The concept that the U.S government is using psychological Warfare as a weapon to influence and control its Black population as a means of maintaining its white dominance is not at all ridiculous.  
For since the 1950's, U.S. experimental psychologists and Cognitive scientists have developed modern advances in our understanding of the genetics of social behavior known as Sociobiology. This a controversial new science of the biological study of social behavior of humans. Its concepts contains ideas about the unconscious mental process that proposes that most of our mental processes happen outside of our awareness suggesting that the ability to subconsciously control the behavior of masses of people is now a distinct possibility.
Over the past five decades, the study of human sociobiology has transformed into an evolutionary psychology that has gained science the means and ability to control and, therefore, predict the actions and feelings of individuals or groups merely by the messages conveyed against them.  According to this controversial use of psychology, the human mind is the most extraordinary part of the human body, and there seems to be little doubt that individuals and mass groups can be profoundly influenced and or controlled by information conveyed to them.  
The ability to influence and confuse audiences in mass may have first become obvious as a result of one of the most infamous mistakes in history. It happened on Oct. 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a popular radio program that featured a plays directed by, and starring, Orson Welles. The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth. But in adapting the book for a radio play, Welles made an important change: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.  News of the panic was conveyed as a via genuine news report. As the audience listened to this simulation of a news broadcast, created with voice acting and sound effects, a portion of the audience concluded that it was hearing an actual news account of an invasion from Mars. This quickly generated immense scare. People packed the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, fought among themselves, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from Martian poison gas, in an attempt to defend themselves against aliens, oblivious to the fact that they were acting out the role of the panic-stricken public that actually belonged in a radio play.-- people were stuck in a kind of virtual world in which fiction was confused for fact.
 These people [victims] listening to the false broadcast became confused and disarray because they were taken in by simulations. This example proves that a few effective voices, conveyed through the media can convince masses of people of a totally unreasonable, completely fantastic proposition as to create a nation-wide panic. Moreover, it demonstrated more potently than any argument, that beyond a question of a doubt, the appalling dangers and enormous effectiveness of media. That broadcast also revealed the way in which the Government could use the power of mass communications to manipulate the public towards its objective.
 
Today, the U.S. government, like many other developed nations, conducts planned campaigns of extensive strategic psychological operations through the national media to influence the perception and climate of the nation towards the attainment of its governmental objectives. The  U.S. Government's unrelenting commitment towards maintaining it's white dominance therefore accordingly resulted in it using this effective contemporary system against its Black population.
The U.S. Government's psychological warfare against African Americans is implemented through an  immense campaign of false statistics and media reports [of were in which they are routinely subjected daily to seeing through a controlled national media only the worst in themselves that also insinuate that they should admire, respect, and trust only whites] A controlled media degrading its back population and disproportionately portraying Black men as the face of crime and Black women as the face of welfare. This perversion of reality, shifting the blame, and role reversal of the problem of racism to be the fault of African Americans, is perpetuated unrelentingly everywhere through press releases, pamphlets, radio, newspaper, and magazine articles and television. Its objective is to create a shift in victimization in behalf of whites that lessens pressure for social change on behalf of Blacks thus making the nation and the entire world insensitive to the plight of African Americans, thus successfully striping them of the national and international support that was acquired during the 1960's civil rights struggles. 
These negative portrayals of African Americans are totally false and inaccurate, but are necessary to make it appear that Black behavior is the reason for White racism in the U.S.  This covert method of white racism  tranquilize efforts on behalf of Blacks and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today; it attempts to discourage  miscegenation between Blacks and Whites; it  also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity.  It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. 
 Because no group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact, the worst aspect of this psychological operation against America ’s Black population is, not how it adversely affects race relations, but instead how it causes many African Americans to perceive themselves.  The governmental psycho-social treatment of African Americans is designed to mold the character of self hatred. The unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche  corrupts many African Americans’ sense of racial unity  by engendering self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. 
Like that of a  group of people aboard a massive ship that is constantly being broadcasted  derogatory messages that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy or perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent or was planning a mutiny.  With time, this group receiving the constant negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves. The perception created by the taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunted group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves. This science of psychology works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception.
 
 The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, psychological warfare meets this need. It was the logical choice—because it covertly provides the U.S. Government the ability to both influence the national climate and engender personal psychological feelings among its Black population that meet the U.S government objectives of maintaining its white dominance.
Furthermore, history overwhelmingly demonstrates that the White race’s innate proclivity for racism, control, and dominance is much too deeply ingrained for them to just merely give up their practices of implementing suppressive methods over its African American population.   The records of history show that the reincarnation of suppressive methods into forms more acceptable to the changing times is a common practice of the United States government as seen after the abolishment of slavery wherein its methods of using racist, oppressive treatment of its Black population was reincarnated into Jim Crow laws.  And, also, let us not forget the many sorts of devious strategies and methods used to prevent Blacks from becoming registered voters. The historic and demonstrative evidence overwhelmingly reflects the reality that the U.S. government does manifest a proclivity for reinventing devious methods to suppress its Black population. This proclivity has led to the U.S. Government now using its proven method of psychological operations to control the advancement and growth of its Black population.  It was the next logical choice for it provides the Government the benefit of the appearance of conducting humanitarian efforts to help its Black community while covertly seeking only to maintain its White dominance. Those who forget history are destined to have history’s crimes repeated against them. 
 
While this may still sound incredibly ridiculous or unbelievable for many, psychological warfare is a real method of warfare  that is commonly used by the U.S. Government. It was even used during the Iraq war. The United States Military dropped propaganda leaflets on Iraq and planted favorable stories about the new Iraq in the Baghdad press, radio, and television media to perpetuate propaganda and misinformation to facilitate their easier exploitation and suppression and also rewrote the Iraq schools curriculum to reflect more favorable depiction in its portrayal of westerners/Whites. These implementation in Iraq are remarkably consistent with the current social conditions and experiences of African Americans.