Hi, @andrewschulz:

Thanks for the interesting, funny work that you and @cthagod are doing on @BrilliantIdiots.

I'm writing about a video you posted, nearly a month ago. I've just seen it, which is why this response is so late.

It was about @NickCannon.

In that video, you mentioned and critiqued the work of the late Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing, who died in early 2016. (It appears that @NickCannon may have referenced her in the statement for which he was fired by CBS/Viacom.)

Dr. Welsing was a friend and mentor of mine.

Because she meant a lot to me, I appreciated you mentioning her, and her book, *The Isis Papers*, below.

However, it's fairly clear that, while @NickCannon does not appear to be really clear on her ideas, you don't seem to be either, based on the way that you explained them.

It would have been good, had you reached out to someone to talk about, as you, yourself, observed, "the racist statements," not just "the anti-Semitic ones"; e.g., as you/ @cthagod spoke to @mrchrismorrow, your producer, to explain Jewish sensitivity to anti-Semitic dog whistles.

Maybe I can do the same, now:

The ideas in Welsing's work, to which you alluded, come from the opening chapter of *Isis Papers*; a piece which originally appeared as a separate pamphlet.

The pamphlet, and the chapter, are both titled, "The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation."

In fact, as you can see in the photo, the subtitle of the document is, "And Racism (White Supremacy)."

This is the first "key" notion of Dr. Welsing's work: The idea, as the subtitle affirms, that white supremacy is not just related to racism, but that they are *the same thing*.

As Neely Fuller Jr.—a man who mentored Dr. Welsing, then, subsequently, others, including me—would put it, racism has a sole functional form: White supremacy. IOW, there is no other kind.

None of this, though, really has anything to do w/ "melanin." However, the next part does.

Many people who have a passing familiarity with Welsing, her concepts, or name, often mistakenly assert that her ideas are about white people being "inherently evil," as @cthagod seemed to allude, in the video.

This is not true.

Some think that Welsing's ideas are based in a concept of Black people being "superior" because they possess more melanin, the pigment whose presence darkens skin. You seem to summarize some version of this in your own piece, staring at 1:25 in the video:

As @IAmKRSOne would say, all of this is incorrect.

Welsing's color-confrontation idea can be neatly summarized as follows:

Racism, in the form of white supremacy, is an "agglomeration"; i.e., it is a cluster of "defense mechanisms" that, over time, white people have assembled.

White people have done this to assure—and, in my opinion, if Welsing had done no more than come up with the following three words, her legend would have been secure—**white genetic survival**.

By this term, Welsing was pointing to the overlap of a few related ideas:

a) The majority of people in the world are non-white, *overwhelmingly*.

b) White people are **the planetary minority**.

c) Were sexual access to all people unrestrained, and access to the world's goods also unrestrained, white people would be phenotypically "overrun."

By this, c), I mean that, since offspring bet. white and non-white people are non-white—darker phenotypes are dominant in this way, across living species—free sexual access between white and non-white people, over time, could ultimately lead to the disappearance of white people.

One way, @andrewschulz, to think about this, analogicaly, is through the image of pouring chocolate into a glass of milk. As you can see in these two photos, the milk starts out white. However, by the time a certain amount of chocolate has been poured into it, it no longer is.

So, Welsing was saying that a similar thing could happen if:

1) Non-white people have free sexual access to white ones

and

2) Non-white people are allowed to develop in a way that puts them on par with white people.

Said another way, with enough of 2), you get more of 1).

So, in summary, "The Cress Theory," or the Cress Hypothesis, is based on the idea that a sufficiently developed, non-white, world populace would form a de facto *competitive bloc* that could overpower white people—because it already outnumbers them—both economically and sexually.

Racism, then, is the entire suite of behaviors in which white people, collectively and individually, have engaged in order to make that unlikely.

That's the Cress Theory, in a nutshell.

This is not "pseudoscience," @andrewschulz, as you so derisively stated on your show.

This is a hypothesis, from a psychiatrist, regarding human social science; a hypothesis of some power. For example, it accounts for, what @cthagod referred to as, the "massive racial violence" of which Black people have been the recipients, not just in this country, but globally.

This isn't "nonsense shit," as you crudely put it. Welsing's model contextualizes why, in every place on Earth, non-white male sexual access to white females has been so highly, stridently regulated; typically, on pain of, again, the "massive racial violence" @cthagod mentioned.

It suggests a basis, not only for the rape of Africa, over the past half-millennium, but also why the most minerally-rich continent, w/ every substance a modern, technological culture needs, is often still war-torn, and dependent, to such a large extent, on white largesse.

Public Enemy's 1990 album, *Fear of a Black Planet*, is titled—with @MrChuckD's earthy lyrical economy—after Dr. Welsing's concepts. Again, we consider her a mentor.

She even appears on the album: Her melodic vocal tones open the track, "Meet the G That Killed Me."

Though this is only a summary @andrewschulz, I trust that it helps give you a better idea of Dr. Welsing's work and influence, and a sense of her powerful thinking.

Thank you for your time.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or complaints.