The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory

Foreword

By Marguerite M. Malloy

A quote repeatedly attributed to Maya Angelou: There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. This is what comes to mind when I think of this work by Dante King. For years, he has been overflowing with both love and hurt. He has held on to a 100-pound weight which holds the truth he knows and the sorrow he feels for so many of us who do not know the truth.

Dante displays courage and tirelessness in this work. He treasures the history we all share, and cries out to explain the relevance, relation, and genealogy of the disease of anti-Black racism and white supremacy. The agony Dante bears is eased by the telling of the stories inside these pages.

Dante is an educator, and as my mother might say, a learned man. He has immersed himself in history and social phenomenon. He understands that the artificial construct of race was created to dehumanize, oppress, and economize Africans and Africans born in this country. Dante produces evidence that the roots of this country’s legal, judicial, political, economic, educational, and cultural institutions are founded on anti-Black racism and white supremacy. He proves the intentionality of the acts of dehumanizing Black people.

This work contains information for those of us who wondered about the methods deployed to oppress Black people beginning as early as 1619. This work contains information for those of us who wondered about a divide between Black males and Black females and supposed that history could shed some light. This work contains information for those of us who wondered about the stronghold colorism has on Black people as a group. Finally, this work contains information for those of us who know that we have been afforded privileges but will never be treated like anything more than an exception to the rule.

If you are a student of Black history, you will not be able to put this work down. If you are a student of the sociology of culture and concerned with the systematic analysis of culture, you will not be able to put this work down. If you have always known that laws affect every aspect of our daily lives, you will not be able to put this work down. If you understand that tradition and culture are transmitted from generation to generation, inherited so to speak, you will not be able to put this work down. Lastly, if you are fascinated by the significance of origins, you will not be able to put this work down. You will not be able to put this work down, because Dante has provided the factual, legal, judicial, and cultural basis for his assertions that present and perpetual racial inequities and disproportionate outcomes are historical and psychological in origin.

Reading this work will require you to interact and engage with your prior understanding of bias, what it means to be humane, and what structural racial exclusion, and anti-Blackness mean.

You took the first steps: picking up this text and reading the foreword. Take the next steps: READ IT. Your life will be forever changed.

Key Concepts

and Definitions

American = Colonial and post-colonial terrorism by Anglo-Europeans, reclassified as White people. Historical and perpetual political, legal, judicial, economic, academic, language, and all other institutional affirmative action for White people. Additionally, it includes the exclusion, marginalization, and subjugation against non-White people; most severely the dehumanization, degradation, and genocide of Africans/African Americans that is embedded into the cultural context and identity. Assimilation and conformity to White and anti-Black norms, values, ideologies, education, beliefs, religion, and all other forms of influence and indoctrination.

White Affirmative Action = laws, policies, legal decisions, economic, education, employment, housing, and all other conditions produced through public and private institutions for the benefit of White people, at the expense of non-White, and most severely, Black people.

Anti-Black Genocide = The productions of manufactured, facilitated conditions by White people, leading to the collective overt and covert mass murders of Black people in America

White psychopathy = the historical and perpetual functioning of White people in relationship to themselves and Black people. The psychological ingrained need to oppress Black people as the main way of sourcing and retaining value. Enjoying and experiencing White privilege in the midst of ongoing White terrorism against Black, Indigenous, and other non-White peoples; and never evaluating where the White privilege and power comes from. A lack of concern with the creation, development, and functionality of Whiteness.

Culture = A means by which a group of people organize the way that they think, believe, and see the world; so as to create a consciousness by which they cooperate in achieving certain ends so that they can mutually aid each other and gain ends that they cannot gain as separate individuals. Culture is an instrument of power. The individual, through culture, extends the power of the group.

White culture = A conspiracy. A means by which White people have organized the way that they think, believe, and see the world; so as to create a consciousness by which they cooperate in achieving certain ends so that they can mutually aid each other and gain ends that they cannot gain as separate individuals. White supremacy culture is an instrument of power.

White psycho-economics and psycho-politics = The process of economizing and politicizing White thought patterns, objectives, and purposes that are disseminated through White institutions. The thought processes and patterns of White culture are the bedrock of North American (i.e., the United States) institutions and culture; therefore dictating how people are seen, treated, and utilized for the purposes of serving White people, and achieving White purpose.²⁴,⁸¹,³⁴⁶-48

The culture, attitudes, and behaviors of  Black people have been organized by White people through negative orientations, labels, and pathologies. These negative orientations provide the legal, moral, and ethical rationale for White people, and all others, to marginalize and dehumanize Black people for the purposes of economy.  The ultimate goal is to increase White wealth, which in turn maintains White power, dominance, and control.

In short, White people have organized Black behavior through cultural stigmas that have led and continue to lead to rationalizations and justifications to marginalize and dehumanize Black bodies, for the purposes of psycho-economic and psycho-political agendas. Some examples include:

Immoral

Unfit

Undesirable

Ugly/Unattractive

Problematic

Negative Attitude

Aggressive

Assertive

Angry

Rageful

Attitude Problems

Criminal

Developmentally disabled

Learning Dis-abled/Special Education

These types of White American cultural and political labels have led and continue to lead to the creation of billion-dollar industries. Some examples of White American economic and political practices and outcomes include:

Developing and enacting the historical institution of racial slavery in White America (1619-1865).

Establishing Jim Crow and segregation (1866 – 1977).

Rationalizing and justifying disproportionate school suspensions for young Black boys (1955 – present; resulting from Brown v. Board of Education) .

Surplus funding provided for schools who diagnose and deem students special ed (1866 – present).

Funding industries of White philosophies that have led and continue to lead to 'mis'-diagnoses of Black children with behavioral conditions that are derived from White normative cultural standards for behavior. The ultimate goal being the funding and support of the pharmaceutical, behavioral sciences, and school-to-prison pipeline industries (1977 – present).

Funding the mistreatment of Black people within the health care system (1600’s – present, i.e., phrenological sciences, polygenism, eugenics, etc.).

Surplus funding provided to law enforcement agencies to respond to criminality. (1874 – present).

Funding the detainment and containment of Black people disproportionately throughout all of America's prisons, for the purposes of producing goods and services, as well as population control. (1874 – present).

Rationalizing and funding the industries of Black economic disfranchisement throughout communities nationally (1866 – present, i.e., homelessness, low-wage employment, unemployment, etc.).

Dr. Amos N. Wilson stated in the early 1990’s:

You’ll learn one day, ladies and gentlemen, that Black problems and labeling Black people as problematic people, is worth billions of dollars to White people.³⁴⁹

On the contrary, White people, their behaviors and attitudes are organized through positive orientations which have positive psycho-political, psycho-social, psycho-cultural and psycho-economic benefits, often negligently and ignorantly referred to as White privilege. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

Lack of interrogation into White manipulation and terrorism

Accumulation of power and control

Sustaining and maintaining power and control by means of controlling all cultural and institutional norms and standards

Lack of accountability for mediocrity, deficiency, uncivilized, and/or poor behavior, .

Trust and deference towards White leadership, control, and dominance.

These concepts and frameworks are detailed throughout the books, Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination, and Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century, both penned by  Dr. Amos Wilson.

Additional definitions include:

White sociopathy = Reinforcing White superiority, and the worth less-ness or worthlessness of Black and non-White people with a lack of self-reflection, empathy, and little to no-understanding of the made-up existence and reality created by other White sociopaths. Enjoying and experiencing White privilege in the midst of ongoing White terrorism against Black, Indigenous, and other non-White peoples; and never evaluating where the White privilege and power comes from. A lack of concern with the creation, development, and functionality of Whiteness.

White Epigenetics = the impact of normalized terror against non-White groups, through legalized rape, prostitution, pedophilia, and human sex-trafficking, and the impacts that have been passed-down intergenerationally throughout the White race as a cultural organization. Some examples include – claiming and taking advantage of White privilege and power as the result of White terrorism, with absolutely no sense of responsibility for historical and perpetual oppression; the absence of and/or lack of empathy and/or humility towards non-White people, particularly Black people.

White Paranoia = A persistent fear that Black and non-White people are plotting to seek revenge against White people.

Anti-Black Surveillance = The rights to Black bodies that White people, and people authorized by Whites, gained through laws like the Casual Killing Act of 1669, or the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which legitimized and amplified White suspicion, rights to determine whether Black people were employed or were vagrants who deserved to be hauled off to jail, and the current ways in which White culture pervasively harasses and escalates conflicts with Black people they believe should not be in any particular place they do not deem rational or acceptable.

Genocide (as noted in the Holocaust Encyclopedia) means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such:

Introduction:

Writing this book has been both liberating and painful. It has been liberating in the sense of being able to translate pieces of my curriculum into the format of an actual book. Writing has always been a reflective process for me. It allows me to consider my theories carefully and then articulate them as coherently as I can. It has been painful, immensely so, because over the course of the last 15 years, my understanding of the complexities of racism have increased in ways I never imagined they could have. It has increased through the culmination of academic, professional, and lived experiences that have brought me to this point. I have realized, like so many others, that the indoctrination process, which is key to minimizing and perpetuating racism, is a particularly nefarious weapon we must all strive to understand. I simply must illuminate the targeted, persistent, and consistent harms directed at Black people due to the internalized psychological dysfunction and indoctrination of European-White people in America – and the ways such treacherous practices have consistently been infused into the White, European, and American cultural value system.

I began this laborious journey when I began scrutinizing the predicament that was the anti-Black emotional state America had been founded on and continued to love with a perverse intensity. The more I studied and read, the more I wanted to know. African-American Studies was my chosen major, and though I thought I knew much of our painful history, I quickly learned I had merely touched the surface. I did not fully comprehend the number and nature of the horrors Whites directed at Black people. Furthermore, I did not know or understand the true nature of White people or the evolution of the American story. Perhaps what left me most flabbergasted was my realization that I, a black male, had been successfully indoctrinated through White education, White media, White social and cultural norms, White dominance, and just general White rule. This constituted a horrifying epiphany for me. That horror is what fueled my curiosity and commitment to reframe the Black experience in America. Once I read books such as Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, by Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton, The Fire Next Time, by the inimitable James Baldwin, Race Matters, By Dr. Cornel West, and Black Reconstruction in America, by W.E.B DuBois, in addition to many of the texts noted and referenced within this work, my world changed. Once I focused on and listened to speeches by Dr. Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Kwame Ture, and Malcom X, I became equipped with the vocabulary I needed to begin the arduous process of mending that which I knew viscerally was broken.

I began to understand that I had been robbed of the truth of my identity here. To be clear (because truth can often be subjective) I had been robbed of facts, of information. Did I have some understanding that American Black people had been discriminated against unjustly? Certainly. Did I understand the nuances of how? Not entirely, no. It was through my long, often painful studies that I began understanding how we became and have since remained public enemy number one in this country. American Black people, especially those who are descendants of slaves, exist in a constant state of fear and even terror. Not frequently. Unexceptionally. This is because any number of unpredictable misfortunes can strike us at any time due to White-American cultural function and the sheer value of anti-Blackness.

As I learned the truth about the nuances that have constructed and manufactured Blackness and Whiteness in America, I began to evaluate the cumulative cultural, psychological, and emotional effects. I also began to understand the gradual, persistent development of White hatred toward Africans and/or people interpreted as Black, as well as the infinite ways this disdain reared its head through legal, political, and other cultural institutions and norms. As I began understanding and evaluating the impacts of these realities, I began drafting a curriculum well-suited to combat them. The curriculum has become known to many as Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias: Anti-Blackness, and Its Link to Whiteness, White Racism, Privilege, and Power.

Through this educational experience, I map out the aforementioned elements, some of which I have highlighted in this text. The process requires that students and participants come to terms with the realities of the conditions developed within and throughout White culture. It also requires people to immerse themselves in examining, feeling, and relating to the perpetual and wounding impacts of such persistent, intentional, manufactured dehumanization over a period of 400+ years. The most critical elements of this experience are 1.) All of it is framed through the legal, and political contexts and 2.) Individuals are invited to reframe the evolution and persistence of White racism and anti-Blackness as psychopathic and sociopathic, rather than mere social constructs.

Waking up to the truth, Black Truth, and reliving the effects of what it takes to write, teach, and learn about Whiteness and anti-Blackness have been more painful than any other experience in my life. And I will never be able to un-know, or believe in ideas such as equity, justice, freedom, or equality. These are ideas only, not realities, and they are not available to Black people in America. The last 400+ years have proven this fact, and it is imperative for posterity’s sake that this book be written in ways that enable all who are willing to explore deeply and examine the roots and effects of racism as Whiteness and anti-Blackness.

Below is a list of details I want to make abundantly clear to every person who reads this:

This book should be used as a prerequisite for registering for Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias: Anti-Blackness, and Its Links to Whiteness, White Racism, Privilege, and Power, which can be accessed by going to www.danteking.com, and/or by emailing: [email protected].

The original title of this book was Prosecuting Whiteness and Anti-Blackness in America but was changed to encompass the larger magnitude of the impacts of these conditions, which translate to an ongoing racial genocide. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated in his speech The Other America, which he gave in 1967 at Stanford University:

In the final analysis, racism is evil, racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide. Hitler was a sick and tragic man who carried racism to its logical conclusion. He ended up leading a nation to the point of killing about six-million Jews. And this is the tragedy of racism because its ultimate logic is genocide.²²⁵

In order to deal with and/or address anti-Blackness and White racism as mere social problems, one must deny facts. In addition, one must also accept and embrace that these dynamics are ordinary, normal social dynamics. They are not, and I reject such assertions.

The main objective of this book is to examine the realities of Whiteness and anti-Blackness in America. It is to highlight the complexities of the situation. It is to amplify, synthesize, and reinforce criticisms and philosophies presented by other scholars who have chosen to express themselves about the matter. It is also to offer my own assessments in a way that holds to account legal constructs and the way they were designed to be pro-White and anti-Black.

This book is written from a Black perspective that has understood and is continuing to understand the Black experience outside of the parameters of White psychology, White sociology, and White normativity. The perspective applied here is one that attempts to hold to account Whiteness and White racism. It recognizes, legitimizes, and amplifies my own humanity as well as that of my ancestors. They must not be forgotten, as they endured the horror that is anti-Black terrorism and torture, which were uniformly perpetrated by Whites.

The information is presented in ways that do not conform to anyone's widely-accepted set of principles and/or practices that are associated with White-American-normative-mainstream publishing standards (i.e., Modern Language Association, American Psychological Association, etc.). Abiding by such principles reinforces the subjugation of non-Whites, and/or anyone who rejects Western-oriented and established academic principles. These principles limit how information can and/or should be presented, thereby degrading its potency. There are those who will understand what I mean by this, and those who will not. Regardless, I have made the decision to ensure that this material is available to everyone in the way that my heart and soul feel it. I have also made sure that it is being presented in a way that is accessible to people who may exist within the White, racist academic structure known as The Academy, as well as people who do not exist there, have not had any contact within, and/or have chosen to resist the institution altogether. This material should be easily accessible to everyone.

This does not mean that some of the ways the information is presented will not reflect certain standards and principles. It means that I am not limiting myself to any one formalized presentation style or adhering to White standardized and/or widely accepted principles and practices about how information should be presented.

The root of all problems faced by Black people in America is White oppression. Whether in education, employment, housing, economics, politics, law, healthcare, homelessness, etc., Whites have worked to both individually and systematically oppress Black people for centuries due to psychologically delusional, irrational, and demented proclivities that have led them to believe that Black people deserve to be treated inhumanely.

The term European infers and points to Anglo-Europeans and/or people who have been identified as Caucasian and/or White.

This is not a book about Black history or Black people in America. If anything at all, it is a book about White history, Whiteness, and White people’s creation of Black identity, Black experiences, and anti-Blackness in America.

Whether produced by judiciaries, legislatures, commissions, and/or private policies, anti-Blackness was the main reason for mass imprisonment through the period of Black enslavement. It is named in the law as such. Anti-Blackness is also the condition and motivating factor behind ‘Jim Crow/Separate But Equal’ constructions. Anti-Blackness is the reason for ongoing, severely oppressive economic, legal, political, employment, educational, and all other genocidal conditions destroying Black life in America.

It is important that the terms highlighted in the title, which are consistently referenced throughout this text, be defined. There are additional words that I am defining, as they used in the text also. I am defining the root words to ensure that readers unfamiliar with these terms have a basic understanding. I have chosen to use the Anglo-White-American-adopted-and-accepted-orientation of definitions for these terms. The words and definitions appear here, as they do on www.dictionary.com. They are:

Psychopath – A person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral, and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.

Sociopath – A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

Pathological – A condition caused or evidenced by a mentally disturbed condition.

Psychopathological – 1.) the conditions and processes of a mental disorder; 2.) a pathological deviation from normal or efficient behavior.

It is important to highlight that Whites and other racialized groups in America, do not know and have never known African American people outside of a colonized context. Put another way, White Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx/Hispanic Americans, and others around the world are familiar with and only know African Americans in a reality of colonized, subjugated, disempowered, and inferior profiles. And because African Americans have never lived outside of a colonized reality, we are only familiar with ourselves and each other through this particular lens. In addition, most Black people are not honest with White and other racially privileged and oppressive peoples about the way in which we are triggered by them. And because White and other racially privileged people’s experiences with Black people are limited in most cases, most non-Black people are in touch with Black people in terms of White superiority and anti-Black inferiority constructions. As a result, these people have expectations about and entitlements to, as well as depend on, Black people functioning only in a subjugated, insecure, disempowered, and weak fashion. It becomes a substantial problem for White and other racially privileged people if Black people appear any other way. In our relationships with Whites and other non-Black people, Black people tend to not want to invest much emotionally because of the magnitude and range of the traumas Whites inflict on us on a daily basis. We are injured by White and all other racially privileged people every single day. They do not know what it means to be Black. Yet we are unable to remedy the anti-Black reality in ways that could lead to healing for us individually or as a collective. It is important to ask why that is. It is because Whites have never known Black people outside of a system that tells them White is better, stronger--superior, in short. They have never engaged their Black counterparts in a system that values both groups equally and wishes to see both flourish in equal measure. This type of profile of Black people, one that is empowered and on equal footing, frightens White and other racially privileged peoples. Again, Black people are expected to submit to domination and mistreatment as part of an embedded American cultural agreement.

Whites and others with racial privilege should stop using the term privilege in isolation; context is required. The benefits and privileges which have been built exist and depend on the historical, ongoing, and rampant terror aimed against Black people. The word privilege deals only with the tenet of exclusivity and higher worth based upon the delusion of superiority. And yet, the tenet of historical and perpetual subjugation and perceived inadequacies of Black people is not contained within the word or the use of the word. Furthermore, its definition does not quite capture the totality of the experiences of White and other racially privileged peoples. The privileged benefit from anti-Black terrorism; it is the result of psychological delusion. This delusion must be acknowledged separately from the ambiguous term privilege before any meaningful understanding can be had.

I take an anthropological and sociological approach to this text. Much of it is an examination of structural Whiteness and White identity as an institution, and structural Blackness as an institution. There are litanies of examples that are used to develop the examinations of these entities. The goals are to both question and call out the general mindsets, belief patterns, living patterns, values, behaviors, and actions of Whiteness as