Negropean vs Black Consciousness

We explore these two terms, why there is tension between these two groups in the Black Community and addressing actually raising true Black consciousness to progression.

1. Negropean Vs Black Negropean Vs Black
Consciousess: Consciousess:
The African MindThe African Mind
Dionne Williams
Psychologist

2. The NegropeanThe Negropean

3. The Black ConsciousnessThe Black Consciousness

4. Awoke vs AsleepAwoke vs Asleep
Consciousness/Awoke It is the awareness of ones
self and the world they live in.
Unconsciousness/Asleep It the lack of awareness of
ones self and the world they live in.
Just from the definitions we can see a relationship between
identity and awareness.
These two groups in the Black community have the most
influence in how others see the 釘lack identity The
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extremes of Black identity.

5. Why Is There This Division?Why Is There This Division?
The sole reason for Black Conscious-Negropean split is due domination.
Why are these two main groups fighting to uphold a certain and dominant
'Black identity'?
It could be explained with the Realistic Group Conflict Theory (RGCT)
(Muzafer Sherif, 1961) .
Limited resources could be status, jobs, housing, prestige or power.
But while they are fighting over these resources.... the dominant society that
these groups live in.
This divide and conquer type of domination.

6. Social Control & The MatrixSocial Control & The Matrix
The African mind is consequently divided into these two
extremes of Negropeans vs Black consciousness. The
divide and conqueror is a part of social control.
What is social control?
“1. The power of organisations, institutions and the laws of
society to influence and regulate behaviour. 2. The impact
of education, religion, media and other social forces on a
person or a groups' behaviour.”- Psychology Dictionary.
I call it the Matrix.

7. Welcome To The MatrixWelcome To The Matrix

8. Media Media
The western media is built on Eurocentric individualism.
What is Eurocentric individualism?
It means the motivation of controlling others to achieve self-interest. It
is through self interest the Eurocentric ideology of attaining
freedom/resources only by destroying/marginalising others.
Since freedom is the most valuable resource to the oppressed, it is a
lot like the Hunger Games movie. Different Black groups with different
perceptions of the world and hold different values are kept busy pitted
against each other for the prize of freedom, but never quite attaining
it.
Is Eurocentric Individualism also seen in Black media? Yes, we see
images of the so-called “Black culture”.

9. for examples of casting lighter skinned women for leading
romantic roles, darker skin men tend to be the villain,
praising black celebrities with European features or
partners, sensationalising “Black on black” violence, and “I
don't see colour, slavery is over!”
White media always allow the unconscious Black
spokespeople to speak on Black issues but never let a
Black conscious minded person who are fighting for the
Black issues to have a voice, unless it is to discredit them.
Also, the matrix demoralises our racial and cultural identity
which naturally makes us hate ourselves as a racial group,
demobilise us from unity and organising infrastructures.

10. Are you unplugged?Are you unplugged?

11. How is consciousness achieved?How is consciousness achieved?
It is through struggling.
Kwame Ture, Black Movement Activist, said “The only route to
consciousness is through struggle.
Audience, what are the struggles we are facing today?
Whatever the struggle is, it brings self realisation (Know thy self). It
actually doesn't matter what the struggle is to achieve consciousness.
It is how you cope and interact with the struggle. If you agree that is
doesn't matter what the struggle is, can you see why the Negropean v
Black Consciousness division becomes a pointless conflict?

13. The Rise of ConsciousnessThe Rise of Consciousness
Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology said, “There is no
coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything,
no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.”
Consciousness rises more and more as our conditions get
worse and shrouded in darkness. People start to ask where is
the discomfort coming from, how do we stop the pain and what
must I do to make sure the pain never comes back. This is the
expansion of the true consciousness.

14. And once the true consciousness is raised then the African mind
can collectively organise to make movements for mental
freedom rather than been split into two.
The more people's mind become truly conscious, the more likely
of mass organisation towards knowing reality from unreality,
collective action to bring solutions to our problems, become
“WE” centred than “ME” centred, reject social controls that is
harming our psychological well-being, and have
selflessness that can lead us to reaching the promised land by
rowing in the same direction because we are in the same boatwe are in the same boat
despite class, gender, ethnicities, immigration status, colour
shade, and mixtures with the Black community.

15. Improving the African MindImproving the African Mind
The unconscious that
becomes conscious stops
reacting to the struggle and
stays one step ahead of it
because he or she now is
unplugged from the system
and know why they live in
poor conditions and can do
something about it
together. If we can improve
our conditions we can
improve the African Mind.

16. Meanwhile, the unconscious minds, do not see the matrix
system. They do not see our poor condition controlled by
Eurocentric dominating system.
The unconscious minds see our poverty, prevalent mental
illness rates, criminality of a few, high unemployment rate as
down to the the individual's character such as being
unambitious or having a biological short coming.

The unconscious minds start to feel ashamed of being identified
with the “others” that have inherent deficiencies and they deny
their African Mind. And once they are indoctrinated, they cannot
change the system because they just blame individuals that look
like them. They have no room to see the inequalities in the
system that is linked to the poor conditions in the first place.

17. Does Racism Cause Deficiencies in the Does Racism Cause Deficiencies in the
African Mind or Is Racism a Blame game?African Mind or Is Racism a Blame game?
Apu Chakrabort & Kwame McKenzie (2002) did a review looking at 'does
racial discrimination cause mental illness?' for The British Journal of
Psychiatry. This is what they found:
High prevalence rates of depression in both South Asian and
African―Caribbean populations
High incidence and prevalence rates of psychosis in
African―Caribbean groups
These high rates have not been reported in the countries of origin of
these ethnic groups, which led their research to investigate possible
causes within the UK
Biological risk factors and the rates of psychosis in
African―Caribbean people has not been demonstrated
One social risk factor frequently identified by service users and
increasingly by academics is racism

18. An individual's perception of society as racist and the
experience of everyday minor acts of discrimination are
thought to constitute a chronic stressor.
Life events in African and African―Caribbean patients with
psychosis are as likely to suffer life events as Whites but
more likely to attribute them to racism.
Those who had experienced verbal abuse were 3 times more
likely to be suffering from depression or psychosis.
Those who had experienced a racist attack were nearly 3
times more likely to suffer from depression and 5 times
more likely to suffer from psychosis.
Those who said their employers were racist were 1.6 times
more likely to suffer from a psychosis.
2-fold increase in the incidence of psychosis in people from
ethnic minority groups in London wards with a low
percentage of ethnic minority inhabitants compared with
those living in areas with high ethnic minority population
densities.

19. Fernando (1991) has argued that since European psychiatry
developed when racist doctrines were rife in Western culture,
the ideology of racism became incorporated into it as a
discipline. He concludes that the emphasis on an
individualised pathology, with insufficient attention paid to
social pressures such as race and culture, renders
psychiatry a racist institution.
In the UK, widespread discriminatory social policy may
influence the rates of mental illnesses, their presentation
and outcome.
Institutional discrimination is also reflected in the lack of
research for an effective response to these societal
influences which, in turn, perpetuates social disparity.
Community groups in the UK claim that much has been
published about increased rates of illness, but there have
been few interventions.

20. “Mental health research into the effects of racial discrimination runs
the risk of medicalising appropriate social struggle and
distress.
Focusing on those discriminated against in this way may only serve
to maintain the institution's power over the victimised group,
while running the risk of stereotyping the group's identity as
nothing more than a response to racism. It has been argued that
there should be a closer examination of those bodies that
discriminate, rather than their victims.”

21. The Battle For Your Mind The Battle For Your Mind
"If you are bitten by a snake you fear seeing a "If you are bitten by a snake you fear seeing a
rope at night."- Kenyan proverb rope at night."- Kenyan proverb

22. We need to find ways to unlearn a lot of conditioning done to
us, we need to define our own identity, and we need each
other to function in our right African Mind/consciousness.
Without a sense of identity, there cannot be a real struggle;
without struggle there cannot be real consciousness; Without
consciousness, there cannot be real progress. And without
real progress, there cannot be liberation for all.
Maybe cooperation is simply working together to have an
abundance of resources to not be in conflict so we can we can
unplug from the matrixunplug from the matrix, and struggle to overcome any
systems that is oppressing our African Mind and achieve
true consciousness where all can be mentally free and able
to organise and mobilise for equality.

23. References
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers
Cave Experiment. Muzafer Sherif, O. J. Harvey, B.
Jack White, William R. Hood, and Carolyn W. Sherif
Norman: University of Oklahoma Book Exchange,
1961. Reprint edition, Wesleyan University Press,
1988.
Apu Chakrabort, & Kwame McKenzie (2002). Does
racial discrimination cause mental illness? The British
Journal of Psychiatry, 180 (6), 75-477.

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