Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dead at 80 - RIP

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http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/01/dr_frances_cress_welsing_dead_at_80.html


Renowned black psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, author of the seminal 1991 work, The Isis (Yssis) Papers: The Keys To The Colors (Third World Press) has died. She was 80 years old.

“Media Assassin” Harry Allen reports via Twitter that Dr. Welsing died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing died at 5:50 am, Sat., Jan. 2, from a stroke she suffered, mid-week. The void she leaves has no boundary.

— Harry Allen (@harryallen) January 2, 2016
Dr. Welsing was born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago. Both her father and grandfather were medical doctors, and her mother was a teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree from Antioch College, and her M.D. from the Howard University College of Medicine. In 1974, Dr. Welsing became famous for her paper, the “Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation” which she published while an assistant professor of pediatrics at Howard’s medical school.

According to Welsing, the work caused such a stir that her tenure at the university was not renewed in 1975. Dr. Welsing then spent more than 20 years as a staff physician for the Department of Human Services in Washington, D.C., and was a specialist in both child and general psychiatry, gaining particular acclaim for her work with young people.

Additionally, she was a celebrated scholar who studied the origins of white supremacy from a psychological and biological perspective, and was a proponent of the “Melanin Theory,” which espouses black superiority due to a higher concentration of melanin in people of African descent.

As a psychiatrist, Welsing used Freudian symbolism to explain white supremacy, including the interpretation of guns, money, the cross and gold. She has faced some controversy regarding her stance on homosexuality, which she said was imposed on black men by whites who wanted to reduce the African population.

Dr. Welsing is perhaps best known for her 1991 book, The Isis Papers, which reportedly came about after 20 years of research and analysis from her private practice. It is considered required reading for those interested in the psychological origins and manifestations of white supremacy.

Many prominent Afro-centrists including Chuck D, Roland Martin and others took to social media on Saturday morning to express their grief under the hashtag #FrancesCressWelsing.
 

dHustla

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RIP BLACK PIONEER

I'ma be needing that Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation & ISIS Papers. I would like em on audiobook, but I think I need these in my physical collection
 
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R.I.P.
 

kefta

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RIP BLACK PIONEER

I'ma be needing that Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation & ISIS Papers. I would like em on audiobook, but I think I need these in my physical collection
Bruh, the Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation is the ISIS Papers. They are one and the same.
 

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Dr. Welsing was a groundbreaking scholar. Way ahead of her time. The Isis Papers is a MUST-READ on the psychopathology of white supremacy.

R.I.P. Mother Sister
 

WhenTheGoingGetsTtuff

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Ya'll know she spoke PRO women right? While you talking all this RIP stuff. She was AGAINST THOROUGHLY white supremacy. While many of you in this thread embrace it. And enforce it against black women.
 

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:smh: Really? That's what you think of "us"? :smh:

Most of you are rabid damn animalistic anti black woman. Many of you want to uphold white supremacist thought and action when it comes to black women. You think just because you might not shout from the rooftops like others you're not. But it's in the things you say. You should know this. I'll be attacked and stuff for this but....anybody with their eyes open sees it just i do.
 

King Natty

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Most of you are rabid damn animalistic anti black woman. Many of you want to uphold white supremacist thought and action when it comes to black women. You think just because you might not shout from the rooftops like others you're not. But it's in the things you say. You should know this. I'll be attacked and stuff for this but....anybody with their eyes open sees it just i do.
Why don't you start a new thread on that and leave this one for folks to come and pay respect to the sista
 

kefta

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Most of you are rabid damn animalistic anti black woman. Many of you want to uphold white supremacist thought and action when it comes to black women. You think just because you might not shout from the rooftops like others you're not. But it's in the things you say. You should know this. I'll be attacked and stuff for this but....anybody with their eyes open sees it just i do.
Does many include me? Who does it include? Names and supporting evidence. Just asking...
 

respiration

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Does many include me? Who does it include? Names and supporting evidence. Just asking...
Any time any of us preface something negative with "Black women _______", that is displaying that kind of behavior.
 
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