The European American community’s drive to disguise and conceal their culpability and guilt in the destruction and oppression of Africans through their collective-societal institutional arms requires American society (both Whites and it’s Black victims as well) to operate in a kind of “collective psychosis.” Everyone appears to operate in a blatant denial of the true history of Africans in America and the continuing contemporary legacy of that history, which allows Whites to feel secure and positive about themselves, and to project themselves to the world as the apex/standard of civility and high culture (with the implied beneficial psychological, economic, political, spiritual, etc., outcomes for everyone). Thus, maintenance of the psychological comfort level of European supremacy in American society requires (or demands, in fact) this kind of collective denial or “psychotic” behavior and functioning among Africans in virtually every aspect of American life. Consequently, the Black race in America is literally forced to, and is reinforced (rewarded/applauded, etc.) for functioning in a state of collective/mass psychosis. Within this context, Africans in America are reinforced for suppressing and/or denying their true racial-cultural identity and history (i.e., their integrity as human beings), for remaining ignorant of their true history and culture in the world, and for internalizing as much as possible of a Eurocentric consciousness. This is, in my view, the ultimate statement of psychological-cultural oppression which is illustrated by the African psychological predicament in America and throughout the world. Kobi K.K. Kambon
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:12:23 +0000
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