This book could easily have been more than 272 pages. As a Black Studies scholar I have an obligation to study and analyze all forces that impact upon Black people. No force has been more detrimental than the white race. The tendency has been to place the blame solely on the white man without understanding that the white female is the short- and long-term key to oppression the world over. As the saying teaches, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the throne." My theory, "The Process of Samsonization" is a metaphor for the role that white woman has had in controlling the world's biggest oppressor. Delilah did not cut Samson's hair; she manipulated and ordered barbers to do it. And that is the key to power. Power is the ability to get people to do what you want them to do, whether they want to do it or not. Samsonization is relevant because Black men are the most creative and unique beings on earth. Even the diluted versions in this country who foolishly call themselves African-Americans, are really an African people. After a chapter on the white woman in a global perspective, I offer up a snippet of her in the history of racism, along with a section called "The History of the Blonde Bombshell." Studies or her role in starting riots in such places from Springfield (IL), Atlanta (GA) and Tulsa (OK) to Rosewood, (FL) and Omaha (NE). In each of these cases her lies and claims served as the basis for the murders of black people and the destruction of black communities that would follow. Today's history books want to gloss over such historical factoids. My theory is that the white woman is the new white man sans penis. I refer to it as "cutting the authoritarian umbilical cord." I discuss the gender overthrow which even now is being perfected as the white female, driven by the need to avenge her millennium long abuse by her mate, is on the attack. Tactics such as divorce and other extra-legal tactics will be explored. As for the myth of sacred white womanhood, I go back to the destruction of black communities with specific names and places. I will address such personalities as Agnes Lobeck, Fannie Taylor, Amanda Knox, the Central Par k 5 incident and many others. Many of them came forward and confessed to their lies only on their death beds as they prepared to author books. Her role in popular culture and the "payback flick" is an important male-financed strategy but a female tactic. Movies about revenge ("Heaven hath no fury like love to hate turned/Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned") will be briefly analyzed, ranging from "Bad Match," "Single White Female," "Fatal Attaction," "First Wives Club" and "The Bride Wore Black" and others, will deliver the basic point. She has not forgotten the role of "whore/high priestess" that her mate imposed on her and circulated all over the world. Now it's time for "payback." Revenge! The use of the word "invasion" might throw some of you off. But I know of what I speak. She invaded the misogynistic gender roles imposed on her by reversing them. Now she wants to invade the power relationships by taking over the throne of oppression. She's not saying "get off the throne"; she's saying, "Scoot over, let me show you how it's done." And since in either case it is my people - Africans all - who are feeling the sting of the lash, what difference does it make what gender it is who is issuing the flogging? It may well be as feminist Gloria Steinem one said: "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
About the Author: Matthew C. Stelly is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working on a degree in Urban Education and Community Policy. He holds three Master's degrees: Urban Studies (1982), Urban Education (1983) and Political Science (2000). He is working toward his doctorate in Community Policy/Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the former editor of the Milwaukee Courier newspaper, former director of the Great Plains Black Museum and the Plano (TX) African American Museum, and lead archivist for The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) in Dallas, Texas. Stelly has more than 2,500 articles in print and has won two national essay competitions. He is the founding director of the largest African-American neighborhood group in Nebraska, the Triple One Neighborhood Association and Parents Union. He is publisher and editor of the Triple One News, a two-time nationally recognized newsletter. He is the father of five children - Mandla, Malik, Clariece, Charisse and Shannon -- and remains actively involved in community organizing and neighborhood development in several cities, including Milwaukee and Omaha.