He's one of the people, myself included that thinks that racism, and internalized racism are forms of mental illness, a species of schizophrenia, with denial, projection, justification, psychotic violent behavior, or self-destructive behavior which goes unpunished, for the former, and encouraged in the latter. Dr. Pierce would say, that you're crazy for believing in White Supremacy, no matter what your race is. (I'm 1/16th white myself, but I can't prove it ;-) The last white person in my genetic line is the lone slaveowner in my 16 great great grandparents...though the one drop rule doesn't apply to white people according to white people. And I can't pass the paper bag test in anycase. One of many contradictions if you know the history, is that Dr. Pierce is not a Communist, he just doesn't believe any one race is superior to all other races. That's not collectivist, its real. It's just as crazy a notion for white people to believe it, as for non-white people to believe it and bleach their skin, straighten and blond their hair and thin their noses, and believe in the mythology that Liberty and Justice means you too. If blood be the price of patriotism, Black people have fought in every war that America has fought, even before there was an America, to help make an America. Yet, as an example when Black Soldiers get lynched in uniform during wartime in the streets of New York City, as well as Mississippi. Four commanders in chief make no statement to the American People that lynching black soldiers is unpatriotic and will be punished as treason and aiding the enemy, which in the case of the Germans, and Russians, also believed in White Supremacy. Funny, it takes a communist...Ho Chi Minh, to speak out against the barbarous practice of lynching...while Woodrow Wilson, made no such statement, even endorsing Birth of A Nation as the best movie ever made. So a communist speaks out about lynching, but the commander in chief says not one f-ing word. Robeson, and Einstein, and others sign a petition to Truman to have him publicly denounce lynching in general, and for black soldiers in particular, and he refuses to see them Einstein included. It wasn't communists who bombed the 16th Street Baptist church in Bombingham...it was the Klan...oh but they're patriots...not the soldiers fighting the Nazi's and Japanese to keep ya'll free, who dare to think that because they fought for their country in a foreign land, they can walk on the segregated sidewalk, not have to drink out of a faucet while the white people get to drink from refrigerated fountains...they believe that the uniform and service to their country means that the thanks of a grateful nation trumps the color of their skin...and they paid the ultimate price, not at the hands of an enemy, but a the hands of citizens, and law enforcement who either participate or look the other way... So we elected officials that ignore the fact that black people had the vote starting in 1866...but could get killed for exercising it...so when we try to use the international courts to charge the U.S. with crimes against humanity, and genocide...they invoke national sovereignty...again the triumph of racism over the rule of law....don't even try invoke the Obama post-racial mythology, because I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, any more than a black president will make it all better...just because he's black...puleeze...this is America...it don't believe in the audacity of hope...no we're the greatest country in the world...land of the free with more people behind bars than China or Russia, homeless vets, and suffering little children...Katrina...Tuskeegee... I'm trying to believe in an America that doesn't exist yet...an America that won't exist..unless we work like Morpheus to free our minds from the Matrix of Domination...

If, you've actually read Dr. Pierce and put this quote in the context of his larger body of work, Navy Commanders who study extreme environments, and deduce what makes you go bonkers in Antarctica...It ain't no sun for months, or 100 degrees below zero, that gets you...its the little things around you. He then draws the corollary that being black in America is like being in Antarctica...it isn't being lynched, redlined, being James Byrd'ed, Rodney Kinged, Emmett Till'd or Mary Turner-ed that gets to you...Its the little microaggressions, micro-insults, far more frequent and normalized that gets to you. He's basically saying American Racism and White Supremacy is so endemically normalized, that every child entering school in America is in effect mentally ill, because they do not have the language, social, scientific literacy, or cultural skills to operate on an international scale. As in Africa where it is considered normal to be able to speak easily 3 - 7 languages, to be able to do advanced mathematics like calculus, in your head, because your country's economy can't afford calculators, so you do calculus in your head...and you accept the fact that talent and leadership can come in forms other than a wealthy monolingual white male. Even 30 years ago, it was obvious that that the link between nationalism, patriotism, were linked to racism...unless you think the cousins of the Klan, the Nazi's, the John Birch Society, the Militias, are the only patriots. That only white people, can be patriots. The movie Avatar is this American attitude writ large...we need the 20 million dollar a kilo rocks, under the blue monkey's tree, and the monkey's had better move or die... murder and genocide of the indigenous are unfortunate precursors to progress... and you think this is normal? Liberty and Justice for All? All men are created equal, does not mean the same as All My Relations. Jefferson did not mean liberty and justice for all human beings...just rich white guys are the only human beings...it took blood and war...for people to get a semblance of equal rights. South Africa's Constitution looks better than ours in terms of explicitly outlawing discrimination and supporting 16 official languages. More languages you speak, the more intelligent you are...why would you insist on only one language...and a fairy tale "Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Democracy started with Jefferson or the Greeks, and there was no history on this continent before 1492, or before Jesus... By the way how many armies did Jesus lead? How many people did Jesus say to kill, or did Jesus kill? So the Klan can lynch people on Sunday and still have their sins forgiven? American National Socialists are not considered traitors but patriots? Chester Pierce the Harvard Psychiatrist and Navy Commander is crazy? He's just pointing out the contradictions.