Yesterday, I got the news through the grapevine to pray for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, noted Psychologist and highly-acclaimed author of The Isis Papers, because she was on life support.

I searched for news on her, but could find nothing on the Internet 24 hours ago — and I already knew there would be little to nothing about her in the “mainstream” corporate media.

Today, the word out is that she has passed away, and that the prayers of those who stood in the gap for her ultimate healing have been answered.

It was recently that I became another of Dr. Welsing’s fans, because so much about her was hidden and unspoken around my circles, as they were the life and scholarship of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, whom I recently discovered was from the small town in which I was raised.

Dr. Welsing was one of the most scholared and degreed notables who ever delivered the truth about white people’s “fascination” with Black men’s penises. Along with her other high-minded cutting edge teachings, this truth is the one that was the hardest to bear.

In all of the years that many would have argued with her and denied it, “penis envy” and the ability of the Black male member to wipe out the entire white race was the absolute truth that roiled us and that most who heard it either ignored or shied away from.

We talk about Shaharazad Ali and her seeming seething hatred of other Black women with her outspoken willingness to blame them/us for everything; but Dr. Welsing put a spin on the question about Black men and women that blamed no one at all except how systematic racism had left us all and our families in a binding lurch.

Dr. Welsing applied scientific truth where theories failed; and too many like her don’t get their dues on Earth until they have entered into ancestry.

That day comes today.

Though her late-life talk became congealed with many years of talking about the same subject over and over again, she shed light where others were afraid to step. What she was unafraid to speak of has come to pass right before our very eyes. “Extraordinary” is a word that is truly beneath the depth of work that she did on this side of eternity.

Rest in Honor and Power, Dr. Welsing. You done good!

Another Take on the Life of Dr. Welsing

They call her a “race theorist,” we call her Truth, Light and Love.