For Women's History Month, we will featured a series of six episodes from this For the People interview with Dr. Wesling.
This post includes Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 1 - August 8, 1989
In an interview with host Listervelt Middleton, Washington, D.C., psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing used a chessboard as a visual aid to illustrate her theories on white supremacy. With over two decades of research into white supremacist behavior, Welsing analyzed the economic, political, and cultural conditions that have shaped racism worldwide and explored how these structures were historically introduced and maintained.
Central to her work is The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and Racism, which states that racism—specifically white supremacy—is a deliberate and subconscious strategy designed to ensure white genetic survival and prevent white genetic annihilation. According to Welsing, this underlying fear of genetic extinction drives many of the social, political, and economic dynamics observed in society. She argued that this fear fuels the policies, attitudes, and behaviors that sustain racial hierarchies, influencing global interactions and power structures.
Part 2 - August 15, 1989
Listervelt Middleton continues his conversation with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing with her responses to “What we should be telling our black children about white supremacy?”
White supremacy is a system of behavior evolved by a small minority of people on the planet who are genetic recessive to the majority. Their behaviors, often unjust, oppress and hold non-white people down for the purpose of white genetic survival.
Side Notes
- Frances Luella Cress Welsing (March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the Black supremacist melanin theory and “The Isis Papers: The Key to the Colors”
- This program was sponsored by a Grant from the Nubian Study Group of Washington, D.C.