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Black Man’s Self-Hatred is White Man’s Self-Defense

We talk a lot as a people about self-hatred. Self-hatred is a personality configuration. It is an orientation toward the world and toward oneself.

Self-hatred then, is the white man’s GREATEST protection against being totally destroyed by the black man. To a great extent, self-hatred is the white man’s GREATEST self-defense mechanism. How can we say that? Well, one of the function of personality is to direct energy; to channel energy and aggression and wishes and impulses in particular directions.

Those things that we hate, when we are angry or hostile, we aggress against them, don’t we? We oppose them, we attack them, we destroy them. Then we have a problem as Black people, don’t we?

We attack the things we hate. We attack the things in which we hold hostility and aggression towards, when we are overly frustrated and when we are overly angry. Don’t we? Then, what happens if that thing we hate, is ourselves? It means then, ladies and gentlemen, when we become frustrated and when we become angry as a people, when we are overwrought by feelings of hostility, and our self-hating personality seeks to channel that hostility, and channel that aggression; the energy is going to channel that aggression right back on the self. Because that’s the thing it hates most.

So consequently, black anger and black hostility then becomes a channel for black self-destruction. For black self-annihilation. For black self-harm. For black self-defeat. For black-self hatred. The object of our hostile, and aggressive feelings becomes ourselves. And you can see then how the white man is protected by that personality structure. While he stokes our anger, while he stokes our hostility, while he stokes our frustration; when we get mad and want to strike out, and when we decide to strike out and aggress, we strike out and aggress against the self. And by doing so, the white man is left untouched and unscathed. Therefore, our self-hatred personality becomes his principle means of defending himself and maintaining himself. And, ultimately maintaining his POWER over us.

-The Great The Honorable Nana Amos N. Wilson