Quote from: Tonkaman on August 17, 2019, 08:50:20 PM
Quote from: Omi on August 17, 2019, 08:39:30 PM
Quote600 years of death and cruelty
On face value, it's easy for a non-black person to wonder why black people, over a century removed from slavery, can still harbor such strong feelings just from watching a TV show. And, to be fair, I think we even wonder that about ourselves sometimes. It's a question that has been tackled by some of our greatest and most eloquent writers, but apparently it's also addressed by a component of our society that many of us never expected: science.
Dr. Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has conducted a depth of research into epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. In layman's terms, she is researching how serious incidents of trauma (i.e. slavery, holocaust, etc.) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be passed down through generations in shared family genes. Her research has revealed that when people experience trauma, it changes their genes in a very specific and noticeable way, so when those people have children and their genes are passed down to their children, the children also inherit the genes affected by trauma.
This an actual thing , not a hypothesis, its been studied over and over again, the health inequalities are unprecedented and only have been recognised by the wider medical committees

This is very much a real thing. It scares and amazes me, like their are really some people walkijg around with 100 of years of trauma attached to them and they're unaware and don't know how to break it.
!!! And this isn't just the trauma, it also affects our likelihood for certain diseases, diabetes, cancers, heart attacks ect
And black people are at the top of the chain when it comes to health inequalities
Lack of engagement with mental health, distrust with health authorities, unable.e to afford healthcare
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