This evening I inked a page. It touches on what I call historical trauma--post-traumatic-stress-disorder that's passed on from generation to generation--as in the case of an entire ethnic group that is systematically brutalized. Anyway, sometimes it's hard to teach kids who are reeling from trauma.
I was thrilled to learn that I wasn't the only person who believes in the existence of historical trauma. Dr. Joy Degruy has studied the current effects of the enslavement of African Americans. She calls it Post-Traumatic-Slave-Syndrome.
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