Today a great number of African Americans favorably perceive the white race while negatively viewing their own. Today it is not uncommon to hear a black person make a declaration lessoning the significance of white racism while arguing that it is rather they themselves that are worst to their own communities. Some Blacks will argue this viewpoint with such immense conviction that it appear to be a crusade. These self contemptuous sentiments are also evident in how many now regards their own history of slavery. Many African Americans now blame more harshly their history of slavery on Africans rather than their white invaders. Some Blacks have even gone as far as to excuse whites by saying that it wasn’t their fault for enslaving us, but rather the fault of our own people for not wanting us. In addition, although the African Holocaust lasted four hundred years longer and resulted in millions of or more deaths than that of the Jewish Holocaust, many African Americans however often express greater regards and sympathy towards the Jewish Holocaust -over their own. This display of Black self contempt or low regard is almost always accompanied with a higher regard towards whites. Despite a brutal history to the contrary, many African Americans now holds the sentiment that whites are most often more humane, punctual, lesser to engage in crime, better spouses, less promiscuous, and are of a higher moral character. For some Blacks these perceptions have become so strongly affirm within their minds that they immediately react angrily against their fellow Blacks that makes any claims or references of white racism today. .
Generally, internalized racism in the Black community is more problematic now than at any other time in history. Never before have African Americans most favorably referred to themselves as “niggers” than they do now; never more than now, upon attaining wealth and success, have a greater number of Blacks deliberately rejected all potential Black spouses, preferring to marry only White spouses. And never more than now have even the poorest of Blacks spent a greater percentage of their yearly earnings on Europeanizing cosmetic surgeries, bleaching skin creams, chemical hair softeners, and hair weaves. Internalized racism is at an all-time high for Blacks in America. Considering these disturbing tendencies coupled with White America’s atrocious treatment of Blacks, how can the majority of African-Americans function as amnesiacs – forgetting this barbarity and simultaneously developing profound admiration for Whiteness and contempt for their Blackness?
The equally troubling question is not only how have we (Blacks) become self-hating, living contradictions of our former selves, but also how is it that the White race, with its unparalleled racism, subjugation of all other races, as well as unjustifiable wars and crimes against humanity is now perceived as the most ethical and moral racial group. What explains the present favorable perception of whites that contradicts historical facts? Clearly there is something terribly wrong here, but what? How has this happened to the Black mind? How have views commonly held by racist whites now become those of so many black people? Is it mere ly an incredibly convenient coincident that those racist perceptions commonly held by many whites are now those held by so many Black people?
The undeserving white admiration and self-loathing perceptions now among so many African Americans are outcomes of a deliberate media driven psychosocial program. It is an insidious, yet very sophisticated method of control that possesses both the ability to engender personal psychological feelings among African Americans and influence the climate of nation in regards to their plight. It is the most proficient racist system ever deplored against African Americans – and yet most are totally oblivious of its existence.
The constant relentless bombardment with d eplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with throughout the U.S. media is a deliberately designed psychological conditioning program. It is designed to adversely manipulate and shapes the minds and collective perceptions of America’s Black population by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche is designed to corrupts African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group thus pulverizing Black unity and halting Black upward mobility. It also totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality while insinuating that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites. It conditions America’s Black population to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are themselves, their own worst enemies. It is a psychosocial program that uses propaganda to divide, conquer and ultimately suppress it Black population and it is be ing deployed in all sectors – government, media, health and welfare, entertainment, and education, etc- nationally and internationally. The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, mass media psychological manipulation campaign meets this need—because it covertly creates a national climate that allows the government to suppress consensually the advancement of its African American population and to maintain its White dominance and control.
Unlike the blatantly brutal forms of racism used in the past, which Blacks were able to identify easily and therefore unify and form counter strategies, this modern method of racism works from a psychological perspective. This provided the U.S. government a more socially acceptable method of continuing the White racial hierarchy for dominance and control g iven that it is not as easily recognized. The basis of this concept of mind manipulation is that the human being’s most critical aspect is the mind and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. Here is a simplified example of how this is being implemented against African Americans.
Let us, for example, imagine that a crew of people was aboard their own massive ship and that this ship was being shadowed by another neighboring ship that was constantly broadcasting derogatory messages to the first group. Such messages as that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy, perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent and was planning a mutiny. With time, the group receiving the negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves. The perception created by the taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunt ed group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves.
The taunted group may even become so besieged by deep feelings of inadequacy that they may even jump into the sea and attempt to swim towards the taunting ship now believing it to be superior to their own boat even if their own ship was in fact better. Within a real life setting this mortifying psychological manipulation is precisely what is being done to African Americans through an immense campaign of false derogatory misinformation and false negative media reports, fake news, and statistics that are created by U.S. governmental agencies and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the stories as20their own. These false information about African Americans is then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports perpetuating and framing the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population..
To the detriment of Blacks, this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. Many Blacks may even begin to feel that there is something not quite right about their Black humanity. Moreover, all African Americans have experienced20the burden of this psychological warfare, some more severely than others have. It is experienced every time we [Blacks] read a newspaper, watch the evening news, enter a classroom, and read its racially biased textbooks. And while many Black Americans have successfully navigated through the psychology mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, but for far too many African Americans this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to accept subconsciously and painfully the negative portrayals of themselves. Many also become discouraged by the acceptance that their society is also preconditioned to see the worst in them and that, therefore, if they were ever to gain acceptance, if it is to be won at all, that success would be hard won and likely to manifest negative internalized psychological pain and distress within many African Americans that can take many forms.
In fact, this governmental mortifying psychological warfare against African Americans may be the most aggravating, if not core, factor of the national phenomenon of self hatred; loss of educational aspirations; loss of unity, cohesion and racial pride; and fragile psyches of many African Americans today. Moreover, this type of psychological manipulation program has been proven very effective in rapidly destroying a group’s ethical and moral values and cultural norms with regard to violence, brutality, and even murder. All people are products of cultural conditions and their worldviews operate outside of their level of consciousness. Therefore, no group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact. This mass manipulation program is In fact, so proficient at damaging the Black self-perception that tragically it has become easier for many Blacks to accept derogatory premises of themselves rather than recognizing this program.
This mass psychological conditioning program also significantly influences society as a whole. Its ultimate goal is to foster a consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed. The media’s constant negative imagery of Black Americans is not only fraudulently inaccurate but is actually being done to engender a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone, thus engendering increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today and attempts discourage miscegenation between Blacks and whites.
It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans. Wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the most fiercest and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is justified.]
It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. This campaign successfully stripped African Americans of the national and international support that was acquired during the 1960′s civil rights struggles. This anti Black governmental campaign of psychological warfare also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed.
Moreover, some studies have shown20that this shift of victimization now reflects increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably stronger today than they were after emancipation. The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, psychological warfare meets this need—because it covertly creates a national climate that allows the government to suppress consensually the advancement of its African American population and to maintain its White dominance and control.
By Franklin Jones
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