Re: [WardFive] UPDATE - Dr. Welsing -Services

Thanks, Shirley!!

Theodora H. Brown

On Jan 15, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Shirley Smith <srs-usasc@rcn.com> wrote:

 

 

 

This is the updated information..

 

Memorial Services for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing will be held on

 

Saturday, January 23, 2016, from 3:00pm - 7:00pm EST

 

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

 

1518 M Street, NW, 

 

Washington, DC 20005

 

 

FREE parking available in the PMI Parking Garage,  1615 M St NW (walking distance from the church). 

 

 

The memorial service will be live streamed and live broadcast from WPFW 88.3 FM, www.wpfwfm.org.

 

PLEASE DO NOT SEND FLOWERS OR CARDS to Dr. Welsing's home or office (7603 Georgia Ave.). 

In lieu of flowers, the family is kindly requesting contributions be made to the Cress Welsing Love Fund. 

 

40th Day Ascension Rites Ceremony

 

Thursday, February 11, 2016 

 

Union Temple Baptist Church

 

1225 W Street, SE 

 

Washington , DC 20020

 

(Time to be announced)

 

Family and friends request that we can best honor Dr. Welsing by becoming a living testament of her work and manifest the greatness of our Beautiful Melaninated selves in our speech and actions.

When an elder dies, it is like a library has been burned to the ground. ~ African Proveb View this email in your browser Let us honor the life and legacy of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.  (b. March 18th, 1935 - d. January 2, 2016) Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's Memorial Service will take place On SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016 @ HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S CRAMPTON AUDITORIUM (2455 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) from 11am - 3pm.   Dr. Frances Cress Welsing exemplified the African Warrior Queen of our time. She was an African-centered psychiatrist and offered timeless theories about the origins and maintenance of the system of racism white supremacy. She was also the author of the acclaimed book, "The Isis Papers." She developed a series of theories that were not popular, and like many African geniuses in this time; she was misunderstood, undervalued and even hated. She fought for our people, many of whom didn't understand what she was fighting for. She presented her theories to Howard University as a faculty member and was excused due to her critiques of racism. She came back and lectured for free every third Thursday of every month in Howard University's Blackburn Center, bringing the Washington, DC community into Howard University and taught for decades. She truly was a master teacher, as she remained humble and calm when dealing with the insanity of racism white supremacy, but always focusing on healing African people and having them analyze this system. If you are unfamiliar with her work or if you want to recharge from her words, here are just a few videos to watch: Dr. Welsing on Destructive Imagery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOd9eFC2TOo Dr. Welsing on understanding the game being played us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZHhH60sOkg Dr. Welsing on Black people's Standard of Conduct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAjmjAccDuQ Dr. Welsing on Donahue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquXlgRGX7I Dr. Welsing on the Tony Brown Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAkV1Q4Fnnc Dr. Welsing on how we are at war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMtoeQcHnII Dr. Welsing on Tamir Rice (Her theory applied to all current events): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9U6xKhdiuw Recent Interview with Dr. Welsing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwzbwHzo4M Also, review some of her quotes below: "Black Children are our most valuable possession and our greatest potential resource. Any meaningful discussion of the survival or the future of Black people must be predicated upon Black people's plan for maximal development of all Black children. Children are the only future of any people. If children's lives are squandered, and if the children of a people are not fully developed at whatever cost and sacrifice, the people will have cosigned themselves to certain death. They will be destroyed from without and from within- by the attack of their own children against them. And they may be destroyed by both." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, Asafo p. 197 "What must we as Black women do? It is my conviction that the African proverb 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny' is true. Black women are the mothers and, thus, the first teachers of Black females and Black males alike. With increased consciousness of their importance as the first teachers, Black women can determine whether future generations of Black children will be warriors or if we will continue to be slaves living in a highly refined state of psychological oppression, which is no less a death than direct physical destruction. Black women as mothers and teachers can teach the first powerful lessons in pride and respect for cultural, historical and genetic Blackness, while steadfastly refusing to impart any part of the white oppressors' lesson in Black self-hate that we learn as children...." Francis Cress Welsing The Isis Papers "We Black people do not see the war being waged against us because we don't want to and because we are afraid. We are engaging in behavior designed specifically to block out any awareness of the war -- our true reality. Our behavior thus forces us into the insanity of hoping and begging -- as opposed to the sanity of analysis, specific behavioral pattern design and specific conduct in all areas of people activity…Because we do not understand what is going on, in our impotence and ignorance, in our powerlessness and frustration, we start getting mad, fussing, crying, rhyming, begging with picket signs, rioting in misdirection, hooping and hollering, moaning in our churches and preparing to vote for any white man who smiles at us even though he lies to us. These behaviors are absolutely useless. Such behaviors are in vain and will take us nowhere. They will all come to naught and the problem—the war—will simply continue and intensify." – Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, Isis Papers     Copyright © 2016 Association of Black Psychologists, All rights reserved. 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