Christopher C. Bell Jr. (born May 7, 1933) is an American writer, African American author, poet, and lecturer. Bell is best known for his controversial writings on racial issues in the

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that cause the "White Superiority Syndrome" which is a term he coined. He's a founder of the Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA).

Life

Bell was born and raised in Campostella, a small suburb of

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. He is a retired Major of the

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. He co-founded the Muslim American Veterans Association in 1997 and later became a Unitarian Universalist and humanist.– "What Unitarian Universalists Should Know About African American Humanists and Why It Should Matter" sermon at Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church July 18, 2010
/ref> He retired in

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, which is in

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Works

His first book ''Soldiers Do Reason Why . . .'' published January 19, 1998, is a book of poems he wrote when he was in the military. His next book, ''Lt Williams on the Color Front'' published June 10, 2005, is a fiction story about a platoon leader in an all-white Army Infantry Regiment in Germany. This has some basis in his own life as he was a lieutenant in the 1950s. ''The Belief Factor and the White Superiority Syndrome'', published January 19, 1998, preceded his more recent book ''The Black Clergy's Misguided Worship Leadership'', are both non-fiction books intended for African-American leaders to stop preaching the Biblical story of Jesus since Jesus is always depicted as white or light-skinned which is unhealthy to the black psyche, according to his theory.

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Christopher C. Bell Jr.
– author's site {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Christopher C. Living people 1933 births Writers from Norfolk, Virginia African-American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people African-American male writers