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rances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color, Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture.
She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991). The book is a compilation of essays that she had written over 18 years.
The name “The Isis Papers” was inspired by an ancient Egyptian goddess. Isis was the sister/wife of the most significant god Osiris. .
According to Welsing, all the names of the gods were significant; however, also according to Welsing, Osiris means “lord of the perfect Black,” although there is no etymological validity to this assertion.
Welsing specifically chose the name Isis for her admiration of “truth and justice” that allowed for justice to be stronger than gold and silver.
She believed that injustice caused by racism will end when “non-white people worldwide recognize, analyze, understand and discuss openly the genocidal dynamic.” She also tackled issues such as drug use, murder, teen pregnancy, infant mortality, incarceration, and unemployment, in the black community. According to Welsing, the cause of these issues is her definition of racism (white supremacy). Black men are at the center of Welsing’s discussion because, according to her, they “have the greatest potential to cause white genetic annihilation.”
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Frances Cress Welsing
