Daralene Jones Examined
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- Category: Lifestyle/People
- Published: Friday, 11 July 2014 22:09
- Written by Carl Wiggins
by Carl Wiggins
The recent news story about Daralene Jones' assault on Commissioner Regina Hill has ignited a community conversation. Daralene Jones has become the story. The question most posed is why did Daralene Jones target Commissioner Regina Hill. What makes her tick?
I sat down with four professionals to get their perspective. They are a clinic psychologist, a history professor of African-American Studies, a sociologist and a psychiatrist. They viewed the Channel 9 report, read the email identified in the story and read Daralene Jones response on her Facebook page. They also read her self-posted educational and professional biographies.
These are snippets of each of their professional opinions.
The Clinical Psychologist:
Though I have not had the opportunity to directly examine the subject [Daralene Jones], her behavior
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is symptomatic of a minority person operating in a symbioses relationship with a dominant Eurocentric society. In this relationship, the minority person prefers the majority.
Dr. Kenneth Clark proved this by conducting the "Doll Test." In the "doll test," psychologist Kenneth Clark used plastic dolls, identical except for race. He showed the dolls to black children between the ages of three and seven. Almost all of the children readily identified the race of the dolls and preferred the white doll. When he asked them to color an outline drawing of a girl and color the figure the same color as themselves. Many of the children with dark complexions colored the figures with a white or yellow crayon.
This is what is happening in the mind of Daralene Jones. She sees Regina Hill as the bad black doll. Sort of a dark black commissioner doll she does not want to play with. Neither can her mind imagine a dark black doll as a city commissioner. Daralene Jones would prefer a white or at least a lite-skin complexion doll to be the commissioner.
The Historian:
The best way to understand the mind-set of a Daralene Jones is to read Eldridge Cleaver's `Soul On Ice'. He explains the self-hate that is derived from living in a white dominant nation.
Historically the biggest critics of self-help in the black community have been black people. Must civil reform for black people come from the field slaves, with the house slaves criticizing and/or informing the master. Regina Hill represents the field slave and Daralene Jones represents the house slave. Thus, Daralene Jones attacked Regina Hill for proposing help for her people. The help was the simple requests for jobs.
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She feels that it is her responsibility to do what she did to Regina Hill. In her mind, Regina Hill is totally inappropriate for leadership. If the Master wants leadership for the slaves, it will be a house slave such herself .
The Sociologist:
Daralene Jones is from Chicago and attended colleges and universities in Illinois. Blacks in Chicago generally came from the Tennessee area. They migrated north during WWII with the help of the Urban League to work in the war plants. The new Northern Black began to feel that they were better off than their Southern relatives who stayed behind on the farms as sharecroppers.
This superior attitude was passed on and Northern Blacks still believe that Southern Blacks are less than, less educated and mentally slower.
I see this playing out in Daralene Jones handling of Regina Hill. In fact, I viewed some of Daralene Jones other reports and I see her dealing with the Black leadership in Orlando in the same way she dealt with Commissioner Hill. Her superior psyche is solely dangerous to black people in Orlando.
The Psychologists:
There are definitely some self-esteem issues. However without any hand-on examination, I can only speak in generalities. I would love to employ psychotherapy testing to have a better diagnosis.
Nonetheless, this kind of behavior against a person who is of her kind, black on black, denotes the mirror-glass self-examination.
Daralene Jones displays symptoms that say I really don't like myself. I would rather be somebody else or actually something else. That something else may be White. She is inflicting on Regina Hill the hate she probably inflicts on herself, mentally.
As I was reading comments on her Facebook page, I notice that Daralene Jones uses the sketch of a white woman to plan her make-up. A picture is worth a thousand words. I would recommend that she seek professional help.
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