NEGROPHOBIA

Negrophobia is defined as a fear, hatred or extreme aversion to Negro people and Negro culture Worldwide. Caused amongst other factors by racism and traumatic events and circumstances, symptoms of this phobia include but are not limited to the attribution of negative characteristics to Negro people, the fear or the strong dislike of Negro men and the objectification of Negro women. In American, Negrophobia is a product of slavery and colonization which served to rationalize why the “Savage” Negro should be kept in bondage or reduced to second-class status when freed. After the civil war, “Negro Freedom” would be seen as such a threat to White Society, Negrophobia would create the Ku Klux Klan, Coon Caricatures and political sabotage, like the Black Codes of the South and Compromise of 1877, transforming this phobia into physical, psychological and structural violence. The film “Birth of a Nation” (1915), would be the pinnacle of the post slavery’s Negrophobia era, revealing a sentiment held so ingrained, Negro massacres would ensue well into the 1950s.

This level of racial terror has had damaging effects on the way the Negro People view themselves. More specifically on Frantz Fanon's analysis of Negrophobia, the psychiatrist was the first to introduce the concept of Black Negrophobia, pointing to the hatred of Negro people and Negro culture by Negro people themselves. Indeed, he asserts that Negrophobia is a form of "trauma for white people of the Negro". Equivalent to internalized racism caused by the trauma of living in a culture defining Negro people as inherently evil and inferior, Fanon emphasizes the slight existing cultural intricacies caused by the vast diversity of Negro people and cultures, as well as the nature of their colonization by White Europeans. Similarly, the pattern further includes attributing negative characteristics to Negro people, culture, and things.

Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (1970) stands as an illustrative work on the destroying effects of internalized Negrophobia among the Negro community.

As we arrive here today, survivors of the brutality of the Transatlantic Slave trade, the Domestic Slave Trade, Wars, Lynchings, Massacres, Theft, State-Sponsored Terrorisms, Reclassifications and much more, this United Nations recognized, “Crime Against Humanity” is a Negro Ethnocide.

With honoring the call-to-action from our elders, in remembrance of our ancestors and slain leaders, this Human Rights violation can be no more. The New Negro Republic has come together to put an end to “Negrophobia”. This hatred has plagued us for centuries to the point that even after the Civil Rights Movement, the name “Negro” is experiencing a more than 50-year erasure attempt with many Negroes conditioned to abandon our name because of its painful past.

“NO NEGRO ALLOWED”

At the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement in 1969, “Negro” had sustained as our most used, adorned and recognized identifier. We’d lost many of our Heroes to assassinations in this fight for equality but succeeded with establishing the most revolutionary transformation our country had experienced since the Civil war, Integration. This triumph was the last Negro Victory we would achieve as a collective body. Entering a “new” America by 1970s, Negro Unity was subverted by cointelpro and the youthful militant echoes of “Black Power” destabilized. Self-identifying affirmations like “I’m Black and I’m Proud” became symbolic but unaware of a new form of targeted racial terror, to be masked for decades. Ethnic bias and “Minority” Status. Negrophobia was never abandoned by the dominate society and calling ourselves “Black”, while being thrust in with “people of color”, the Negro would be replaced. Is this the burning building the great Negro Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spoke of? Is this the reason the great Negro Malcolm X fought for separate but equal?

The dark ages of the Vietnam War, War on Drugs and Crack Epidemic from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s would crack the Negro family tree to the root. Symbols of “Black” success in the dominant white society would ignore the Negroes socio-economic crisis only exacerbated by integration. Tokenism and racial mixing had a segment of Negro people looking for a new “Black” identity to fit a white corporate structure and in another, Afrocentrism would take over college campuses pushing past Negro History in America but in search for an African one. Professor Romona Edelin would be whom to credit for former Presidential Candidate and Civil Rights Activist Rev. Jesse Jackson with the insertion as “African-American” as our new “ethnic” name in 1988 at a leadership conference in Chicago. The belief being Negro had no “cultural integrity”, Pan-Africanism became the new school of thought and to be “conscious”, would mean to create some reconnection with Africa to not “Sell-out”, and “African Studies” became a new gateway into white society.

Performative at best, this new term African-American and the many scholars of African Studies didn’t deliver the Negro to Negroland or African-Americans dual citizenship to the promise land. The Negrophobia that has spawned so many name changes by Negro People and others since the 1960s is evidence of an internalized conflict, No “Negro” allowed. The preference of Black continues to hold significance in the aspects of individual “pride” but a full abandoning of our Negro past has not better positioned our place in society, It’s flattened us and let those responsible for our ethnocide, relinquish themselves from it. Who would be to blame? A cocktail of all things could be served at this point. Negro History Week has become Black History Month and not Negro History Year. Youth don’t learn about the 50,000 Patents Negroes contributed between 1870-1940 or the number of thriving Negro towns between the 1900s-1950s.

The Civil Rights Movement serves a position that the Negro had no safety on his own, The Black Power Movement serves a position that the Negro had no home in America and the “Back to Africa”, Pan-African Movement has yet to give the Negro a home or safety on the continent.

We at the NNR know Negro Unity is our home, so we aren’t concerned with debates of our name. We are American Negroes, lineage of a phenomenal ancient bloodline of people.

NEGROPHOBIA IS SYNONYMOUS WITH ANTISEMITISM