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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for this. Can you (or someone) address the question of reliving the trauma daily as an aspect of culture in contrast to others who witnessed similar hatred (not slavery, but see the earlier Japanese poster with living examples of similar legalized discrimination) but who don’t seem to wear it as a badge? Their experience is still very real - see Georgia yesterday. [/quote]
I’m the PP you’re replying to, and I have to say I find it offensive that you refer to descending from enslaved people as “a badge,” like it’s a conscious decision to don it, to think about yourself that way. I’m also the PP whose great grandpa killed himself and I can assure you that I don’t consciously think about that, but it informs who I am. And that was [i]one[/i] trauma, a hundred years ago, and there was no societal machine that made that happen.

Again, short of the genocide perpetrated on the Native Americans, there is no other American counterpart to what was done to Black people here. That doesn’t make the very real bigotry against Asians and the violence they face right now any less real or traumatic, but in scale and scope, it’s just not the same.

I don’t know if you’re intending to try and compare the two, but there are those people who bring up prejudice and violence against Asians as a means of trying to tell Black people to just get over it. I don’t think you’re doing that, but you might want to be aware that that is a cudgel used against Black people sometimes. [/quote]

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