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Do you guys ever wonder when God will just throw a big rock at earth?

Originally Posted by ForemanRules

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
addressed at MAAFA Commemoration
Donna Lamb October 4, 2004

Among the many fine presentations offered at the 10th Annual MAAFA Commemoration held throughout the month of September by the St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York was an excellent session by Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary, Assistant Professor at Portland State University. In it, she laid out her theory of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), explaining what it is, how it's been passed down through the generations, and its ongoing ill effects on the Black community today. She made a clear case for the need to identify PTSS so it can be dealt with, because, as she stated, "We can't heal what we don't understand."

Leary's concept is based on the theory of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is firmly accepted by the psychiatric establishment. It's now taken as a given that there are people who will need treatment for the ongoing damage they suffered psychologically from the trauma of experiencing or witnessing life-threatening events such as military combat, a terrorist attack, natural disaster, serious accident or a violent personal assault, including rape.

People afflicted with PTSD, Leary explained, often relive the experience through nightmares and flashbacks. They may have difficulty sleeping, be irritable, have outbursts of anger, exaggerated startle responses and feel estranged from others. Their ability to function in social, work or family life is also impaired. This includes having trouble holding down a job, marital problems and difficulties in parenting.

As Leary also pointed out, PTSD is not a new disorder; there are written accounts of similar symptoms going back to ancient times. During the Civil War, there was documentation of a PTSD-like disorder known as "Da Costa's Syndrome". Following the Second World War and every war since, countless combat veterans have been treated for "shellshock". Both are now recognized as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Nor is it new to look at this trauma theory in a collective way, applying it to people as a group, such as the Indigenous Peoples or Jewish Holocaust survivors, who suffered historical injuries.

The thing that is new - and very much needed - is the application of this theory to Africans who were enslaved in American and to their descendants. That is what Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary has brought to the table with her identification of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.

It is her contention that African Americans today are badly affected by past centuries of slavery in this country because the original enslaved Africans were never treated for the severe trauma of being degraded, beaten and abused, seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed, being forced to breed and having their babies taken from them, and all the other unspeakably horrible things that occurred during slavery.

Even after slavery officially ended, nothing was done to help Blacks recover from the trauma resulting from it. In fact, as Leary illustrated, the traumatizing circumstances continued - and one might even say increased - with the Black Codes, peonage, sharecropping, lynchings, Jim Crow laws and all the other things that, for all practical purposes, kept Blacks in bondage.

Even with the passage of the civil rights acts of the 1960s, Leary explained, no measures were put in place to help African Americans cope with all they had suffered, and to rectify the damage that the maltreatment had done to them mentally, spiritually and physically over many generations. Plus, today Blacks in America still face racism, oppression and societal inequality. "There was never a period of time when Africans in this nation were given the permission or the wherewithal to heal from our injury, so the trauma has continued," she stated.

Leary brought across how you don't have to be the direct victim of a horrible occurrence to be traumatized by it. That was clear after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon when people all over the nation were traumatized even though they, themselves, were nowhere near either event.

She showed how attitudes and behaviors resulting from trauma can be passed down from generation to generation without people even being conscious of doing it. She also broke down for her listeners how survival techniques developed during slavery have been carried down inter-generationally, even when they were no longer needed, to the detriment of the Black community.

She addressed some of the specific difficulties among African Americans and illustrated how they are symptoms of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome. She showed, for instance, how various problems between Black men and women today have their origin in slavery, and how the "Crabs in a Barrel Syndrome" as it's been called, is a leftover from coping mechanisms begun when some enslaved Africans were made over-seers of others working in the fields.

There was much food for thought presented during Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary's gripping two-hour presentation. Certainly everyone went away with important new information to ponder and digest.

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Originally Posted by SuperFlex

Do you guys ever wonder when God will just throw a big rock at earth?

Almost every day...

I said it before and I'll say it now:

If I'm going to catch shit for being a slave owner, then where's my slave!

Originally Posted by DOMS

I said it before and I'll say it now:

If I'm going to catch shit for being a slave owner, then where's my slave!

Dude, we have to turn that into a T-shirt. We would make millions by selling them to guys like this:

Originally Posted by DOMS

I said it before and I'll say it now:

If I'm going to catch shit for being a slave owner, then where's my slave!

Originally Posted by SuperFlex

Do you guys ever wonder when God will just throw a big rock at earth?

Hi Super,

Actually since He knows all we are told and is all powerful I would think He would know the answer to that question.

Take Care, John H.

Originally Posted by John H.

Hi Super,

Actually since He knows all we are told and is all powerful I would think He would know the answer to that question.

Take Care, John H.

I'm sure he does John. It's pretty wild that it's so common on other planets and yet so very rare here on earth. What we have is nothing short of amazing! As busy as he must be, I guess he must still look in on us every now and then. Thankfully....... When he glances my way, I can only hope to find favor... We should all hope for the same.

You take care as well John.

Originally Posted by John H.

Hi Super,

Actually since He knows all we are told and is all powerful I would think He would know the answer to that question.

Take Care, John H.

john h are u as gay as foreman told me u were , he said u were super gay and that he knows too well how gay u really are

Originally Posted by SuperFlex

I'm sure he does John. It's pretty wild that it's so common on other planets and yet so very rare here on earth. What we have is nothing short of amazing! As busy as he must be, I guess he must still look in on us every now and then. Thankfully....... When he glances my way, I can only hope to find favor... We should all hope for the same.

You take care as well John.

True Story, he's makin' his list, he's checkin' it twice..

I will be the first to squash this


Post traumatic stress disorder is a condition that occurs when
soldiers return home from some time spent fighting in a war

In order for someone to complain about Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
They would first have to go off and have served as a slave
Then return home and notice the disorder

Since slavery has been abolished for well over 100 years
and know one I know of in the US is over 100 years old...

Then no one could have spent any time as a slave (in the US)
And not having been a slave, it would be impossible to have a disorder
caused by being made a slave

Put Simply
No Slaves = No Slave Disorder... Capisci!?



On the bright side any slavs who may have suffered
in the past, have received compensation for their
duty... Its called freedom... You don't have to thank me for
it, I didn't write it, my families weren't even in this
country at the time... Were yours?

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

No Slaves = No Slave Disorder

Blacks + Race Card = Less Work + Less Self Responibility

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

I will be the first to squash this


Post traumatic stress disorder is a condition that occurs when
soldiers return home from some time spent fighting in a war

In order for someone to complain about Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
They would first have to go off and have served as a slave
Then return home and notice the disorder

Since slavery has been abolished for well over 100 years
and know one I know of in the US is over 100 years old...

Then no one could have spent any time as a slave (in the US)
And not having been a slave, it would be impossible to have a disorder
caused by being made a slave

Put Simply
No Slaves = No Slave Disorder... Capisci!?



On the bright side any slavs who may have suffered
in the past, have received compensation for their
duty... Its called freedom... You don't have to thank me for
it, I didn't write it, my families weren't even in this
country at the time... Were yours?

Hmmmm you drive a valid point home but....

Foreman refers to all of us as "slaves" on a routine basis. Following HIS logic we all qualify for this "disorder"

I want my check!!

Originally Posted by aceshigh

john h are u as gay as foreman told me u were , he said u were super gay and that he knows too well how gay u really are

John has explained that he is bi. He is also intelligent, helpful and nice. That is probably why he ignored your ignorant post. Deuche bag.

This woman has a PHD? First PTSD is not a genetic disorder... Second, America is all of 230 years old slavery ended in 1870's? so America basically only allowed slavery for 100 years hardly enough time for a mental disorder to ingrain itself in the hardwiring of a few generations. Second alot of those slaves were treated very well and probably suffered no disorder, like George Washington's right hand man who was more like his butler than a slave. In fact George Washington made in his will that all 300+ of his slaves received freedom after Martha died. That means he probably only had slaves on his plantation for 50 years then they were freed, in fact alot of slaves in the north had been freed very early in the 1800's so how do we prove which slaves had been freed early and suffered no Trauma, and which ones did???? Is there a genetic marker for this??????


Yeah cram that up your ass with your PHD's bitches! I'm going to start calling myself Dr. Manic Lion from now on cause if any idiot can get a doctorate then by all means I should just be handed one for owning them....

not slave owning....just you know Pwnzer P0wnt...