I was reading an article about Black Lives Matter. You know, I believe they get the blunt effects of racial issues. This continues repeatedly. I recall reading in a magazine when I was very young.
I remember one story about a young black girl who had gotten all dressed up to go to a friend’s wedding event. Her family found her raped and dead, killed with her nylons wrapped around her neck. Right there in the bushes of her own home. She almost made it home. That magazine was full of stories like that.
Very depressing. But it explained to you how to be safe. After reading about these kinds of things does place doubt about being safe. With cameras everywhere now, I did see a video of a Mexican man being given extremely unnecessary force.
After police had him handcuffed and down on the ground, one of the other officers got his police dog out of the police car and directed it to bite on the Mexican man already cuffed and down on the ground and been held down by other officers.
I do have to admit that one of the officers holding this man down looked disturbed by the other officers’ stupid actions.
As much as we do need our police force, “one bad apple spoils the rest of the whole bunch” as an old saying says. I don’t remember who says this saying. “Pero, por uno los pagan los de mas.” Another saying in the Latino community. Translation: “Because of one person, we all have to pay.”
A lot of us, black or brown, get discriminated against enough. But too, if you are a smart woman no matter what color you are, many of us are being discriminated against. We are just not being paid our worth. A coworker looked up my wage and said I was being paid too much for my grade of education and announced it in a staff meeting.
Discrimination! Discrimination! everywhere. Will this ever end? The world is going through this repeatedly, everywhere!
Back to the title, “Do black people suffer more trauma?” and discrimination? YES! Especially from the older generation. They raise their children to be racist and their children teach their children and the “beat goes on” and on. Racism is taught. It just doesn’t happen.
This brings me to something that I remember when I was in junior high. I was walking home for lunch from school. A car stopped beside me and the white boys grabbed me by my hair and cleared their throats on my hair.
I pulled away crying. I ran inside my house and my mother helped me wash my hair she said, “I was so lucky.” I yelled out “LUCKY! In which way?” mom said, “They could have pulled you into the car and raped you, or worst, killed you afterward.” Yeah, ok, but I still did not feel lucky.
Many of us, have learned ways of surviving many circumstances or maybe, we have learned and taught ourselves just to survive and/or adapt to some of the societal ways so that our lives can continue.
Many Blessings.