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✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 22:34:55 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

If your ancestors' wildest dream was to be in the white house, your ancestors were always "in the house" to begin with.

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  ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 22:34:53 JST ✌🏿✍🏿
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  There's a reason why one of the biggest shifts during the COINTELPRO aftermath was to split the identity of Black people into "native" Black people and "migrant" or "foreign" Black people. Without actual solidarity, nothing can be achieved.
  
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  ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 22:34:54 JST ✌🏿✍🏿
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  Not everyone was a KANG or QWEEN, nor did everyone want to be free. Dr. Joy DeGruy talks about Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome (and she specifically writes about African Americans, the diaspora has its own issues; looking at folks like Adiche and her stances as well).
  If your identity can only be defined by that of your oppressor and is only limited of the dimensions of which they _permit_ you to exist, you're barely free in your mind. It's giving the praxis of "Plantation Theory": https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781953307606
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    Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
    
    Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary. The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs. The book was first published by Uptone Press in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2005, with a later re-release by the author in 2017. Post traumatic slave syndrome Expanding on a hypothesis of "post-traumatic slavery syndrome" (PTSS) by psychiatrist Alvin Francis Poussaint and journalist Amy L. Alexander, DeGruy wrote in her 2001 doctoral thesis that African Americans "sustained a traumatic injury as a direct result of slavery and continue to be injured by traumas caused by the larger society's policies of inequality, racism, and oppression"....
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