What is the Black Alien Self Disorder?

The alien-self disorder represents that group of individuals who behave contrary
To their nature and their survival.
They are a group whose predominant behavior patterns represent a rejection
Of their natural and culturally valid dispositions.

They have learned to act in contradiction to their own life and well being
As a consequence they are alienated from themselves.
These are growing numbers of African-Americans in recent years that have
Been socialized in families with primarily materialistic goals.

They see themselves as basically material beings and evaluate their worth by the prevalence of material accoutrements which they possess.

These families are usually preoccupied with materialistic goals, social affluence
And rational priorities (to the exclusion of moral objectives).

These alien-self persons have been socialized to deny critical social realities
Particularly as they relate to issues of race and oppression.
They are encouraged to ignore blatant inequities of racism and to view their
Lives as if slavery, racism and oppression never existed.

They have learned to pretend in ways inconsistent with their valid cultural identity and their survival.

They are a group characterized by behaviors that represent a rejection of themselves
And anyone who is socially or culturally identifiable as being like them.

These are individuals whose primary behavioral patterns contradict those things
That would insure their cultural well being and the welfare of their socially and
culturally appropriate group.

They have learned to pretend that there is really no social difference between them and the descendants of their historical oppressors.

They live in complete denial that there are forces of injustice threatening their collective survival. They are encouraged to always adopt the perspective of the dominant culture
even if it means a condemnation of self.

The outcome for the alien-self disorder is a symptom picture not dissimilar to the rather
traditional neurotic in Caucasian society.
This is a person who condemns their natural identity and characteristics and attempts,
ineffectively, to live in a dream world.
Such persons are usually wrought with anxiety, tension and existential stress.

They remain in conflict as to their true identity and go from one social charade to another.
A typical example is the sorority socialite who becomes the miserable suburbanite
playing at happiness in a glass palace. They are burdened with sexual problems
And perversions because the natural sexual disposition has either been excessively
Restrained or accentuated for the purpose of attracting attention to themselves
for the wrong reasons.

Conclusion
This alien-self disorder is occurring with alarming frequency in middle class and
professional African-American communities.
Affectations best describes the person with the alien self-disorder they speak, walk,
Dress, act even laugh as they visualize the dominate group.
At great pains they live in neighborhoods predominantly or exclusively populated by other ethnic groups;
Their children attend the same exclusive school of the most elite of the dominant group;
they attend exclusive churches and aspire to join exclusive clubs. Their major obsession is to be the only, the first or one of a precious few of the racially oppressed group
to which they belong. The outcome for the alien self person is that they belong to
neither group: