The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans

[Wyatt earp]

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

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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

Oh joy! Another thread on racism from USMBs leading racist.

This is AFTER we elected a black guy as President. Granted he was born in Kenya and unfamiliar with our customs, laws, history or even how many States we had, but he was black

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No human passes through life without trauma-potential events.

^ this

 

[AveryJarhman]

#TheLargerIssue #SingleParenting #Fatherlessness #ChildNeglectMaltreatment #MentalHealth #Solutions

The poor decisions are largely the result of the near 75% abandonment rate of Black men and their children.

Hello, MM. Black men have not abandoned children they DID NOT WANT in the first place.

FACT is, after kicking men out of the home in the 60s-70s, and adopting Uncle Sam or Child Support Payments as their children's provider, the *Average* (*see Erika's video) black American woman prefers to SELFISHLY condemn her offspring to a FATHERLESS Childhood, Teen and ADULT life.

"Lamenting Multiple Baby Daddies"



"Black women are destroying themselves and black men" ~BlacksUnited - Erika, Published on Mar 7, 2014



Peace.

 

[AveryJarhman]

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.

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[there4eyeM]

Dying is an expected outcome for any observant human.
Life contains suffering. Birth itself is excruciating, and not just for the mother.
It is the common lot of all of us.
Some adapt more appropriately than others.

 

[AveryJarhman]

Avery Jarhman spams and trolls his bullshit every day.

Hello, IM2. Is this bullsh!t...

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My friend, is this spam...

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Peace.

 

[AveryJarhman]

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

The usual suspect? Huh?

FACT is, very few USMB members reply to or acknowledge my writings. LOL!

Have a great Tuesday, my friend.

Peace.

 

[MarathonMike]

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

You are just regurgitating the 50 year old narrative pushed by the true American Racists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Calling out the deplorable destruction of the Black American family is itself Racist. How on Earth does that make sense? Why do you play the denial card in the face of undeniable evidence?

 

[dannyboys]

Name another 'race' where over 75% of the males who 'father' children within that race abandon the mothers before the child is even born.
If you are a negro female who hasn't had a baby by age fourteen the community thinks there's something wrong with you.

 

[Godboy]

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.

Are you smoking crack again? Jews had it WAYYYYYYYY worse than blacks.

 

[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.

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.

No, it doesn't.

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

 

[IM2]

Name another 'race' where over 75% of the males who 'father' children within that race abandon the mothers before the child is even born.
If you are a negro female who hasn't had a baby by age fourteen the community thinks there's something wrong with you.

Since that does not happen, try again.

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.”

Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

 

[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.

Are you smoking crack again? Jews had it WAYYYYYYYY worse than blacks.

Never did smoke crack. Jews have not endured more than blacks. Jews are not a race. And Jews got reparations. So suck it up, buttercup.

 

[IM2]

Internalized racism is a form of internalized oppression, defined by sociologist Karen D. Pyke as the "internalization of racial oppression by the racially subordinated."[In her study The Psychology of Racism, Robin Nicole Johnson emphasizes that internalized racism involves both "conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy in which whites are consistently ranked above People of Color."These definitions encompass a wide range of instances, including, but not limited to, belief in negative racial stereotypes, adaptations to white cultural standards, and thinking that supports the status quo (i.e. denying that racism exists).

In her book, What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, Robin DiAngelo describes the cycle of racism as a feedback loop that uses power, control, and economics to go from (1) systematic mistreatment of a group to creation of misinformation to, (2) societal acceptance of misinformation to, (3) internalized oppression and internalized dominance to, (4) racism perpetuated and enforced by institutions, leading to, (4) justification for further mistreatment. In other words, internalized racism is involved in reinforcing racism, and ensuring that it continues. It creates a justification for continued mistreatment of the racially subjugated. Additionally, it can create an acceptance of the status quo, leading some to conclude that racism is not an issue that needs to be addressed.[3] If members of racially oppressed groups internalize the validity of their own oppression, they have no reason to contest the system. Internalized racism can also be seen as a means of "dividing and conquering" racially subordinate groups to create conflicts between them and suppress united efforts to contest racism.

Internalized racism - Wikipedia

Avery Jarhman is an example of a black person suffering from internalized racism. He and all his so called sucessful people of African American descent.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Yeah, fuck you. You're black, you're American. Get over it.

 

[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.

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

There aren't any blacks anywhere sounding like that.

 

[Indeependent]

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

Suck a dick and get a job.

 

[IM2]

Yeah, fuck you. You're black, you're American. Get over it.

Kiss my ass. You whites are all here whining daily about how unfair life is for you. So you can go chew on rocks..

 

[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

Suck a dick and get a job.

You do that and I'll keep working on my projects and get paid.