DO WHITE SUPREMACISTS ENVY OUR MELANIN?

Frances Cress Welsing (1935-2016) was an American psychiatrist who held the controversial view that White supremacy is the expression of an inferiority complex. In particular, she argued that Whites fear ‘genetic annihilation’ by Blacks, claiming that their low levels of melanin are a form of albinism that’s genetically recessive.

Her work has been criticised as pseudoscientific and as itself supremacist. But in this clip, she clarifies that she never claimed Whites are inferior - only that they ‘feel’ inferior, for the reasons given. She also starts off with an account of how her views got her fired from Howard University.

Have a listen and let us know what you think of her explanation of White supremacy as a kind of melanin envy.