The emotional plague is a two edged sword that can appear as sadism or masochism. It can either come from the side of a sadistic white, racist police officer who murders a black suspect under investigation or it can come from the side of masochistic black, racist provocateurs who react to this incident in a knee-jerk, divisive fashion by politicizing the tragedy into one in which all blacks are portrayed as the victims of white sadism and all whites are capable of behaving in a sadistic fashion against blacks.
Sadism and masochism originate from a common source, from the destructive secondary layer that exists in all armored humans which is the repository of the emotional plague. Both behaviors are highly destructive to the well-being of society. They must be recognized as a manifestation of a human disease, the emotional plague, so that the symptoms can be treated effectively like any other infectious illness and not turned into a politically divisive social issue resulting in a nationwide eruption of the emotional plague.
Charles Konia, M.D. 