Like others before her, Frances Cress Welsing is puzzled by the racist attitude of whites, and the criminal and discriminatory acts that they have systematically committed against Black people for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
However, while Bobby Wright had suggested that whites behaved like psychopaths in relation to us, and while Marcus Garvey had warned us that there is a racial war going on because of white nationalism, or while Cheikh Anta Diop had suggested the environment as the root cause of white culture’s xenophobia, Frances Cress Welsing goes farther in her quest for a coherent and profound explanation for this abnormal phenomenon that is white racism, and whose impact is without a doubt terrible for those subjected to it. It is the case that as a psychiatrist born in Chicago in 1935, Frances Cress Welsing is in a privileged position to delve into the abysses of the white psyche and reveal its underlying and motivational currents. This book, published in 1991, has now become an indispensable and classic text for those who seek to decode the upside down world in which we live.