Picking up...
Conspicuously absent from this agenda is a program of healing. Based on studies from the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychologist Omar G. Reid, of Pyramid Builders Associates in Massachusetts, has asserted that current conditions of many black Americans are linked to the long-term effects of slavery — a newly identified form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
These effects do not stem only from the direct trauma associated with being enslaved, but also from the lack of a centuries-old connection with a homeland; something that can be taken for granted — unless one is without it. A cultural connection provides grounding, strength and self-definition that can offset the damage done by external oppression.
Well.
We see here that progressives aren't the only ones trying to weave a new narrative. You can always tell a Black Conservative by their insistence we replace efforts to get some justice in life with "personal responsibility" instead of adding to the efforts to get justice…
Pointing out this uniquely black American phenomenon is not to excuse current behaviors due to a difficult past, because if a true leader were to emerge, she or he would do well to begin anew under the theme of personal responsibility. Individual responsibility becomes a collective strength, as much a part of the group dynamic as language, religion, values and other customs. Each person defining his or her own healing process is the first step in assuming that responsibility, like diagnosing an ill in order to find its appropriate treatment.
…and an effort to displace "so called leaders" with "true leaders" of their own philosophical extraction.
And they haven't actually done a bad job of weaving. It's clunky here and there but that's because they're jamming incompatible concepts together but to do it as well as they have takes quite a bit of skill.
Anyway. Healing.
A good idea, A necessary thing. If we're applying the right cures.
I've written many times on this, using Abraham Maslow's analyses as a framework. I would like to know what illnesses Messrs. Counts and Evans see, and what cures they envision. Because if I break your arm and bind it to you broken, the pain will stop and you'll be able to function with a right angle in the middle of your forearm. I wouldn't call that "healing," though.
