What are the Shadows of so called black folks?

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

Shadow, a term attributed to Carl G. Jung, the noted Swiss Psychoanalyst, that is defined as those parts of the human personality that one finds unacceptable, unwanted, unloved and that one may cast off, deny, repress and project onto others. It is a symmetrical, autonomous complex that represents the base of the iceberg of what is known as the human psyche. 

 

An example of shadow would be a person who shows up as a bully or tyrant when under the surface, deeply hidden in the subconscious, they have thoughts and feelings of cowardice and inferiority as a result they often show up on the surface as the opposite. There is an old saying that goes, "Push a tyrant and you will find a weakling, corner a weakling and you will find a tyrant."

 

Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth, talks about how the ego gets formed as a societal requirement based on what behaviors are acceptable and those that are not, but the catch is society needs certain behaviors and people to enact them to make examples of and thus set its rules and standards of what is and what is not acceptable. To achieve that society must have individuals or groups to assign these roles to. Often times those individuals and groups are not aware that they have been co-opted to play these roles, they assume that this is just how things are. 

 

Being born into a family and a society is like walking onto a movie set and being given your lines, but you are not privy to the intent of the script nor did you have anything to do with its creation. In other words you start living someone else's story even though you are not aware of it. That is an example of how the collective shadow works. You had a sense of your authentic self, but society via your family and  society's other institutions and devices, convinced you while you were still vulnerable and defenseless that certain behaviors, curiosities, desires, and actions were unacceptable and as a result you, the individual, placed those thoughts, desires, curiosities and actions in shadow by repressing them, denying them, projecting them onto others and they become unwanted, unacknowledged and ultimately unloved! 

 

Now here comes the good part, as time slowly goes by you forget that you had them and then the magic happens, you forget that you forgot!

 

 I read years ago in a book entitled The Shadow of America; Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation by Jeremiah Abrams, an account of how Jungian analysis viewed what had happened with the so called races in this country. It said simply that, "White people have projected most of their negative shadows onto black people and black people don't have the collective power to repel those projections. In turn they, black people, find themselves shadow sponges for the dominant race." They went on to say how as a result many of the people impacted by those projections will find themselves acting out and acting in those repressed desires and actions without having benefit of knowing how they were set up or even knowing they were enacting someone else's wants and needs.  

In other words the hidden, unacceptable, unloved parts of a larger culture subconsciously projects them onto you and you then live out those things without ever being aware that you do and where it originated. Instead your only awareness is what they want you to be aware of and that is they don't like youor so it would appear and you call that racism, when in fact they couldn't exist without somewhere to park their hidden and repressed "stuff" and that somewhere is you!

To your horror or joy, depending on your vantage point and how well you are prepared to handle this, you may find that you have kept this whole thing called race and racism afloat and alive when all the time all you had to do was unburden your load and refuse to carry what is not and never has been your issues.  

 

You see race and racism both are their problem and only they can solve them. You, on the other hand, have helped keep the lies of race and racism alive simply by re-energizing it for them. That is what I think makes it both reprehensible and seductive. As Dr. Black has said to me over and over, 'Negroes sanction their own oppression and never consider how." My dear gentle readers even Atlas Shrugged. You grok?

 

What's the major tool to make this happen?  LANGUAGE!

More to come and what do you think?

[Clifford Black]

I think that u should continue with this dialog and maybe a few interested parties will go and try to find out what you may be talking about and then maybe we can put this subway to rail so that some of us can get to where some of us might be going.

Peace be still LORD!!!

(B).

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

Could we be experiments in vampirism and not even be aware of it? Think about those implications. It is indeed a nauseating thought.

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

What I am really focusing on is the psychological creation of a new species, the Negro. I mean that literally.  To allow someone to live through you and never having the courage to face it, own it, claim it, understand it and change it is a really pathetic situation. It cannot happen in mass, freedom always is an individual attainment.

That is what Malcolm was sending us through his deeper messages, but if your ears have been trained to not hear, your eyes infected with scotoma as it relates to truth and your heart injected with cowardice, what chance can you have to truly come alive?

[Clifford Black]

If what you are implying is correct then the act of becoming is impossible and for people to waste time at a unification rally is utterly rediculous.

(B)

[Clifford Black]

See if this helps---go to forum and click on education----look for "see pdf" this can give source data.

B

[Adisa]

I recently watched a video of an interview of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, who was speaking of an incident which occurred in college and affected him or in his words devestated him.  I think what he shared is evidence of shadows of so called black folks.  After informing a college wresting teammate of his study of choice, his teammate replied:

     "The black community can not afford the luxury of someone with your intellect to spend it on that subject."