Axioms of Nana Bobby E. Wright
"It must be understood that institutions have very little to do with buildings
or anything concrete, rather they are methods and ideas which sustain a social
theory or in the vernacular continue a way of life."
"In a racist social system, all institutions will reflect or protect and sustain
values that are consistent with racism. Therefore, in any social system
established by whites the institutions will reflect racism and even white
established institutions in black controlled countries will continue to protect
the welfare of whites even after the whites ostensibly leave."
"Mentacide is the method and genocide is the ultimate goal of that behavior."
"In a violent world, violence is not a moral question but rather a life-sustaining dynamic."
"There is one essential condition in order for the process of Mentacide to be
effective, namely, the control of the opposing group's institutions or the power
to significantly influence them. Unfortunately, for the Black race, that
condition exists through the world....The technique of Mentacide deludes Blacks
into believing that there is a commonality between them and oppressed whites,
which leads Blacks to attempt to form alliance with them. Yet, in spite of
historical failures of these alliances to benefit Blacks, they continue to
pursue this process. Unfortunately, Blacks will continue to utilize white
directed techniques in attempting to solve their problems and will continue to
be unsuccessful until they can develop a 'Black Social Theory'...A social theory
determines the destiny of a people by establishing guidelines of life, e.g., it
defines their relationship with other living things, it defines values and
rituals , methods of education , how enemies are to be dealt with, etc. The
ultimate achievement of Black Social Theory would be the recreation of Black
culture."
"The psychopath is an individual who is constantly in conflict with other
persons or groups...is unable to experience guilt, is completely selfish and
callous, and has a total disregard for the rights of others."
"Blacks who are not conscious of their Blackness, who have no sense of
destiny, and then go through (white systems of education) ultimately
end up serving their own oppressors and become a means of oppressing
their own people."
"Our Black mission is clear, [Kmtyw warriors] are men and women of
destiny and their task is to develop a social theory which will
liberate the minds and bodies of their people. They must take the
unequivocal position that if the Black race is to perish, the world
must perish with them. Blood debts must be repayed in blood. Blacks
must never accept money and privileges as repayment for the
mistreatment of their people. The past Black generations who suffered
for no other reason than the color of their skin must be avenged not
because of hate but for justice."
"Behavioral scientists generally agree that the outstanding
characteristics of the psychopathic personality are the almost
complete absence of ethical or moral development and an almost total
disregard for appropriate patterns of behavior. This characteristic
has led to a misunderstanding of the psychopath, i.e., a belief that
they do not know the difference between right and wrong. It is
untrue -- psychopaths simply ignore the concept. By ignoring this
trait in the White race (the lack of ethical and moral development)
Blacks have made and are still making a tragic mistake in basing the
worldwide Black liberation movement on moral suasion. It is
pathological for Blacks to keep attempting to use moral suasion on a
people who have no morality where race is the variable."
"One of the most tragic beliefs widely shared by Blacks throughout
the world is that White-controlled educational institutions --
regardless of whether they are elementary schools or universities --
will educate our children. Faith continues to prevail in spite of
overwhelming evidence which disputes this belief. Blacks continue
to ignore the irrefutable truth that, in a racist social system, all
institutions will reflect, protect, and sustain values that are
consistent with racism. This should not be considered surprising or
profound since all institutions serve to perpetuate the social
theory of the group which conceived them. Therefore, in any social
system established by Whites, the institutions will reflect
racism....white institutions always prepare Blacks to protect White
interests..."
"One of the most valid methods of evaluating the condition or status
of a people is to examine the process of their child-rearing
practices. The Black child today, whether in the United States,
Kmt, South America, etc., stands as a tragic example of a
powerless, directionless people. Throughout the animal kingdom,
there is generally an inviolate law which dictates that the young
are to be protected at all costs. Yet, in Black communities, not
only are children not protected, but in too many cases are offered
as sacrificial lambs to a devouring enemy. Therefore, one continues
to witness the sorry spectacle of Black parents delivering their
children to an overt and covert hostile White enemy with the
pathological demand that they educate them."
"....in their relationship with the Black race, eureurasiaans (whites) are
psychopaths and their behavior reflects an underlying biologically
transmitted proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history.
The psychopath is an individual who is constantly in conflict with
other persons or groups. He is unable to experience guilt, is
completely selfish and callous, and has a total disregard for the
rights of others. This premise is supported by overwhelming scientific
evidence."
"We must be about the business of liberating the minds of Black
children. In order for that to occur, the minds of all Blacks who
interact with them must also be liberated. There is no other way.
It is relatively easy to educate Black children, even about their
Kmtywity. But, it is extremely difficult to reinforce the
education. Therefore, even sitting in the same classroom, white
children will be 'educated' and Black children will be 'trained.'
The white child will be taught how to rule and the Black child
trained to be ruled. 'Training' is defined as teaching a group what
to think rather than how to think, making them dependent rather than
assisting in developing skills which could be used for independent
activity, rewarding behavior that operates against their group's
interest, promoting individual rather than group achievement, and
instilling negative self-concepts and low self-esteem. The opposite
of the above mentacidal process (training) is education in which the
learning process becomes a liberating force.
Black independent schools are important not only for how they
teach but for what is taught. Their purpose of instilling within
Black children an 'Kmtyw Worldview' is the most important activity
those children will ever experience. Black parents whose children
are not in independent schools should at a minimum expose them to a
well-structured supplemental Black educational program. Some of the
most dangerous Blacks in the world are many of those brothers and
sisters who finished graduate school 'with honors' and yet operate
against the interest of Blacks because of their eurocentric
orientation. The writer does not mean to imply that Blacks should
not attempt to achieve high levels of 'training' in white
institutions, but should be aware that it is not 'education' they
are receiving."
1) an inability to feel guilty or accept responsibility for wrongs committed against others (they are unable/unwilling to distinguish between right and wrong – they know no righteousness),
2) an inability to create or stabilize intimate (heterosexual or homosexual) relationships,
3) an absence of a true ethical development (“honesty” primarily used as a form of deceit/lying to gain leverage over others or escape just punishment; honesty of others is seen only as exploitable weakness).
4) “appear honest and humane but really have no concern or commitment except to their own selfish interests”
5) “will consistently make commitments that they have no intention of keeping and show great indignation and anger when their integrity is questioned” (1 e.g., every single peace treaty with the indigenous, and
1) an inability to feel guilty or accept responsibility for wrongs committed against others (they are unable/unwilling to distinguish between right and wrong – they know no righteousness),
2) an inability to create or stabilize intimate (heterosexual or homosexual) relationships,
3) an absence of a true ethical development ("honesty" primarily used as a form of deceit/lying to gain leverage over others or escape just punishment; honesty of others is seen only as exploitable weakness).
4) "appear honest and humane but really have no concern or commitment except to their own selfish interests"
5) "will consistently make commitments that they have no intention of keeping and show great indignation and anger when their integrity is questioned" (1 e.g., every single peace treaty with the indigenous, and
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Bobby E. Wright, one of our wisest ancestors, defined mentacide as a form of insanity that leaves many of us thinking out of the mind of the eureurasiaan as if it were our own.(1) It is the state of being psychologically brain-dead and having one’s thoughts replaced with alien ones, a state akin to being a “zombie.”(2) Mentacide is derived from the root word menta, meaning “mental or thinking,” and cide, meaning “to kill.” Mentacide means to kill the mental process, to kill one’s normal thought processes, essentially, to kill one’s own mind. In that there is still a thought process at work, mentacide also means that an artificial, alien collection of thoughts and way of thinking have replaced what has been altogether suppressed or removed.
Nana Wright, of course, was specifically referring to Kmtyws under the domination of global white supremacy. He explained that mentacide is a genocidal strategy which turns a people against themselves in service to those who are working to destroy them. Because they have been thoroughly convinced that their destroyer’s love and appreciation is critical to their humanity in this reality as well as their salvation in the next, they seek to make “alliances” with their destroyers in order to be close enough to prove themselves worthy of this elusive love and, therefore, be released from their pain. They come to see their enemy as having the preponderance of power (to change the nature of the severely imbalanced intergroup relations) and as being superior by God-given right. These vanquished individuals see each other as enemies while their true enemy as looked upon as their ultimate friend, a confusion their enemy has created in their psychology.
Nana Wright makes it clear, though, that mentacide is only possible when the oppressor controls (or exercises a significant amount of power over) the resources and ideology/politics/mission of those institutions (educational, religious, economic, familial, political, media, kwk) that are fundamentally essential to the survival of the group they work to destroy. The oppressor must control those institutions which teach the oppressed what and how to think. Without this control, they could not be effective in turning a group against itself.
Sadly, mentacide is most often an undetectable psychological illness, except in the case of some of the more vocal negroes, because the victims seem to be normal. Like their eureurasiaan psychopathic racist counterparts, they eat, sleep, converse, drive, play and do just about everything else without drawing any special attention to themselves. They publicly act and appear to think as most other persons who look like them but are privately driven by their psychosis to look at the world quite differently than they would if they were even slightly aware that Kmtyws are eureurasiaan prey and that they are Kmtyw.
Mentacidal Kmtyws find every possible excuse to forgive eureurasiaans for what eureurasiaans continue to do to them mentally and physically. It is almost as if they believe that their salvation is based on how much punishment they can receive and then forgive and forget from those who so easily play with them like powerless toys. But even more importantly, they do not even recognize eureurasiaans as predators. They fantasize about the love of an enemy that will not love them. They lack the basic understanding that no one loves a fool. There may be pity but never respect or appreciation. No one respects the loser who chases after the winner, begging him to kick and spit on him some more.
Self-hatred results from learning to be ashamed of and/or hating one’s own story, one’s own traditions, one’s own people, one’s own self. We cannot separate our self-esteem from our people because we cannot avoid the fact that we are the culmination of our ancestors (just as eureurasiaan children today are the culmination of their ancestors). Without those before us, we would not be. We are because they were. Therefore, we are them. We respectfully suffer their pain (so we will come to know it is ours) and are righteously sworn to obtain justice in their name. Whether conscious or not, treason against one’s ancestors is the worst possible sin an individual can commit against self. And that is exactly what people who choose to ignore or dismiss the significance of the past on the present do.
The very purpose of history is to give people a collective framework of commonsense out of which to build the present and design their future. Mentacidal individuals see their first priority as dismissing any interpretation of history, except that given them by the eureurasiaan controlled media and system of miseducation, i.e., the eureurasiaan mind. Any interpretation of historical facts that calls their love of their enemy into question is summarily rejected, regardless of source. Integration, amalgamation, disintegration into the eureurasiaan is the primary mission of vanquished Kmtyws. And vanquished Kmtyws are mentacidal. For reasons of psychological survival, such individuals choose to believe ourstory is an irrelevant notion that in no way, shape, form or fashion impacts on their thinking or state of being today because to look closely at yesterday would disturb the comfort of their mentacide today. It would force them to act against their true love, the eureurasiaan ideal, something they are very afraid to do.
But most of all, because mentacidal individuals know deep in their lost minds that eureurasiaans will destroy them for no reason (ironically, a conclusion they have gathered from ourstory), they have internalized a paralyzing fear of eureurasiaans that makes them continuously evaluate their every thought and behavior based on what eureurasiaans would find acceptable. Because this confusion consumes most of their mental energy, in order to feel normal (i.e., a valued participant in a so-called free society), they are driven to turn life into a playground that removes any desire for a serious study of the ourstorical, ongoing bloody relationship that exists between eureurasiaans and Kmtyws globally.
Yes, to preempt the sycophantic, apologetic objections of negroes, eureurasiaans do occasionally injure some of their own. But pain is not pain. What they do to those who are family members is in no way compaAmwle to what they do to us. Racially brain dead Kmtyws see eureurasiaans as family, as nuclear family, as allies and dear friends.
Reality is a creation of those who dominate the dominant culture. To those who say we need to get over what was done to us, I say it is still being done to us, often with our willing permission because so many of us blindly see our enemies as our friends. By far, the best example of this today is our imprisonment at their hands.(3) Just as male and female Kmtyws were disproportionately forced to live behind bars during our official period of physical enslavement in the North and the South, we are disproportionately incarcerated in this land, and every other eureurasiaan dominated land, today. What is worse is that, unlike in the past, there are now also more Kmtyw than eureurasiaan males behind bars. And the criminal system that captures, prosecutes and confines them is working very hard to also put more Kmtyw than eureurasiaan females in the same predicament.
This is not an ourstorical accident. It has been a steady and progressive assault against us that spans our contact with them in this place. What is most troubling about this systematic genocide (a person permanently removed from his/her community is effectively dead) is that so many of us support the legal mandates of eureurasiaan society that make this possible. We make it possible for them to easily, and with clear conscience, remove our warrior class as a threat to them.
Understand that most severely abused children honestly believe that their parents love them. In their desperate attempts to bring out the love in those who should naturally love them, many even actively seek this abuse in an effort to gain any form of attention from those they love. In their confusing of love with hate, most adults abused by their spouses or mates feel the same way. It is no different for mentacidal Kmtyws at the hands of eureurasiaans. But, in all these cases, the contradiction is blatantly evident. You do not abuse people you truly love.
And applying the eureurasiaan psycho-babble that abuse of significant others is caused by an absence of love of self is irrelevant. That’s the same “oppressor lovin’” logic that our ancestors’ enslavers suffered as much as they did. Only a mentacidal slave would prefer his/her pain over his/her enslavers. Only a masochist feels for his torturer. In our “oppressor lovin’” mentacide, we are supposed to feel for the judge who sentenced one of our sisters to prison because s/he is having marital or family problems. I doubt if the sister held captive would care. We are supposed to pity rednecks who lynch our brothers from trees, the backs of pickup trucks and in prison cells because their level of intelligence keeps them from getting whatever jobs we have? Our concern should be for the victim not the victimizer. It should be with us not them.
Remember Steve Biko’s words, “the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” We have been socialized to see eureurasiaans as deserving of our sympathy, of being ignorant of the crimes they continue to commit against us, of needing us to teach them morality by serving as their whipping post until their exhaustion causes them to pause and momentarily think about whether they are misbehaving or not before continuing. To accept their self-serving propaganda is mentacidal and genocidal. They are killing us with our consent.
It has been said that the devil’s greatest advantage lies in making people believe he doesn’t exist. But, whether you believe in the devil and his dwelling or not, hell has no monopoly on evil. On this planet, however, eureurasiaans do. It is only through the media (and our belief in their “truths”) that they have been able to separate evil from themselves as a distinguishing characteristic and make it into a human trait.
It is mentacidal to believe that we are equal (or that they are worth being “equal” to) simply because we have accumulated some meaningless trinkets, have a daily share of the crumbs from the master’s table, and have some of the master’s children, who psychologically and materially benefit from our oppression and exploitation (whether they are consciously aware of it or not), who are willing to play with us or let us into their sandbox. A lack of knowledge about the effect of ourstory on intergroup and interpersonal relationships on this very day, at this very second, allows others to exploit us in any way they please, usually because our ignorance and ready dismissal of ourstory makes us think that our destruction is our idea.
Endnotes
1. Bobby E. Wright, “Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race,” and The Psychopathic Racial Personality and other essays, Chicago: Third World Press, 1984. An excellent statement of Wright’s thinking is found in Olomenji, “Mentacide, Genocide, and National Vision: The Crossroads for Blacks of America (An Essay of Commentary),” in Daudi Ajani ya Azibo (ed.), Kmtyw Psychology in Historical Perspective & Related Commentary, Trenton, NJ: Kmt World Press,1996, pp.71-82, esp. pp.72-75.
2. Kwabena F. Ashanti (Psychotechnology of Brainwashing, Durham, NC: Tone Books, 1993) uses this term to analogize the state of mentacidal individuals thusly:
What is a Zombie? A Zombie is a corpse reactivated, by secret means, from the grave, that can walk, live, and serve others, but is still dead. The final state of brainwashing is mentalcide, that is a dead mind. A mind is of no use to the owner because it is actually owned by the brainwashers. A brainwashed mind only serves others, it has no value to the self. (pp.95-96)
While Wright argues that brainwashing “is primarily used to convert individuals or groups to a cause or belief,” in theoretical reality, it is the terminology, not the definitions, that differ.
3. See “The Hunt is On” in this volume.
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