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Pag« 8 Portland Obaarvar Thursday. August 2.1979
Sexual exploitation of Black men Heat danger
for elderly
by white women
Older adults should make it a
by Don Fuller
Last weeks' article explained the
theory Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, a
Black psychologist, has developed,
to provide a basis o f understanding
Black m ental illness specifically
caused by White Supremacy policies,
practices and institutions. This week:
"Applying the Theory. ”
PART II
Helan Thom as Gregg. Dae Fuller Fitzgerald. Delores C aldw ell Leg-
groan. and Jessie Flowers M orris a t St. Philips M ission som etim e in
the 30s.
St. Philip looking for history
by Kathryn H. Bogle
Help! A church is looking for its
past!
St. Philips Episcopal Church is
sure the church has a bright future,
but the members want to know and
to treasure its past as well.
Do you have any pictures o f mem
bers o f St. Philips congregation in its
early days? How early?
Well, here is one found among the
momentos belonging to Mrs. Phil
Reynolds, now confined to a nursing
home. Mrs. Reynolds was active in
the community, and in the life o f the
church, when these girls paused after
serving in the choir on a sunny Easter
morning.
Pictured are Helen Mae (Thomas)
Gregg, Dee (Fuller) Fitzgerald, De-
lores Caldwell Leggroan and Jessie
Flowers Morris. The year had to be
in the latter 30’ s as the sign in the
background reads: “ St. P h ilip ’ s
Mission.”
Mrs. Helen Rawlins w ill be de
lighted if other pictures such as this
one are passed along to her, as she is
gathering pictures and stories about
the c h o ir— history o f St. P hilips
especially.
You will find Mrs. Rawlins at her
place in the choir nearly every Sun
day. Bring anything you find o f this
nature to the attention o f anyone in
the church. Everyone is searching in
scrapbooks, in grandmas attic (or
basement), to help locate all the ten
der memories o f the past to help in
St. Philip’s History Project! Can you
help?
TOBY b BARB W A LD O W S K I
Waldowski's give concert
W a ldo w ski C oncert M in istrie s
presents gospel in song at Hughes
Memorial United Methodist Church
Sunday, August 5th, at 11:00 a.m.
Toby and Barb W aldowski are
both originally from eastern South
Dakota. They majored in music and
graduated from South Dakota State
University. In 1976, they were in
vited to appear as soloists on the
television ministry “ Hour o f Power”
and in 1977 they began an extensive
concert touring program throughout
the United States.
Since then they have visited 46
states and given some 300 concerts.
They have produced tw o record
albums and have completed studio
work for their third album.
Reverend Austin V. Ray, the choir
o f Hughes M em orial M ethodist
Church and the entire congregation
extend a hearty welcome to
everyone.
Dr. Welsing would have us apply a
kind o f reality therapy once her con
clusions and understandings o f Black
reality are accepted. Such an applica
tion would allow us to understand
why Black people exploit other Black
people (they are targeting on the least
powerful, or least capable o f retalia
tion) and yet, gain nothing in wealth,
power, or position. (“ Zero minus
zero, times zero, divided by zero,
plus zero equals.. .zero” ). It also ex
plains to Dr. Welsing why Black
people (men in this case) who are op
pressed into self-hatred (insanity),
should be treated with sympathy in
stead o f being attacked by other op
pressed Black people (Black women).
Such attacks on Black victims are
easier than attacking white women,
white people or White Supremacy.
Moreover, we, as a people have no
power to m eaningfully reward or
constructively punish the behavior o f
anyone.
A result o f this crip p lin g self-
hatred (a mental illness which we
have been conditioned to accept as
sane by w hite educational in
stitutions) is the mistaken gratitude
o f Blacks when the pain o f direct op
pression is relieved in any way, that
is, to a slave who is being beaten
daily by one slave owner and petted
by another, the petting is preferable
to the beating. The humiliation is the
same and yet the gratitude may be
taken for “ love” by the guilt-ridden
oppressor and fearful slave, but the
political positions have not changed,
only the type o f e xp lo ita tio n o f
human "resources.” Such a slave
w ill gladly perform the most degrad
ing, dehumanizing acts o f genocide
th rough intercourse and delude
h im /h e r self in to accepting any
rationale as a psychological defense
fo r the reality that slaves (or ex
slaves) have no power to change the
relationship. This individual “ kind
ness” o f an oppressor, Dr. Welsing
explains, is an exploitation under
systematic White Supremacy just like
stolen labor in slavery. Both are
exercises o f the privileges W hite
Supremacy institutions create “ for
whites only” and take full advantage
o f our illness and powerlessness un
der that system, leaving W hite
Supremacy intact. (The “ lib e ra l’ ’
wants to be a beloved master, but
master nevertheless). The true white
“ revolutionary" would stop the ex
ploitation and attack the institutions
o f W hite Supremacy and power,
w ith o u t the enjoym ent o f ex
ploitation privileges at night.
For those Black folks who can
only see themselves in the role o f
male or female commonly held by
white America, it is only possible to
see Black man as "chasing” white
women. The reality, however, accord
ing to Dr. Welsing’ s theory is that
Black men (powerless) cannot chase
white women (p o w e rfu l), unless
white women make it very clear that
they want to be chased. W hite
women are, therefore, "ch a sin g ”
Black men (or Black men are getting
screwed by white women). “ Screw
ing can now be seen as a word mean
in g ... to exercise power over
someone.
A
heavy
p o litic a l
statement.
This phenomenon o f the “ chase”
is part o f a new power relationship
being established by white women
for two reasons according to Dr.
Welsing:
Recognition and envy by white
women, o f the genetic power and
physical beauty o f Black people;
Recognition by white women that
pursuit o f Black men constitutes a
direct attack on the myths and
rationale underlying w hite male
repression o f them in this exercise o f
all economic and political power they
have also envied.
It is important to note, however,
that in no case is the objective o f the
relationship to politically or econo
mically empower Black people, nor
is it even possible; the “ relationship”
can be ended w ith a scream o f
"ra p e ” by the white woman; the
relationship is usually entered into by
the misfits, rejects, and powerless
among w hite society who have
the least to lose, and most to gain in
self-esteem; and the “ relationship”
reinforces and takes fu ll advantage
o f the Black mental illness o f self-
hatred, while it challenges white male
dom inance fo r econom ic and
political power over Black folks!
Meanwhile, the oppression o f Black
people is deepened by Black
m ale/fem ale antagonism s and
divisions, and the destruction o f
familial ties created by miscegena
tion.
The white woman who sexually
exploits oppressed Black men under
W hite Supremacy is no less the
enemy o f Black unit, liberation, and
pride than the w hite male who
sexually exploits oppressed Black
women, and for that reason white
power, white supremacy, white men
and white women must be the target
o f a sustained attack, not the Black
victims o f white oppression. With
awareness, according to Dr. Welsing,
comes the responsibility for acting
and its dangers, or not acting with its
self-delusions and a w fu l fear o f
dying, when sanity unmasks our
reality. Then we know what we must
do and how, says D r. W elsing,
w ith o u t any grand strategy o r
chestrated by an elite few.
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mer days.
A ccording to V ic k i Schinall,
Oregon State University Extension
gerontology specialist, the elderly are
less tolerant o f heat than are younger
adults and are particularly suscep
tible to heat reactions, especially
during heat waves.
"H eat stroke is a major concern,”
says Mrs. Schmall. “ Death from
heat stroke rises sharply for those 60
or older.”
Studies suggest a major reason for
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Heat stroke is an immediate life
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