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Summary: apply the logic - then you decide
Review: One fact common to all colours and creed is that people will believe what they need to believe, and discard all else, regardless of the power of its truth. By this statement alone it may be a futile attempt to defend this book, as I will only be preaching to the converted, or the unconvertable. But the truth must always be defended. For those who find Dr Cress-Wesling's theory of white genetic annhialation a little too well thought out, a little too extreme, a little frightening even. For those who doubt its legitimacy, its accuracy or its necessity. For those who just don't understand it or want some hard proof, a suggestion. Simply take a look at all of the west's popular culture. In particular, its modern culture. Its hollywood blockbusters. It's cultural heroes. Its headline news. A close look with an inquiring eye will reveal a common thread. It is said that culture is to society what dreams are to the individual. It is where we process and play out are innermost fears and fantasies. The window of our psyche. Art does not enter into the popular culture through hype alone. There must be a common denominator that strikes a chord and alerts ones spirit. Dr Cress-Wesling theorises on what this chord is. She may be right, you may believe she is wrong, but the strength of any theory is in its application. If nothing else, understand that this book is not produced out of hatred, on the contrary, a clear understanding of the motivations of mankind is in the interest of all humanity. Irrespective of creed or colour. By the way, have you seen Star Wars?..............
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Summary: Truly weird
Review: "The Isis Papers," by Frances Cress Welsing, has a back cover blurb that boasts that this book "is destined to change the course of history"--certainly a bold claim! The introduction notes that this book is a collection of essays that Welsing had written over an 18 year time span. Basically the book looks at the world and explains various symbols and sociological phenomena in the context of global white supremacy. Some of Welsing's observations about the symbol structure connected to white supremacy are genuinely thought-provoking. But overall the book seems like a strange, paranoid jumble of fake science and new age-y babble. Welsing seems particularly obsessed with a mythic origin story of white people, whom she describes as "albino mutants" with "defective skins" (p. 123). The book is driven by a view of whiteness as a "disease"--her argument can be summed up as saying that white people are evil because they're white. In addition to demonizing people on the basis of their skin color, Welsing's book is also sexist. She claims that "only male muscle mass has the potential for achieving liberation" (p. 83)--a claim I think is contradicted by the success of the suffragette movement! She is also hostile towards homosexuality, claiming it to be "a strategy for destroying Black people" (p. 91). Such a statement ignores the work of the many Black gay people who have been working for decades for human and civil rights. Welsing seems to see penis symbols everywhere as she tries to decode the world. At times the book really seems like a wacky conspiracy theory tract; Welsing even sees a sinister significance in the fact that "God" spelled backwards is "dog." Her language is sometimes vulgar, sometimes just plain weird. A typical claim: white people "have great difficulty in absorbing energy data from the universe at multiple frequencies deep energy levels" (p. 175). Basically, if you hate and fear white people and gay people, think that women are weak, and see signs of a global conspiracy everywhere you look, this book should buttress your beliefs quite effectively. But for a critical reader, "The Isis Papers" is a real mess.
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Summary: well...
Review: I find some of Welsing's theories a combination of half-baked truths, guess-work, and dangerous concoctions. But at the same time, I must say it was a fun read. Some of the stuff is true, but I wouldn't base racism (white supremacy) on the fact that whites have little or no melanin, as Welsing claims. I think racism is a product of thousands of years of culture and revolutions. I could spend the whole day talking. Oh well...everyone has an opinion.
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Summary: Makes For An Interesting Read
Review: I gave this book 5 stars, not that I feel everything in the book is true, but because she hit on some major points that all races need to realize. The truth is we are a very sick society and we are constantly feeding off one another's sick energy and it is time to stop or we will eventually destroy ourselves. Her discourse on symbolism and her use of intuition in deciphering the facts made me like this book even more. There is a lot of false information fed into our subconscious minds on a day to day basis whether on an individual, group and/or culture scale that yes!!! it does make so much sense that we carry around these subconsciously ill feelings that we pass to our children, our children's children and so on, without even knowing it! Thank you so much Frances for your intuitive insights, for the most part I do believe you hit the nail on the head. I don't believe any intelligent person should be offended by this book whether Black, White or Homosexual. Just cut through some of her words and try to reach out to her ideas and concepts. PEACE!!!!
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Summary: Don't Miss The Forest For The Trees.
Review: The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation is just that: Dr. Cress-Welsing's theory. Since her theory is unique and evolved, according to her, over many years, one has to read the book for an explanation of it. Briefly: The system of White Supremacy is global, pervassive and psychologically damaging, particularly to African-Americans. It is so pervasive that it's underlying imperative; White people's conscious & unconscious fear of genetic annihilation due to race-mixing, and their need to oppress people of color-- has become subconscious. This obsession w/ White genetic "purity" manifests itself in all aspects of society, especially in symbol form (*See Jung). SHE MAKES ENOUGH OF A CONVINCING POINT...ENOUGH OF A BREAK FROM SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS OF THE NATURE OF WHITE SUPREMACY...TO WARRANT A READ. In fact, everyone concerned about white supremacy, racism or prejudice should read this book. It isn't the end-all-and-be-all discussion of Black/White relations, but it is a damn good introduction to white supremacy/black inferiority. SHE MAKES HER POINT WELL, DESPITE SOME BASELESS STATEMENTS. Don't dismiss her deconstruction of Black/White relations because of the faults of the book. That would be simple on your part. DON'T SAY SHE DIDN'T BACK UP HER POINTS W/ RESEARCH...It is an ORIGINAL THEORY, backed by her own research/work with her patients. Those who dismiss it as "reverse racism" obviously missed the entire point of the book. BUY IT. READ IT.
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Summary: she's a crazy loon
Review: O.k. I'm kidding. She's a calculated officer in a long line of assailants against the white race's existence. Now would be a responsible time to mention I don't care one way or another about white genetic annihilation. A world without whites don't seem so bad to me. I'm not the only one. The underlying theme of America has always been the melting pot. This theme wasn't begun by the black slaves forced into the deal. So Ms. Cress can pretend she thinks whites fear that but she's only playing her part in the play. I wonder if she even knows. I wonder if any of the actors or puppets really know their true roles. Well, to the book. The book was cool and fun to read. Its very influential on young people or dumb people because their heads are empty caves and the book is presented authoritatively, and is usually one of the first or few exhibits of thought these foolytards have ever witnessed. But magicians aren't fooled by magic tricks and thinkers aren't fooled by thoughts. Children get to call themselves adults while the world pauses and whites erase; but to not be against it doesn't mean its not to be acknowledged. I'm embarrassed for her cheerleaders because they think she's anything more than a pawn on a chessboard to be moved at will by the invisible albino hand who created Jung and Freud, and her. She even takes a swipe at Sigmund Freud's demonic crown somewhere abouts in her book, which is too funny because he's one of the manipulators who created her entire fantasy world, saying she's up on him because his whiteness kept him blind to the sign of the times (Nazis) while she sees what's really happening. Ha! Either she don't see or she sees and don't say. I hope for aged wisdom's sake its the latter. But it pays to have a gimmick and now this gimmick is her bread and butter. I wonder how she'd interpret my last usage of the word "swipe." She's got rooster on the brain throughout her book and its embarrassing for her. To have a grandmother who looks at things the way she does has got to be upsetting around the holidays. You'd have to be crazy to see the world the way she sees it. Meaning everything round is a testical and everything long is a shlong. But the inmates are loud and proud. The fact of the matter is she's done her best alongside many others to promote someone's cause: ending white people as a race. She's got her spin to it but the end-goal's the same. When you, the narrator speak to your presumably mindless audience and tell the women they *really* want a black man and the men they *really* want a black woman and we all *really* want brown babies, you don't have to work on Madison Avenue to overstand what you're selling. But do your thing Dr. Cress. I just feel bad for the people on here who root for you. You're GUILTY of this ignorance. One of the biggest reasons they've let us get so stoopid is so quacks like you can be legitemized in a mainstream society. Eff you very much, doc.
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Summary: Truly weird
Review: "The Isis Papers," by Frances Cress Welsing, has a back cover blurb that boasts that this book "is destined to change the course of history"--certainly a bold claim! The introduction notes that this book is a collection of essays that Welsing had written over an 18 year time span. Basically the book looks at the world and explains various symbols and sociological phenomena in the context of global white supremacy. Some of Welsing's observations about the symbol structure connected to white supremacy are genuinely thought-provoking. But overall the book seems like a strange, paranoid jumble of fake science and new age-y babble. Welsing seems particularly obsessed with a mythic origin story of white people, whom she describes as "albino mutants" with "defective skins" (p. 123). The book is driven by a view of whiteness as a "disease"--her argument can be summed up as saying that white people are evil because they're white. In addition to demonizing people on the basis of their skin color, Welsing's book is also sexist. She claims that "only male muscle mass has the potential for achieving liberation" (p. 83)--a claim I think is contradicted by the success of the suffragette movement! She is also hostile towards homosexuality, claiming it to be "a strategy for destroying Black people" (p. 91). Such a statement ignores the work of the many Black gay people who have been working for decades for human and civil rights. Welsing seems to see penis symbols everywhere as she tries to decode the world. At times the book really seems like a wacky conspiracy theory tract; Welsing even sees a sinister significance in the fact that "God" spelled backwards is "dog." Her language is sometimes vulgar, sometimes just plain weird. A typical claim: white people "have great difficulty in absorbing energy data from the universe at multiple frequencies deep energy levels" (p. 175). Basically, if you hate and fear white people and gay people, think that women are weak, and see signs of a global conspiracy everywhere you look, this book should buttress your beliefs quite effectively. But for a critical reader, "The Isis Papers" is a real mess.
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Summary: Envison all Angles on this Sphere
Review: "The Isis Papers" does put a lot of what I have lived and still living in. But like one of the reviewers said, it is a theory(with many facts). Our caucasian brothers and sisters must realize that much of what Ms. Welsing wrote we live out everyday. Many of the negative reviews never wrote about the Reality of global domination by western imperialist capitialism and our United Corporate State of America at the center of power(i suspect because it is in their best interest to be in control and not controlled-this is the gist of freedom vs oppression). As we know, America got the jump on the rest of the world by having 400-450 years of free labor for men/women who they claimed to be close to beast-this is fact not theory. Slavery has evolved since the literal chain and whip. Subconscious control had to be implemented on a societal level to keep us as "happy" human products of commerce. "The Isis Papers" attemps to point out some of this abstract warfare of symbols. The destruction of the black male is up and running to full strength. Read and live more. Intermarriage between blacks and whites does make the child a brown baby. This has been a reason for the lynching of many black men yesterday and today. no fallacy. Man of all races have dominated other men. The Strong survive. We live in a Nation within a Nation where the power structure is controlled by the white male elite complex that controls Energy, Communication, the value of Money, means of Production, "Education", and the Military. So please do not play "crazy" and act as if everything is equal after only 35 years of "legal" equality in America. It is fact that imperialism and colonialism have raped the culture and resources of all "colored" that it has come in contact with. And yes, we should not continue to seek a hand out from our oppressors-white supremacy in its past and current form of today's america-They(those who oppress) have to come to grips with themselves through the grace of GOD. Life is hard. Nothing is Free. I ask for no apology only insight into yourself for true growth. Blacks are the "batteries" of this nation. We are the biggest consumers and workers of the service industry than any other group. Because we hold some offices, and have a lot of degrees in this cube of a nation, we still have no solidarity like Every other ethic group in america. All communities/cultures are based on well defined relationships of power on many levels. This need has been beaten out of us physically,mentally, and spiritally. If just to point out that white supremacy is in full effect shows that the book has some promise to it. No excuses though, I know the problem and live to correct it through educating and action with the next generation of our youth(of every culture). All races should live out that no one culture is superior to another. But I do not fool myself to believe that all is right and just in this day in time. Africans in America have taken a step toward true freedom. This country continues to forge and make us stronger. I work with children so they can understand the value of connection of love for one another and true power of ourselves in GOD manifested in Action. To the reviewer who stated that Welsing revised history on certain subjects as Joshua Ben Joseph/Jesus the Christ/Saviour the Messiah and the Israelites being black need to study more than pop culture. The yiddish and/or European Jews are of "recent" history. Look it up. They assimilated a lot of the customs of Hebrew they encountered after the dispersion of the Israelites from Israel in 7 A.D. This is not to infer "hate"(as the oppressive mind likes to call the oppressed when he/she points out a lie or injustice)but to bring truth to light. The symbols of real truth must be made available for all. The Isis Papers is a good attempt to unlock the keys of this oppressive world. To dismiss her completely is unjust. Please understand the world that created her and her ancestors in this land we call the land of freedom. Many are blind because of the privilige that this system has fostered a reality of false supremacy and/or equality. Wake up. Peace to all Mankind
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Summary: Relic from a confused era
Review: I met Dr. Welsing some years ago at a funeral and found her to be a nice person and pleasant conversationalist. Unfortunately, I also read this book. Hoo boy! Read the stuff regarding the analogies of balls used in sports, homosexuality, interracial dating, ad nauseum. , as well as the preposterous reasoning behind racism (any detailed study will tell you that it was due to greed, ignorance and economics -not the reasons listed here-although White nutcases like David Duke also subscribe to this theory). One reader notes the similarity to this and Chris Rock's comedy routines. In fact, that particular routine and Martin Lawrence's ridiculous tirades in the film "Boomerang" were spoofs loosely based on this book. In the 1990s, the horrible conditions and confusion in Black America led to a cottage industry of this kind of loony literature that was long on crude propaganda that attracted bitter pseudo-intellectuals but was short on sources and scholarship. (such as Sharazad Ali and Elijah Muhammad's old tirades). Hopefully, it seems that many of my fellow African-Americans have learned form the mistakes of that era and I rarely see this kind of stufff on the market anymore. Folks, whenever you see such books, whether it's white racist propaganda ot it's Black counterparts-check the sources by cross-refrencing before drawing conclusions.
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Summary: A Projective Test for the Reader
Review: One reviewer remarked that how you interpret this book tells as much about you as it does about the book itself, and I think that's very true, even though I have a very different perspective on the book itself. Welsing's book is part of a literature of opression and Afro-centric thoerizing that became very popular around a decade ago. These books are characterized by unsupported (and unsupportable) theorizing about biology and history that generally flies in the face of a few thousand years of scholarship. There are the theories about melanin being related to intelligence, ancient African technological societies, and ancient Greek and Egyptian societies being essentially African in nature. Typically Cleoparta figures heavily in this story, and is portrayed as a West African. (As her father was Ptolemy of Macedonia this is a bit suspect, unless we assume all of Europe was once African as well). It's very easy to build what one writer has called (in a different context) "just so stories" that justify these claims. Working backwards in time one can build up a hypothetical chain of events that seems, on the surface, to make perfect sense. And the attraction of these theories is easy enough to understand as well. If I were an intelligent young African American struggling with opression and racism, I'd be interested in a theory that both stroked my ego and gave me a simple explanation for my economic condition. Most ethnic groups have a similar mythology of superiority and opression. While I can sympathize with the position of the reader who identifies with Welsing's thesis, I still recognize the scientific and historical claims to be simpleminded and for the most part nonsensical, contrary to everything known about science and history. There are, as of 2001, 17,000 African American MDs in the United States, with numbers growing daily; you'd think if Welsings pronouncments are true they'd be generally accepted by these trained people. They're not. The same goes for African American historians, biologists, and other scholars. Henry Louis Gates, one of the most distinguished of scholars in the field of African American Studies, certainly doesn't subscribe to Welsing's views. Reading this book I was put in mind of a really brilliant writer on race and culture- Thomas Sowell. Sowell acknowledges racism and opression, and his autobiogrpahy certainly shows enough examples of the racism he found in his life. But his analyses of race and society are based on real history and economics, and not on fanciful tales written to appeal to the those unschooled in history and science.
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