Son's Life Sends Strong Message ( WHAT IS POST TRAUMATIC SLAVERY DISORDER? )

HometownAnnapolis.com ^ | March 06, 2008 | Recipient of R.E.S.P.E.C.T, Inc

[fight_truth_decay]

I t was two weeks ago that I received a phone call from my son. He is a college student so when the telephone rings and I see his number there are always two immediate feelings. First, I hope that everything is all right as he attends college in Baltimore, a hotbed of crime and violence, or, second, how much money does he need. Once I hear his voice and know that he is OK, I can most certainly guarantee that the call is for money. That's when I give the telephone to his father.

This call two weeks ago was very different. He sounded OK and he did not want money. In his deep voice, he said: "Ma, what are you doing?"

I told him and I asked him the same. He said he just wanted to talk to his mother. After a few exchanges, he said: "Ma, do you remember Mike Matlock from the neighborhood that used to come to the house?"

He continued: "Mike, Jamon and I would go out sometimes."

I said: "Of course, you all were so handsome together I knew wherever you were going the girls would be in trouble."

We laughed. Then he said: "Ma, Mike is gone" and I asked what he meant by that. He explained that Mike had been killed by a roadside bomb while serving his country in Iraq. There was silence for a minute and I asked my son if he was OK. We talked a while longer and we hung up.

As I went over our conversation, I wept, first because a life so young, determined to make his mark in this world as a soldier in America's Army, had taken away. I wept for his mother as I could not imagine the grief that she was experiencing from the loss of her son, and I wept for the hundreds of thousands of African- American mothers over the history of this country that have lived in fear for the life of her son and her determination to give him opportunities and to have his life mean something in this place we call home - the United States of America.

It was just a few months ago that my brother asked me to be a guest on his radio program in Richmond, and the subject of the discussion was the Willie Lynch letters. It has been said by a number of historians that this slave owner who came from the West Indies during the 1700s did not exist. However, black historians dispute this and believe strongly that his letters and tactics were used in creating slave life in America. During the radio program we talked about the slave mother and her son and the tactics shared by Lynch to Virginia and Maryland slave owners in an effort to create slave life in America for 300 years if not 1000. I read from his letters, in particular the breaking of the slave mother.

Lynch talked about having the slave mother witness her son being torn apart by two horses, or whipping her son within an inch of his life. He said: "By her being left alone, unprotected, with the "male image destroyed" the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her male and female offspring in reversed roles. For fear of the young male's life, she will psychologically train him to be mentally weak and dependent, but physically strong. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her female offspring to be psychologically independent… Continually, through the breaking of uncivilized savage slaves, by throwing the female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves."

Last Thursday I sat with my son and my daughter in First Christian Community Church, as we celebrated the life of Specialist Micheal Matlock, Jr. We listened to our governor, Martin O'Malley, who had ordered the flags in the State of Maryland to be flown at half mast. We listened to the powerful eulogy delivered by Associate Pastor Kiapha Downs. We watched as the U.S. Army presented this grieving family the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals. We looked on at his casket draped with the American flag, and as I remembered my own family's service to this country from the Civil War and the story about my great uncle Charles Phelps who died during World War I serving in the Navy whose body was delivered to his mother's doorsteps on South Street, I wept.

Specialist Micheal Matlock Jr. made a mockery of Willie Lynch as he is the phenomenon that Lynch and the institution of slavery feared. Specialist Matlock had both male and female images in his life. Specialist Matlock made the ultimate sacrifice for a country that at one time had men that looked like him, enslaved, drawn and quartered, whipped and lynched. He made a choice.

In his honor we must raise up our African-American boys with positive male images, if not in the home then in the community. We, the mothers of this village, must raise them to understand that education and service to others and their communities will be the phenomena to reverse the Willie Lynch Syndrome and end post traumatic slavery disorder in America.

The proof: Fewer homicides, the reduction of our males entering the America's new plantation - jails and penitentiaries, and an increase in their presence in institutions of higher learning.

To the wife of Specialist Micheal Matlock, ours prayers are with you and your one-year-old son - we know that he will be raised by the village

[fight_truth_decay]

Being the "typical white person", I plead guilty on being ignorant to a psychological disorder which befalls far too many in the Black community: Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder (PTSD). I first heard of this Syndrome today when a female listener made an "attitude" call to a talk radio show host(Beck, I believe)siding with the teachings of Rev. Wright and why so many of the Black community, like herself, understand how slavery still in 2008 effects their daily lives. Why they respond to his sermons as they do. Asked if she was angry at all white people who had nadar to do with slavery, she said no; but felt she too suffered from the psychological effects effects of slavery of her ancestors. The host unable to carry on an exchange of ideas with the caller, gave up and said he too was suffering from a disorder: Post Traumatic Irish Potato Famine Disorder (1840's).

The female caller then looked down upon the host and dismissed him for his complete and utter ignorance of PTSD. She did inform the host of the intellectual compilations of DR. JOY DEGRUY-LEARY, author of “”Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing“. Dr. Joy is presently on speaking engagements in Canada and the United States. Her Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Workbook will be made available in 2008! They say Timing is everything!

Entering Dr. Joy Leary's website you are greeted with these black and white emotional visuals of the horrors of slavery accompanied with tones only described as "musical dispair".

A well versed blogger on PTSD, midsouthblack, entitled his page: Are You Suffering From Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?

He writes: "Could the brothers and sisters have a new excuse when they want to call in sick at work or school? Tell the boss that I can’t make it today because I am suffering from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome! On a more serious note, I can attest that we as a people still suffer from the vestiges of slavery and many of the problems in our community are remnants of the horrible institution of slavery! This is not meant to be an attack post at all, but it is a call for all races of people to practice racial sensitivity!" The poster then ran the YouTube Roots excerpt found here.(Roots) slave, Kunta Kinte, is shown whipping another young black slave til he finally responds his owner's given name: Toby.

Another expert given on this subject was Dr. Na’im Akbar who says: "The Primary objective of freeing the Black mind is to change the consciousness of black people." Akbar says: "The process of human slavery is ultimately a psychological process by which the mind of a people is gradually brought under the control of their captors and they become imprisoned by the loss of the consciousness (awareness) of themselves. His message is clear and simple, yet provocative and well grounded: Black people in America are "crazy."(My note: Perhaps explains Rev. Wright) Not so much individually, but culturally"

Dr. Akbar is set to lecture through 2008 at various universities and churches as well.

Websites have put up polls asking : "Do We Need A Reparations March On Washington? If "yes" ,"no".. Please Click Here to help organize march."

Seems Obama has lost control of his campaign because of his lack of knowledge on this highly emotional disorder, PTSD.

[w1andsodidwe]

Seems Obama has lost control of his campaign because of his lack of knowledge on this highly emotional disorder, PTSD.

But how can this be? Obama's father was Kenyan and his mother a white American. He has no connection to slavery save for the fact the most slaves were black and he is half black. What am I missing?

[MPJackal]

I guess being a typical white guy, I don't see how that explains all the black on black violence, 70% illegitimacy rate, and on and on. I am so sick of racist blacks that want to pin their lazy, entitlement, victim-hood mentality on whites when their real problem looks them in the mirror everyday.

[MPJackal]

“slave life in America for 300 years if not 1000”

So Native Americans owned slaves? If you want to see where slavery has existed for over a thousand years, look to Africa. Hell, they still practice it today. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good pity party.

[stinkerpot65]

Blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism.

Racism, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, racism.

[fight_truth_decay]

Correction: Kunta Kinte aka Toby. I constructed that thought wrong, Toby was being whipped by the so ordered black slave under the direction of an overseer. While inside the plantation home the owner prepares his Sunday sermon.

[fanfan]

he too was suffering from a disorder: Post Traumatic Irish Potato Famine Disorder (1840's)

LOL!

Exactly.

[PeterPrinciple]

He has no connection to slavery save for the fact the most slaves were black and he is half black. What am I missing?

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His ancestors might have been slave traders?

...”The Arabs encouraged the powerful groups to conquer their weaker neighbors and sell them into slavery. The slaves were then forced to the coast and on to Zanzibar to be traded.”....

http://www.jambokenya.com/jambo/kenya/history5.htm

[hsalaw]

It’s so sad that this brave American soldier was killed while trying to bring freedom to the oppressed in Iraq, when American citizens refuse to accept the freedoms we have here and the responsibilities that go with them. I guess I’m just a typical white person who believes you make the most of the life God gave you and not wallow in useless self-pity about something that happened 300 or 1000 (?) years ago.

[Verloona Ti]

"Lynch talked about having the slave mother witness her son being torn apart by two horses, or whipping her son within an inch of his life. He said: "By her being left alone, unprotected, with the "male image destroyed" the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her male and female offspring in reversed roles. For fear of the young male's life, she will psychologically train him to be mentally weak and dependent, but physically strong. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her female offspring to be psychologically independent… Continually, through the breaking of uncivilized savage slaves, by throwing the female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves."

If "he" in this quote is supposed to be Lynch, an alleged 18th century man, then the fraud is exposed : The quote is full of pure psycho babble, such as did not exist till the very tail end of the 19th century at the earliest.If those are truly supposed to be the exact words "Lynch" used ina letter written in the 18th century-"psychologically dependent", "submissive", "male image"-then the only so called black historians who could take such nonsense seriously must be of the same ilk as those who have ancient Egyptians flying helicopters.

I've read and reread that passage, and it really looks like she thinks she's quoting from an actual letter written in the 1700s. I'm sorry about her son-but mama's an idiot.

[DallasDeb]

The proof: Fewer homicides, the reduction of our males entering the America's new plantation - jails and penitentiaries, and an increase in their presence in institutions of higher learning.

Never happen as long as pastors like Wright continue with their hatemongering. The Black Liberation Theologians (BLTs) will be out of work--they can't let that happen.

The BLTs think that today's prisons are nothing more than the equivalent of concentration camps. They believe blacks are singled out for crimes they didn't commit and that the three-strikes laws were established to validate putting more blacks in jail for a very long time. I am so sad to think that many blacks believe in the nonsense preached by the BLTs.

For a few years now, I have been wondering about the racial tension in this country--not understanding what was stoking it. Now I know. And the Democrats are largely to blame because they have encouraged the belief in racism on the part of whites, in particular Republicans, to justify the black "condition."

Maybe it's a good thing that all of this has come out through Obama, so we know what they truly believe. Maybe we will find ways to invalidate their rhetoric. But I fear that we are headed for riots and worse if Obama doesn't get elected.

[fight_truth_decay]

Obama would close down Abu Ghraib prison. Gen. McPeak, advisor, has advised it be bulldozed yesterday and a garden planted. Or it will remain, he says, to be seen evermore in the history books pictorially in years to come for young Arab boys to see. This will lead to another syndrome, I am sure. Sort of a parallel in the thinking here. I predict.

[barb-tex]

Also osamobama was raised by his typical white racist Grandmother when his typical african-african father, (but not racist) and typical racist modern white mother abandoned him.
barbra ann

[fanfan]

I'm sorry about her son-but mama's an idiot.
Her son's childhood friend died, not her own son.

Anyway, she said.......Specialist Micheal Matlock Jr. made a mockery of Willie Lynch as he is the phenomenon that Lynch and the institution of slavery feared.

Specialist Matlock had both male and female images in his life. Specialist Matlock made the ultimate sacrifice for a country that at one time had men that looked like him, enslaved, drawn and quartered, whipped and lynched. He made a choice.

In his honor we must raise up our African-American boys with positive male images, if not in the home then in the community.

This lady has potential.

She makes more sense than Pastor (cough) Wright.

[Verloona Ti]

"Potential"? Maybe...But it still sounds to me like she believes there really was a William Lynch, and that the letter she quoted is authentic. I'm sorry, but if-IF-that is the actual text of a letter being passed off as the work of an 18th century man, even one well educated by the standards of his day....I wouldn't have fallen for it as a high schooler. The language is simply too mid 20th century, and quite obviously so.

[Verloona Ti]

But I meant to add that I agree with her about honoring the friend’s sacrifice, and on raising boys well, with healthy male images-but I honestly just don’t see how she can NOT see that the letter is a fraud. To me, it’s painfully blatant. How can there be
‘black historians’ who take the letter seriously, if-again, IF-what she quoted really is the letter’s text? My mind boggles.

[Centurion2000]

I wept for the hundreds of thousands of African- American mothers over the history of this country that have lived in fear for the life of her son and her determination to give him opportunities and to have his life mean something in this place we call home - the United States of America.

Racist bitch.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

PTSD

Put that S^#t down !

[maine-iac7]

Post Traumatic Irish Potato Famine Disorder (1840's

I've been thinking on this too.

My folks came over on the Mayflower - after having been persecuted and driven from their homes, arrested, jailed, hounded for many years before they finally made it to relative freedom - but still not entirely free -

Guess I should get my "reparations suit" together and sue England.

Sorry, I side with Bill Cosby and the thousands and thousands of other blacks that are vilified by the militants as "Uncle Tom's" - And I admire the hell out of them.

I suggest to those who are buying into this PTSD that they are being sold snake oil.

That's like saying that an descendant of a Civil War soldier - heck, let's make it more recent - let's make it a soldier who served in WW11 - that his descendant today suffers from shell shock.

I pose no black born in America today suffers from PTSD - but MLBSP (Militant Black BS Propaganda)

In the meantime, I'm glad my ancestors ended up here - otherwise, I would likely have been born in England - which is now so overrun with mooseslimes as to have lost it's grand old identity.

I wonder that more blacks don't wonder what their lives would be like had they been born in Africa?

[sitetest]

Dear Verloona Ti,

I went to the link in the article. It appears to be a site that purports to offer the actual text of a letter by this Mr. Lynch. The language that you pull out and cite for its anachronisms is actually in the text of the “letter” at this site.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic.

sitetest