Posted on 02/03/2006 6:47:14 PM PST by Coleus
Some students at William Paterson University Thursday said they could see a correlation between the behavior of some students on campus and what a visiting professor called "post-traumatic slave syndrome."
Joy DeGruy Leary, an assistant professor of social work at Portland State University, presented more than a decade of research to a crowd of some 100 people at and concluded that generations of black families have been traumatized by the lingering effects of slavery. Her talk was the first in a series of Black History Month programs at the school.
Leary said she often hears blacks say that "good hair," or hair that is straight is more desired than "nappy hair," or curly hair.
"Why do we loathe the things that make us black?" she asked the audience. "These are socially learned behaviors."
Student Janelle Batson, 23, a junior, said she believes that lighter-skinned blacks on campus are sometimes seen as socially superior.
"This is something that is definitely affecting the black community on campus," she said.
Senior Dennis Wilson, 27, said "Many in our community are prone to dislike work because as slaves, we had to work long hours and weren't justly compensated."
Lawrence E. Mbogoni, Chair of African, African American and Caribbean Studies at William Paterson University, said in a telephone interview that the ramifications of slavery are still being felt to this day.
"What happens when someone is traumatized? They need to go through therapy," he said. "Freed slaves were never given any therapy after experiencing what they did."
Leary said drug use, high rates of incarceration, poverty, self-hate and the breakdown of the black family are symptoms that have not been eradicated from the culture.
"We are an incredible people, and a resilient people, but we have yet to heal," said Leary, who is black. "Cycles of oppression have left scars that have embedded themselves into our collective psyche."
Im not an expert but I listen to Dr. Drew Penski, hes an internist who specializes in addiction medicine, he has a nightly nationally syndicated radio show called Loveline.
Basically things that tramatize you as a child turn into sources of attraction as an adult. Also things that happened to you as a child, you end up doing to your children, unless you get treatment. For example 60% of children who were molested, end up becoming child molesters themselves. It can be summed up as you become your parents.
The same thing happens in all cultures. White trash in the south, same thing, theres a reason why so few of them change. Arab culture has the same thing going on.
If blacks want to talk about the effects of slavery they need look no further than the party blacks overwhelmingly vote for every election year, namely the treason party; The Demon-rats. The party that has only one mission for blacks which is to enslave them to government, to socialist programs, to demean them with racist concepts like affirmative action, a concept that would have them believe that they are less equal than everybody else, a party that has people like Bill Clinton and John Kerry who openly mock blacks by calling themselves "black Presidents", a party that has a former KKK memeber, a party whose highest ranking black in their last Presidential administration was a secretary who had to demean herself by making BJ appointments for interns.
BTW I'm not making excuses. The problem needs to end, and paying for these women to have tons of kids. Once you go from the young victim to being a teen age mother, you are now the victimizer, and societies problem.
Liberal policies break hearts and destroy lives. There's a tagline if I ever saw one.
I mean not paying for their children ^^^
"Student Janelle Batson, 23, a junior, said she believes that lighter-skinned blacks on campus are sometimes seen as socially superior."
And the darker skinned people on campus are often seen as victims that are held back.
I have a solution for this - raise taxes and elect Democrats...
slavery was wrong... but most slaves were treated fairly by their masters, and most slaves choose to stay and work for the same people who had previously owned them after they were freed.
I suspect the same proportion of slave owners mistreated their slaves as people today mistreat their dogs.
"slavery was wrong... but most slaves were treated fairly by their masters, and most slaves choose to stay and work for the same people who had previously owned them after they were freed.
I suspect the same proportion of slave owners mistreated their slaves as people today mistreat their dogs"
This is the single dumbest thing i have ever read on this forum.
Nonsense ... she just has to produce something to justify all the grant money she sucks up.
PLEASE tell me this is a joke!!!!! This PC/victimology nonsense has got to end, or our culture will go down the tubes like ancient Rome.....
Where's my compensation?
Oh, that's right. Never mind.
I would be willing to bet that not one of these 'traumatized' students are computer science, math, engineering or chemistry majors but ARE ethnic studies, black history, sociology or child development majors.
I would also be willing to bet that blacks who own their own businesses, are climbing the corporate ladder or marrying and raising kids DO NOT have this 'syndrome' because THEY'RE TOO BUSY BEING AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY.
As Homer would say: "Help me, Jeebus!"
What a crock!
My late uncle would have said--don't bring that crap up with me, my family came over in 1920.
For example 60% of children who were molested, end up becoming child molesters themselves.
Stats to back this claim up? This cannot possibly apply to females.
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