Black History Month Special 
The War of the Balls

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Editor’s Note:

The following excerpt from Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Chicago: Third World Press) is from Adam Parfrey, ed., Apocalypse Culture II (Venice, Cal.: Feral House, 2000).

In the game of billiards or pool, there are eight colored balls, a white ball and a long dark stick placed on a table. The object of the game is to use the long stick in causing the white ball to knock all of the colored balls under the table. The last colored ball knocked under the table is the black ball. When the game is over, the white ball is the only ball that remains on top of the table with the long dark stick. Then the game starts again.

Bowling is also an interesting game in the white supremacy culture. Usually, this game is played with a large black ball being rolled forcefully down an alley where it is expected to knock down 10 white pins; the central pin is referred to as the “kingpin.” Clearly the bowling pins are white and, in shape, are phallic symbols. In other words, the pins are white phallic symbols that are knocked asunder by a heavy black ball, over which the bowler attempts to gain mastery. In symbolic fantasy, the bowler sees himself as master and possessor of the larger black ball and thereby in control of the harm it can bring to the white male genital apparatus (the white pins).

. . . It is not surprising that large numbers of white females hang around Black basketball and football players and that these Black males often are trapped into sexual involvement by these white females. The Black male ball players, in turn, also are conditioned under white supremacy domination to place brown balls in white nets (white vaginal orifices) as a mark of supposed true Black manhood, since Black males refer to white males as “The Man.” In placing brown balls in white nets and between white goal posts, the Black males in fantasy become “The Man.”

. . . Interestingly, golf, the most “elite” of all of the ball games in the white supremacy culture, is played with a long dark-colored stick or “iron” held between the legs. This iron is smashed against the side of a very small white ball. The object is to knock this small white ball into a hole in the black earth (black mother earth — the Black female?).

. . . Is it a reflection of white male self-hate and self-rejection and rejection of the inadequacy of the white testicles (“balls”) that the games played with small white balls involve the balls being attacked, hit, struck and knocked far way from the body-in an act of masochism; whereas by contrast, the games played with large brown balls involve holding onto and possessing the balls? No large brown balls are struck with objects in the white supremacy culture’s popular ball games. There is indeed significance in these facts.

. . . Is it not also curious that when white males are young and vigorous, they attempt to master the large brown balls, but as they become older and wiser, they psychologically resign themselves to their inability to master the large brown balls? Their focus then shifts masochistically to hitting the tiny white golf balls in disgust and resignation — in full final realization of white genetic recessiveness. It would be of further interest to ascertain the number of army generals in the white supremacy system who play golf (demean white genetic material) while planning for race war or the destruction of non-white genetic material.