The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans

[IM2]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

 

[Meathead]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

Stop whining and get a job.

 

[JGalt]

The Jews had to endure far more than black folks, but they don't be like:

"Ohhhhhh woe is me!!! I demand reparations and stufff.....wahhhhh!!!...."

Suck it up, buttercup.

 

[theHawk]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

Why don’t they move back to Africa? Problem solved.

But we know they won’t. No free welfare and they know living in ”poverty” in America is a thousand times better than living anywhere in Africa.

 

[MarathonMike]

Your white paper (oops was that Racist?) fails in the first sentence. "African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover."

The dangers that Blacks face today are nearly all related to the conditions in poor communities and Inner Cities and/or poor decisions like deciding to sell drugs or join a gang. The living conditions in Inner Cities are the result of policies implemented by LBJ and Bill Clinton. The poor decisions are largely the result of the near 75% abandonment rate of Black men and their children.

 

[there4eyeM]

No human passes through life without trauma-potential events.

 

[petro]

All those " communities" under liberal control for decades.

Think a person could connect the dots rather easily.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Why are the majority of your post blatant race baiting? You are clearly very insecure, and I think you attribute your insecurity to the color of your skin. But that’s not the reason you’re insecure. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, and everything to do with your own self worth. In short, you need to work on yourself and stop blaming the color of your skin for your troubles.

 

[dannyboys]

Maxine Waters has it all figured out. She lives about forty miles from her 'constituents' ,
She lives in a fucking mansion in a gated community.
Hey Maxine! James Brown's family wants you to call them.

 

[IM2]

The Jews had to endure far more than black folks, but they don't be like:

"Ohhhhhh woe is me!!! I demand reparations and stufff.....wahhhhh!!!...."

Suck it up, buttercup.

Not true.

 

[IM2]

Why are the majority of your post blatant race baiting? You are clearly very insecure, and I think you attribute your insecurity to the color of your skin. But that’s not the reason you’re insecure. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, and everything to do with your own self worth. In short, you need to work on yourself and stop blaming the color of your skin for your troubles.

This is not race baiting.

December 7, 1993...The "Black Rage" Mass Murderer Terrorized the New York Commuters

That is race baiting.

If I was insecure i'd be like you, a person who only posts in majority white racist forums so you hear what you so desperately need to hear.

So work on yourself chump, because I am just fine.

 

[IM2]

All those " communities" under liberal control for decades.

Think a person could connect the dots rather easily.

Every back person doesn't live in a city controlled by liberals.

Since that's not so, it appears that you haven't seen any dots.

 

[IM2]

No human passes through life without trauma-potential events.

"Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it (Kumashiro, 2009; LaDuke, 2009). We are th e least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences (King, 1991). At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism.Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience (Chinnery, 2008). This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as “people just need to see each other as individuals” or “see each other as humans” or “take personal responsibility.”

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue (DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2009)."

Dr. Robin DiAngelo

 

[IM2]

Your white paper (oops was that Racist?) fails in the first sentence. "African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover."

The dangers that Blacks face today are nearly all related to the conditions in poor communities and Inner Cities and/or poor decisions like deciding to sell drugs or join a gang. The living conditions in Inner Cities are the result of policies implemented by LBJ and Bill Clinton. The poor decisions are largely the result of the near 75% abandonment rate of Black men and their children.

Wrong.

Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
By Charles M. Blow

One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.

It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”

There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.

Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”

Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.

Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

 

[IM2]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

Why don’t they move back to Africa? Problem solved.

But we know they won’t. No free welfare and they know living in ”poverty” in America is a thousand times better than living anywhere in Africa.

When you move back to Europe, I'll consider it.

Though White Americans Benefit Most From Social Safety Net, Study Shows How Racial Resentment Can Fuel Welfare Opposition

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites

But we know they won’t. No free welfare and they know living in ”poverty” in America is a thousand times better than living anywhere in Europe.

 

[IM2]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

Stop whining and get a job.

You'd think that such a superior high IQ white boy could find a new comeback.

 

[petro]

All those " communities" under liberal control for decades.

Think a person could connect the dots rather easily.

Every back person doesn't live in a city controlled by liberals.

Since that's not so, it appears that you haven't seen any dots.

Blacks that live in a republican exurban county like mine don't come across as sniveling whining assholes either.

 

[well named]

I'm not sure if I'm just doing something idiotic but the link at the bottom of the OP is broken for me. I think it was probably copy/pasted from somewhere else that was shortening it (i.e. it contains ...)

 

[theHawk]

The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
African American Men and Boys Advisory Board
The Heinz Endowments
February 16, 2010
Walter Howard Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day. The usual suspects suck it up and love it because he validates their racism. The end has come now for Avery

ALL RISE! CLASS IS IN SESSION!

This class is sponsored by Pro Black University

The Honorable IM2, Professor Emeritus.

LESSON 1

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

A second way African Americans experience danger is witnessing harm and injury to other African Americans because of real or perceived racism. This secondary trauma is widely recognized in the child abuse treatment field and occurs to therapists that repeatedly experience the traumas of abused children. Repeatedly witnessing African Americans suffering on television news is painful, and for some triggers very strong emotion. For example, the Rodney King incident triggered very strong emotional reactions to a publically viewed altercation between police and an African American male. Of course, not every African American watching the incident on television is traumatized but some viewers experienced traumatic responses and needed to recover.

A third way African Americans experience danger related to race is living in difficult social conditions because of poverty and race, and traumatic events occur because of these conditions. Segregation by race and social class is common in the United States, and very common in the Pittsburgh region. Living in black and poor neighborhoods increases one’s risk of experiencing traumatic events like community violence, police incidents, and domestic violence, and it increases the risk of experiencing secondary traumas in witnessing these dangers. These communities are socially isolated, monitored vigorously by police, have fewer resources for daily living (food stores, gasoline stations, hardware stores), and have high levels of exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Poor responses to trauma are visible in large numbers of African Americans living in racially segregated neighborhoods. Some signs include:

• Increase aggression – Street gangs, domestic violence, defiant behavior, and appearing tough and impenetrable are ways of coping with danger by attempting to control our physical and social environment
• Increase vigilance and suspicion – Suspicion of social institutions (schools, agencies, government),avoiding eye contact, only trusting persons within our social and family relationship networks
• Increase sensitivity to threat – Defensive postures, avoiding new situations, heightened sensitivity to being disrespected and shamed, and avoid taking risks
• Increase psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships
• Increase alcohol and drug usage – Drugs and alcohol are initially useful (real and perceived) in managing the pain and danger of unresolved traumas but become their own disease processes when dependency occurs
• Narrowing sense of time – Persons living in a chronic state of danger do not develop a sense of future, do not have long-term goals, and frequently view dying as an expected outcome

www.heinz.org/.../ImpactOfRacialTraumaOnAfricanAmericans.pdf

Why don’t they move back to Africa? Problem solved.

But we know they won’t. No free welfare and they know living in ”poverty” in America is a thousand times better than living anywhere in Africa.

When you move back to Europe, I'll consider it.

Though White Americans Benefit Most From Social Safety Net, Study Shows How Racial Resentment Can Fuel Welfare Opposition

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites

But we know they won’t. No free welfare and they know living in ”poverty” in America is a thousand times better than living anywhere in Europe.

I do live in Europe.

Your argument contradicts itself, you claim we’re against welfare for racial reasons, yet point out that most people on welfare are white.

 

[Meathead]

I do live in Europe.

Your argument contradicts itself, you claim we’re against welfare for racial reasons, yet point out that most people on welfare are white.

Good. Tell IM2 that hee wwon't get any of the free stuff his family has relied on for genertions in Europe unless he comes from an actual 3rd-world shithole, which does not include the pockets of little shitholes where he comes from.