Negro Negrophobia: Psychoneurotic obstacles to Black autonomy (Or Why I just love Michael Jackson) (1)

By Chinweizu, published in BusinessDay, June 4, 2009 Edition.

Negrophobia, the fear and dislike of blacks, is a great disease. It has killed more blacks 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 blacks who died through slavery were killed by negrophobia. The blacks who died all over the globe from white colonial aggression were killed by negrophobia. The blacks 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 blacks dying from the structures and policies of neocolonialism are dying from negrophobia. The blacks killed by AIDS, a disease manufactured by White Power in the biological warfare labs of the USA and deliberately introduced into central Africa and Haiti to kill off blacks, 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 characterized 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:
Negro negrophobia is a most absurd disease. Can you imagine some black 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 blacks 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 blacks 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 1023 black ancestors in that generation, and all the millions before and since.
Negro negrophobia makes African-Americans, and now black South Africans too, believe that integrating white neighborhoods is social advancement. It makes blacks 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 blacks defer to whites. It makes bright black boys, the thinkers of the race, obey the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO 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 blacks accept leaders of thought and of action that are chosen for them by whites. It makes blacks revere any third class mind, any tin pot potentate, that whites 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 does not feel comfortable in a blacks-only group. Blacks-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 blacks 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, blacks 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 whites. 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 blacks 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.
Negro-Negrophobia in pan-Africanism
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, has subverted 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 harbored by that term; he called it the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a name which unequivocally implies a redemption movement of blacks, by blacks, for blacks.
To call yourself a leader of blacks, 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 blacks, one leading them out of the prison cell of white power, and yet insist on bringing whites into every organization for blacks - isn't that folly of the first order? Those blacks 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?

@Ajanlekoko
Thanks for posting Chinweizu's write-up. I have never read this piece before. It's very insightful and thought provoking indeed. I love his style of writing. It's a shame that his thoughts/writings will not appeal to most Nigerians nor Africans. We are inherently cowardly or like conquered people. We are afraid to think the unthinkable or contemplate the unthinkable. We hold everything around us as sacred therefore unchallengeable. Our condition is rather sad. Thank you for sharing the piece.

A great piece I must say and a herculian task it is. Where shall start from when our oppressors have mastered the art of subjugation. Is it the economic plundering of our lands or the pilfering of our bright minds through awards and accolades that will warrant them to abandon Africa? The introduction of deadly diseases which are hitherto alien to our people and lands plus the pitching of our people against us through devilish politicking has remain one of their greatest weapon. Even the Great Achebe couldn't resist the temptation of staying in their land after he battled them in the literary world. It is obvious to visionary negroes that our race is one that is an endangered specie. From the total eclipsing of North Africa and the sublimation of East Africa by the Arabs down to the annexation of Southern Africa by the Europeans. West African on the surface appears untouched but on critical examination, one would discover that it has been placed on lockdown by atleast 50% by no other country than France. With over 50% of West African countries being Francophone and in reality vassal state of France, one can tell that West Africa is in a mess. Nigeria which boasts one of the brightest minds in the world from history to date suffers from one of the deadliest venoms of the enemy known as 'divide and conquer'. Now, the land mines set by those 'patients of negrophobia' has approached detonation point while we, the target are wallowing in foolishness being blinded by parochial sentiments watch helplessly as their decendants- well known vultures drapped in the dress of the colourful butterflies hover above us.
It is quite heart-wrenting seeing a problem, knowing a solution but being unable to solve it as a tree does not make a forest. At this juncture I say; only God can save the black race.

I love Chinweizu

Hopefully, cap28, pickabeau1 and et al can read the excerpt below - and see the bigger picture of what I was alluding to a few weeks about how segregation was more beneficial in terms to black intellectual curiosity than integration:

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.

shymexx: Hopefully, cap28, pickabeau1 and et al can read the excerpt below - and see the bigger picture of what I was alluding to a few weeks about how segregation was more beneficial in terms to black intellectual curiosity than integration:

I get the sentiments but it will never be a positive thing

Segregating a section of the population to below human status cannot be a positive thing

This game is not new... its about closeness to the power epicenter

Look at the court of Rome, the city of Rome

The issue now is skin color