Subject: Re: On interracial relationships, or anything
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:25:52 GMT

Quasidemon (quasidemon@aol.com) wrote:
: intelligence.  The piece on European and African asili was truly enlightening.
: I now see how under the fundamental European assumptions, racism can never be
: "abolished."  Interesting, but the French have a saying, "The more things
: change, the more they stay the same." This would aptly apply to the
: metamorphosis of oppressive forces in fundamental European social constructs.
: One may try and try, but one can never be freed by a corrupt instrument.

You got my point!!
I was starting to wonder whether anybody was "getting it",
judging from David's reply, which resolutely refuses to
grapple with core issues.  I do not have the time, point
by point, to reply to David's blizzard of red herrings.
So I'll let this brief response serve, by indirection,
to respond also to David, at least for the time being.

There is a mountain of misconceptions under which he is
laboring, and since the misconceptions are widespread
among Blackfolk, I think it is important to address 
them, but I'm too busy right now.  I'll say only,
following Cress-Welsing, that those subject to white 
supremacy lose the ability to think straight: we keep 
coming up against this monster that is
so frightening that, rather than take in and process that 
reality, we deny it, and succumb to the trap of circular
thinking.  The terrified mind refuses to make certain
clear, logical, but horrifying conclusions, especially when
the source of the terror leaves what appears to be a safe,
comfortable alternative, namely of accommodation, even of
assimilation (also of salvation if but you would bow to
a--fraudulently depicted--white god).  I have in the 
past called this a form of Acquired Idiocy Disease (Stockholm 
Syndrome), or AIDss, with tongue only partially in cheek.  
For it is in fact the case that the Black community suffers 
a form of cultural AIDS, which in fact is caused by
racism (white supremacy), which in fact may be traced 
to a peculiar, European, cultural asili.  
The biggest mistake in attempting to deconstruct the behavior 
of the European is to take the European's worldview as 
being somehow a universal.  This is what we get from
David, also from Wayne, trapped as they are by the 
European asili which works like an AIDS pathogen within
their spirit.  I'll get back to David, not because 
I think he'll get the point, or acknowledge it if he
does, but because others following the discussion 
may find it of some benefit.

But for now, I have to run.

: -John Clarke

"If you do not understand White Supremacy
(Racism)... everything *else* that you
understand will only confuse you."
			--Neely Fuller

PS. Thanks for the high compliment, but the ideas are not
(that) original, and I give thanks to Marimba Ani, Cress-Welsing,
Diop, Asante, and a host of other African-Centered writers
who have cleared away the Euro-asilic cobwebs from my
brain.  


	 

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