Beyond White Superiority Syndrome Conditioning In America

By ED.D. Christopher Bell Jr.

This book is a primer to inspire and inform those persons working to change America's political and social culture from its white supremacy conditioning posture by advancing America's ideals of a culture that truly attempts to build a land of equal opportunity and equal justice for all Americans.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: LitFire Publishing
• Release date: Nov 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781646740093

ED.D. Christopher Bell Jr.

Dr. Bell is a seasoned educator and teacher. He is also a veteran observer of the motivational and behavioral effects of America's White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning on both white and black people. He has studied and written about racial issues for over 20 years, and has facilitated interracial discussion forums for over ten years. Dr. Bell shares in this book information and techniques that he believes will be helpful for those who wish to begin sincere efforts to help eliminate racism in America.

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Beyond White Superiority Syndrome Conditioning in America

Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Bell Jr., ED.D.

ISBN: 978-1-64674-009-3

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Contents

Prologue: The meaning of Beyond White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) Conditioning

Essay 1

The unspoken legacies of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC

Essay 2

What would Frederick Douglass, who was a run-away slave in the 1800s, say about race relations in Maryland today (2010)?

Essay 3

How about those Redskins!!

Essay 4

Black American Veterans, still in search of The DOUBLE V Medal

Essay 5

The unintended consequences of the idealistic language of the Declaration of Independence of the United States

Essay 6

A 2016 progress report on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 dream?

Essay 7

The Joys and Sorrows of a Black voter-observer of the United States 2012 Presidential Election

Essay 8

The Benefits of the A.D.O.R.E (A Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity) forum

Essay 9

White People’s comfort zones, Black people’s comfort zones; will they ever comfortably merge?

Essay 10

Minimizing your White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning

Essay 11

FREEDOM’S CONTINUING SAGA IN AMERICA

Essay 12

Keeping small unintended racial slights from becoming huge problems at work, play, and church

Epilogue:

Beyond White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) Conditioning; A challenging journey to a new cultural era

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BEYOND WHITE SUPERIORITY SYNDROME (WSS) CONDITIONING

Confronting White America’s Racial Hypocrisy

Prologue:

The meaning of Beyond White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) Conditioning

What is White Superiority Syndrome (WSS)? This author defines White superiority syndrome (WSS) as the internalized belief in both white and black people that white people, as a race, are smarter and better and more beautiful than Black people. By better we mean that White people are more deserving of good things happening to them than are black people. By smarter we mean that white people are more intelligent than Black people and should therefore control the government and the society. By more beautiful we mean that white people’s physical characteristics represent the epitome of how human beings should look, i.e. pale skin, blond straight hair, narrow nose, thin lips, etc.

What is White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning? White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning is the everyday processes by which America’s white supremacy culture indoctrinates, educates, socializes, and acculturates Americans to accept and believe that assigning higher values and more privileges, rights, and advantages to white people than to black people is good, reasonable, and healthy for America; because white people are superior to black people.

The instrumentalities and institutions involved in this White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning or acculturation process include America’s white-controlled: political system, civic policies, police practices, judicial systems, educational goals and practices; religious orientation, news media, and entertainment institutions. These institutions and instrumentalities are key factors in the White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning whereby many Americans accept white supremacy or white racist practices as desirable or practical, good for law and order, and otherwise justified. These major WSS conditioning agencies, institutions, and instrumentalities work together to form, shape, or mold the thinking, the belief patterns, the hopes, the moral direction, and the values and aspirations of most Americans. They serve the American public: (a) in ways that favor white people over black people; (b) in ways that provide more power, prestige, privilege, and profitable opportunities to white people than to black people; (c) in ways that tell both black and white people directly and subliminally that white people are superior to black people.

Although most Americans experience WSS conditioning processes, these processes are not 100% effective and many people stave off WSS conditioning; especially if they have received intervening information, experiences, or teachings that neutralize the effectiveness of such conditioning.

What do we mean by "Beyond White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning? When we speak of Beyond White Superiority Syndrome (WSS) conditioning," we are referring to a future era in which most White and Black Americans have overcome or neutralized today’s normal American White Superiority Syndrome conditioning processes. However, such an era will never come unless and until both white and black people develop new ways of thinking and believing about themselves (self-awareness), and about race and race relations; and then learn to work together to move America toward a humanistic cultural reality.

What do we mean by America’s racial hypocrisy? Hypocrisy means to put on a false sense of virtues, or feigning to be what one is not, or to say that you believe what one does not.

America has presented itself to the world as: (a) the land of the Free