Thursday, April 27, 2006

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Here's the semi-contentious discussion I had with Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary, who came up with the Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome theory. She claims that, though not a clinical psychiatric disorder, generations of slavery caused continuing problems for generations of African-Americans. I challenged her on whether the solutions have to come from within the black community, or the blame should continue to be placed elsewhere.

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