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Farrakhan Honors Life And Legacy Of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor- | Last updated: Feb 9, 2016 - 9:03:50 PM

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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
CHICAGO—The life and work of renowned psychiatrist, lecturer, and author Dr. Frances Cress Welsing was celebrated February 6 at Rev. Dr. Leon Finney’s Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church in Bronzeville on the city’s South Side.

Dr. Welsing’s “Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and Racism,” and her ground-breaking work “The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors” influenced the minds of generations of Black students and thinkers. She died in Washington, D.C. Jan. 2 after complications from a stroke. She was 80. Many came to show their love and appreciation for her work spanning decades.

Although he had only been contacted earlier that same morning by Dr. Conrad Worrill to share words and was in the midst of a busy schedule, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said he had to make the time to speak about the woman whom he called the “Psychiatrist of the Black Nation.”

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“I am so honored to be here with you to celebrate the precious life of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing,” said Min. Farrakhan. “She attempted the uphill road and she accomplished a golden life. She fought the good fight and was a winner all the way along the road. She never gave up on us! She was always there when we needed a word to uplift us because she was the psychiatrist of the Black Nation! She was the one that we in leadership, when it got a little rough, we could sit down with Dr. Welsing and she would give us the medicine that we needed so that we would get back on the road into the fight and continue,” he noted.

Min. Farrakhan said Dr. Frances Cress Welsing was among many members of the Black Nationalist community who inspired, encouraged, nurtured and protected him, when he began to rebuild the Nation of Islam and reestablish the work of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In many cities, it was members of the Black Nationalist community who secured venues for him to speak and secured him.

During the service officiated by Dr. Conrad Worrill, Dr. Welsing was remembered as a courageous warrior and scholar, and a noble woman who touched many lives. Min. Farrakhan stressed the importance of telling the youth and others about Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s works and making sure that the enemies of truth are not allowed to misrepresent her works in the area of the study of the mind and the impact of White Supremacy not just on Black people, but society at all levels.

Noting the words in the Holy Qur’an, Min. Farrakhan said because she lived her life in service to others, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing can never die.

“Think not of those who die or are slain in the way of God as dead, they are alive—the Holy Qur’an says—but you perceive not,” said Min. Farrakhan. “How is Dr. Welsing yet alive?  She’s alive in the work that she did that the grave can’t hold. She’s alive in the knowledge that she gave and the books and papers that she wrote that can feed generations to come,” he added.