Comments on: Show 319: Dr. Joy Degruy Reacts to Conservative African Americans on Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.

By: seriousx1

seriousx1 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:06:59 +0000

I enjoyed reading your comments Amber Morgan in responce to TJ’s nonsense. It’s my opinion that racist people are mentally challanged people. Yes I am putting it mildly. To be blunt racism is an ideology that fosters mental retardation. Racism allows it adherents to not see the forest because of the trees. &, the racist really does not mind admiring the beauty of the trees although the racist does miss out on the magnificents of the forest.

By: Amber Morgan

Amber Morgan — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:20:45 +0000

To reference historical events in the Mediterranean, does not address the historical events in America. It is true, that many cultures around the world have experienced the role of being the oppressed or the oppressor. In America, not the Mediterranean, African slaves and their descendants were the oppressed. To assume the end of slavery, meant there was an end to the oppression, is ludicrous. The oppression is a vicious cycle that starts in childhood. TJ’s suggestions of “getting over it” and “not making excuses” is the idea of meritocracy where people think all you have to do is “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”!

I’ll end with this: a 5 yr old African American boy, walks into a public school system, where 80% of the teachers are white women with little to no understanding of his culture and and familial experiences. He then has to battle being labeled and segregated in special education because African Americans represent 12.6% in special ed and 12.8% of the population, while White Americans represent 8.8% in special ed and 79.8% of the population. He then has to deal with standardized tests that do not acknowledge the cultural values of African American students but instead the cultural values of middle class white students. As if that is not enough, that same public school system suspends African American students at a higher rate than white student with alarming disproportions. (In case you are unclear of my put, these are concrete examples of OPPRESSION)

If he is fortunate and able to avoid the systematic pitfalls, he then graduates into a society where he gets sits down at a computer and read a comment that tells him to “get over it”, “stop making excuses”, and give up penicillin…seriously?!

By: Mitch Ward

Mitch Ward — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:23:54 +0000

Denial on the part of white people is the problem. They put bush in office twice! Enough said!

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:26 +0000

see the new book on black north africans and moslems taking white european slaves 1500-1800 in the mediterranean. Where is the white/european PTSD? It doesnt exist. These historical grudges only exist within the individuals and groups that continue to dwell on them. All of human history is about the killers and the killed, the slavemasters and slaves, the absolute rulers and the ruled, the torturers and the tortured. Whether from the monguls killing a million in one city assault or from the germans killing millions of jews, or the romans and greeks or goths doing likewise, we all have ancestors who have been both. Learn from it, get over it, stop looking for excuses and instead determine what you need to do to be successful, and join the modern world or western civilization. If you think there is a culture you can copy that will give you more then please return the electric lights and air conditioning and the millions other marvels that have come from the european peoples and their decendants. We will relinquish the use of korean pottery and whatever great technology that originated in africa as long as you give up everything you got from the europeans and their decendants. You can start by giving up penicillin.