Among the “learning objectives” listed is: “understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.” White people think it’s their actual face. They don’t even know they have a mask on. Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. We need to remember that directly talking about race to white people is useless, because they are at the wrong level of conversation. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall. We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath. They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. We are now in a psychological predicament, because white people feel that we are bullying them when we bring up race. White people are out of their minds and they have been for a long time. I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry.

This is the cost of talking to white people at all. Here are some of the quotes from the lecture: But looking at the doctor’s social media, it seems completely genuine. When I listened to the talk I considered the fact that it might be some sort of elaborate prank. A few weeks ago, someone sent me a recording of a talk called “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” It was delivered at the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center by a New York-based psychiatrist as part of Grand Rounds, an ongoing program in which clinicians and others in the field lecture students and faculty.

Aruna khilanani.