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A Black History Month lesson (Week 1)

When my students at the University of Lagos (1966-70) asked me why Blacks in the U.S. have not done better.  I told them that Blacks in the U.S. are facing organized opposition (KKK, White Citizens Council, John Burch Society, Christian White Supremacist, the ghetto gestapo, etc., etc., etc.), that did not die out after the Civil War or Civil Rights.  They are more organized today via the internet and they are embedded in every organization and institution, especially the injustice system, whose lawyers become Congressmen and Senators that inact laws inimical to Blacks at every level.  We see segregation, discrimination and outright sabotoge of any and all programs designed to help Blacks.

I also told them that Blacks in the U.S. are suffering under group neurosis bordering on psychosis as a result of growing up in a society that is telling everyone how great it is to be White and how bad it is to be Black.  As a result most Black children grow up unconsciously wishing they were White and hating the fact that the are Black. (see Camille Cosby).

The following study has been conducted many times since the Supreme court outlawed school segregation.  The results have always been the same.  (See Post Traumatic Slave Syndrone)

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