"NOW, They Tell Us"
The "experts" (who want us to think they "know" everything) are now telling us that the specific tendency for blacks in the United States to exhibit higher levels of "anxiety" can be akin to a type of "permanent" PTSD; due to the racism that is latent in our society and institutions. That higher anxiety, aside from spawning higher levels of anger and depression, also informs our music, speech, dress, and myriad other manifestations that whites have capitalized on. Corresponding industries have formed over centuries that whites continue to control and profit from. That trend can be found throughout the Americas, and elsewhere on the planet where whites held colonies during their empiracal periods.
The controversial "Sermon" of Willie Lynch -- that Ten Commandments-style list of instructions for de-humanising slaves to make them more controllable -- is uniquely Christian and "new" world in substance. It epitomizes every account of slavery I have read, from Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Booker T. Washington, to now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lynch_speech. Read and reflect on that sermon, and you will understand the tie to PTSD. Reflect also on the countless millions of families that have been, and continue to be destroyed by this peculiarly Christian poison. It becomes clearer, then, that the current white corrollary, exhibited by hard-core supporters of the GOP, is so maddening.
Both recent issues of TIME and The Economist feature obituaries for Chinua Achebe, Nigerian "Literary Lion", dead at the age of 82. "The real question", he wrote, "is the dehuminisation of Africa and Africans which [an} age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world" writes The Economist. According to the white press, Achebe "discovered" this in the 1980's. Both accounts stress Achebe's "Christian" roots -- code for what??
The "T" in PTSD is, in this case, the "trauma" of our birth. So, go figure!! Study Phyllis Wheatley's poem from the 1700's. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/brought.html.
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