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| Dr. Cobbs co-wrote Black Rage |
And summer has just begun.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has reported that some of the individuals involved may have done so in retaliation.
Black Rage refers to a purported psychological phenomena and innovative defense mechanism usually aimed at whites, however, blacks who hate themselves and others can participate in Black Rage.
Black Rage was first proposed by psychologists William Henry Grier and Price Mashaw Cobbs in their 1968 seminal book, Black Rage. The authors argue that black people living in a racist, white supremacist society are psychologically damaged by the effects of racist oppression, so much so that they act abnormally in certain situations.
In the book, Grier and Cobbs said blacks are in a tight snare. "Aggression leaps from wounds inflicted and ambitions spiked," they say. "It grows out of oppression and capricious cruelty...turning from their tormentors, they are filled with rage."
Others may consider Black Rage just acting out in a deadly fashion for no reason or out of a frustrated sense of powerlessness. Our prisons are filled with the results of black rage!
What do you think???
©2012 Photo (2002) and article by Tomi Johnson. All rights reserved.
We can all debate the reasons for the quote, unquote action of few people and call it "Black Rage" for taking others life's over something that will in the end mean nothing! Well it will, another one or two Black males doing time in state prison, because of someone feeling dissed. Well I'm feeling dissed that the parents of these children felt that angry to take another of their classmate, playground friends lives. If we don't begin to love & respect ourselves, we truly can't expect others too. Its 2012 and we've come long way to freedoms and the rights be anything we can dream of, but why would becoming an inmate be on the short list? I pray for those who lost their lives, and those who took them. Because both are major losses to us as people, and we need to truly have conversations with our youth, not let them set the rules as we standby. These are our children, all of them regardless if you brought them into the world or not. Please take moment and speak to our youth, whereever you find yourself daily. Let's avoid future senseless deaths.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Calhoun says: Hey Tomi, I think Reverend Kevin Crosby of St. Stephens in Louisville said it best....it's time we change the narrative from civil rights to civil responsibility...I know it could sound a little cold hearted, but we at some point are going to have to take control of our own lives.
ReplyDeleteI FEEL MUCH THE SAME AS THE OTHER RESPONDENTS. IT IS TIME WE BEGIN TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS, AND EVEN MORE SO, THE ACTIONS OF OUR CHILDREN. I LIVE IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AMBIVALENT TO THE TRAGEDIES GOING ON AROUND THEM (US) AND HAVE NO DESIRE TO BETTER THEMSELVES, OR THEIR CHILDREN. IT SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT "SELF". HOW CAN WE EXPECT ANY BETTER WHEN WE VIEW THE AWARDS PROGRAMS AND SEE YOUNG BLACKS WITH GOLD CROSSES AROUND THEIR NECKS, BEING IDOLIZED AND PRAISED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY. THEN THEY GO OUT AND MAKE AND SELL RECORDS DEMEANING THE POLICE, WOMEN, AND THEMSELVES. I WAS TOTALLY APALLED TO BE A CHAPERONE AT A DANCE SOME TIME BACK AND HEAR THE WORDS OF THE MUSIC THAT WAS BEING PLAYED AND THE TYPES OF DANCES THE YOUTH WERE DOING. NO RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES OR OTHERS. WHEN I INTERVENED AND STOPPED THE MUSIC AND DANCES I WAS SEEN AS "LAME AND OUT OF TOUCH".WE NEED PRAYER AND SOME STRONG BLACK MEN AND WOMEN WHO WILL STAND UP AND TELL OUR YOUTH, AND THEIR PARENTS, THAT WE MUST MAKE A CHANGE, OR OUR RACE IS DOOMED. I SEE VERY FEW OF OUR YOUTH IN CHURCH. WHAT HAPPENED TO "EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE IS GOING TO CHURCH WITH ME".
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