro negrophobia has, alas, become a character neurosis. From one generation to another, Black parents pass on to their children the neurotic character structures which foster negrophobic attitudes and behaviour. The global mechanisms of white power (religion, media, school, advertising, propaganda) then reinforce the neurosis.

Black people, alas, cannot take control of the Black World until they are cured of this neurotic syndrome. Until they get rid of this neurotic plague, any white boy or white girl or white child can seize control of their affairs by flashing a bit of white skin. Proof? All you need do is introduce a white face among negrophobic Black people and they become disorganised, they become disoriented. Just put one ugly blondie among them, and their eyes will stray and their minds will wander from the doughnut before them and focus on the white hole. Some will be obsessed with desire for whitey; some will be obsessed with hate for whitey; either way, they lose touch with basic reality and ignore what they must do to keep control of their lives, their situation, their environment. And at that point, any white waif can take them over.

What then is the cure? That is for our medical and social scientists to investigate. But from the sidelines, let me observe that it may require psychotherapy, both individual and group therapy. It may require cultural therapy, with basic retraining to break the habits of the negrophobic syndrome and inculcate non-negrophobic habits of thought and valuation. It would be the job of homes, schools, media, and social organisations to bring up new generations untainted with Negrophobia and blancophilia. It may require, above all, environmental therapy of a political sort, through the emergence of at least one powerful Black nation that would destroy the five-century-old correlation of white skin with power and black skin with powerlessness. That is probably the strategic cure for the syndrome.

My guess is that until the power therapy for this power neurosis is accomplished, all other therapies would be only partially effective. Whatever the case, until the race cures itself of negrophobia, it has no future. Which is why getting rid of Negro negrophobia is perhaps the cardinal task of internal reparation.


Chinweizu

[Baba Ahmed]

BUMP IT UP!

[Kushnology]

Hotep!

This was brilliant brother Baba. Keep it coming!

[Uhuru Kimathi]

The Black people who died in our liberation struggles - Bookman, Toussaint and Dessalines with all their soldiers in Haiti; the Mau Mau warriors in Kenya; the liberation fighters in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and elsewhere were all killed by negrophobia.


If someone hates everything black, including the black butterfly, including the most fertile black soil, isn't he mentally disturbed?


HAVE NO WORDS BABA, IT STRIKES TO THE BONES!!!!
I STILL AXS MA SELF WHY THE PHOBIA

[Baba Ahmed]

Medase bruthas! and lets remember Pharoah Hatsetshut, Queen Nzinga (who lop'd off the name Anna) and continue to live in the Spirits of Warrior Maroons!!!


Kwame


PS: bewary in dem blogs.

[ShakaZulu]

Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. Salaam; Everyone. The fact of the matter is, that the black family, need much praying over. None, but The One GOD, can heal. It's a shame that the people run to anyone else, when they're in need of help!

007.023 They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged our own souls: If thou forgive us not and bestow not upon us Thy Mercy, we shall certainly be lost." Al-Qur'an, 007.023 (Al-Araf [The Heights])

003.147 All that they said was: "Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and anything We may have done that transgressed our duty: Establish our feet firmly, and help us against those that resist Faith." Al-Qur'an, 003.147 (Aal-E-Imran [The Family of Imran])

028.016 He prayed: "O my Lord! I have indeed wronged my soul! Do Thou then forgive me!" So (Allah) forgave him: for He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

028.017 He said: "O my Lord! For that Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace on me, never shall I be a help to those who sin!"
Al-Qur'an, 028.016-017 (Al-Qasas [The Story, Stories]) [re:Musa/Moses, PBUH]

021.087 And remember Zun-nun, when he departed in wrath: He imagined that We had no power over him! But he cried through the depths of darkness, "There is no god but thou: glory to thee: I was indeed wrong!" Al-Qur'an, 021.087 (Al-Anbiya [The Prophets]) [re:Jonah PBUH]

003.016 (Namely), those who say: "Our Lord! we have indeed believed: forgive us, then, our sins, and save us from the agony of the Fire;"-

003.017 Those who show patience, Firmness and self-control; who are true (in word and deed); who worship devoutly; who spend (in the way of Allah); and who pray for forgiveness in the early hours of the morning. Al-Qur'an, 003.016-017 (Aal-E-Imran [The Family of Imran])

059.010 And those who came after them say: "Our Lord! Forgive us, and our brethren who came before us into the Faith, and leave not, in our hearts, rancour (or sense of injury) against those who have believed. Our Lord! Thou art indeed Full of Kindness, Most Merciful." Al-Qur'an, 059.010 (Al-Hashr [Exile, Banishment])

023.117 If anyone invokes, besides Allah, Any other god, he has no authority therefor; and his reckoning will be only with his Lord! and verily the Unbelievers will fail to win through!

023.118 So say: "O my Lord! grant Thou forgiveness and mercy for Thou art the Best of those who show mercy!"
Al-Qur'an, 023.117-118 (Al-Mumenoon [The Believers])

007.143 When Moses came to the place appointed by Us, and his Lord addressed him, He said: "O my Lord! show (Thyself) to me, that I may look upon thee." Allah said: "By no means canst thou see Me (direct); But look upon the mount; if it abide in its place, then shalt thou see Me." When his Lord manifested His glory on the Mount, He made it as dust. And Moses fell down in a swoon. When he recovered his senses he said: "Glory be to Thee! to Thee I turn in repentance, and I am the first to believe."
Al-Qur'an, 007.143 (Al-Araf [The Heights])

002.285 The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His angels, His books, and His messengers. "We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His messengers." And they say: "We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys." Translations by A. Yusuf Ali.
Text Copied from DivineIslam's Qur'an Viewer software v2.9

[2.286] Allah does not impose upon any soul a duty but to the extent of its ability; for it is (the benefit of) what it has earned and upon it (the evil of) what it has wrought: Our Lord! do not punish us if we forget or make a mistake; Our Lord! do not lay on us a burden as Thou didst lay on those before us, Our Lord do not impose upon us that which we have not the strength to bear; and pardon us and grant us protection and have mercy on us, Thou art our Patron, so help us against the unbelieving people. [Translation by M.H. Shakir; Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc.]


Salaam. ShakaZulu

[Baba Ahmed]

Wa alaykum salaam brutha

First understand something about this "column." It was granted to me, Kwame Baba Ahmed. If u read its introduction, u'd know that. I seldom complain when unsolicited comments come forth. No problema. Preaching by any other than me is not allowed. If I'd intended to turn this space into a space for khutba deliveries, I'd done so. If I'd need to read a Qur'an, I need no help from your verbatim English language quotes. I have access to many in different translated meanings of Qur'an. Plus a nine volume Arabic/English Lexicon. I learned much, especially about morals and ethics. I've learned and give thanks for learning more through studying my people's Stories and HisStories.

Many here do not appreciate having sermons from Qur'an, unsolicited, given to them. I don't do it. And will not allow anyone else to do it. There are a few Muslim members here. Few have come here aping Christian Bible Thumpers. I give thanks for that. There're varying sub ideologies presented at this site; however the primary and major one here is PAN AFRIKAN NATIONALISM; in other words BLACK NATIONALISM. Housed in an Afrikan Worldview, that doesn't exclude our sistahs, bruthas, nor distant cousins of similar worldviews.

YT is unwelcome and any who come in manners exhibited like YT. E.g., like the 15th Century on down til today, Jesuit Priests of Catholicism. I'm not here to "teach" YT anything; nor to forgive him and her. I vehemently will oppose anyone who comes among us manifesting the same old attitudes and words of the first religious believers who came into Mama Afrika with a Book in one hand and swords, bullets and deceit in the other. There's a saying: fool me once, shame on you; do it twice and more, shame on me! Our valiant ancestor Omowale Malik Shabazz told us we'd been bamboozled, tricked and lied to 40 years ago. That was one of the first in this era.

NEVER AGAIN say our MAROON spirited sistahs and bruthas.

NEVER AGAIN

Frankly I wonder why folk like u and another professed Muslim are allowed to remain here. The other gives da'wah via pictures and quotes, in a direct indirect manner; U just bust onto this site spit'n what u believe while openingly saying everyone other than those who believe as u do are astray. Lost in jahiliyyah; whose souls will burn in jahannum. But I'm not an administrator and accept their reticence in matters like this.

You've been, or should have been taught, to not revile "their gods," i.e., other peoples' for perchance they will revile your's. But just as 7th Century Muslims brought Islam to my ancestors by force and trickery, here u come in the same light. Plus one that is filtered in translations of an Ayran, a Shi'ite and another in Ahmadiyyah perspective who in his introductory comments clearly says who the translation's audience is: Europeans! Yes, Yusef 'Ali admits to this; I give thanks. Check yourself. Keep teaching your family. If u persist run'n all over this site's forums quoting Qur'an, u'll leave no choice but to have a recommendation that u be banned. It may have no effect board wide; but I can ban you from BABA SPEAKS! In the interest of damping friction sure to arise between folk who claim to be Afrikan descended or cousins therefrom.

So again, do not post any word here warning us and/or calling folk to Islam or praying for us. Not here!!!

Each soul has to account for his or her thoughts, speech and actions. Ain't a damn thing you can do for anyone other than yourself. By the way u quote Musa's words; ever ask yourself or research from where he got his learnings? Its told to you in your book. Even your book tells you that there're those with eyes to see, yet they see not; with ears to hear and do not hear; with intelligence, yet they choose the wrong path. This here is not a path of Muslim adherents.

My advice to you is to go among those who think, speak, and act like u have here; warn them about openingly inviting Europeans and Faggits to join their ranks.

Now be nice; your adab stinks. However I leave u as you pretended to come: in peace.

A LUTA CONTINUA! FOR AFRIKANS AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA, who choose their own historical and traditional Deities; who will fight "devils" no matter their size, color, nationality or stench.

Kwame

[ShakaZulu]

In The Name Of The Sovereign GOD. Peace; well, you know , I saw something in the Chinweizu, post that I thought could relate to my expertise. I have had personal experience with some of the subject matter. I see prayer as a call to The Sovereign, for guidance. Man for all of his meager learning, and to my mind, about all the wrong things, cannot free himself without "Perfect," guidance. Most people in the world, know nothing of "Perfection." This is due to the shackles that have been placed on the minds of the masses.

I don't know why I would want a Baba Ahmed Speaks, blog. I have no interest in posting articles. I just happened by, like I do with any other thread, thought I could lend a hand, to help someone understand a bad situation. It may be that I would have had additional important input. You/we'll never know.

Sermon? All I did was remind people that they are being neglectful of their Sovereign Lord. And that it is HE, Alone, that Heals.

Islam rules in All of The Worlds, That Allaah; The Dominant, The Praiseworthy, has made. That's what Islam, is. It isn't some modern styled religion. You have difficulty with the Real - "original" - blackmen, that aren't afraid to standup for what they know, to be truth. But, as I inferred above, I wasn't proselytizing. Not here, or, any other thread.

The verses that I had posted, reflect The Forgiveness, of Your Sovereign Lord. That, was the gist, of my post.

Everybody, has to let off a little steam every now and then. I'm not taking offence. I pray that I haven't offended you in my comments. I can recall stating my point of view, concerning nationalism, in a PM, to you some year, or two ago. Maybe I still have a copy, if you care to read it. Nothing is changed. I still stand on what I'd declared, then.

Peace, ShakaZulu

[Mamazen]

Originally Posted by ShakaZulu

Sermon? All I did was remind people that they are being neglectful of their Sovereign Lord. And that it is HE, Alone, that Heals.

Your God is not mine. Never has been- never will be.

I'm a practicing Bhuddist.

[DJ RBG]

Warrior ShakaZulu this space "Baba Ahmed Speaks" belongs to our Elder King, please respect his wishes in regard to this space, asante sana in advance.

ps anything less may cause your account to be disabled.

[Baba Ahmed]

Thanks Chief Warrior DJ RBG