Friday, June 04, 2004

ALL DEM BLACKS IS FOREVER LOONY

According to this:

"A Portland lawyer says suffering by African Americans at the hands of slave owners is to blame in the death of a 2-year-old Beaverton boy.

Randall Vogt is offering the untested theory, called post traumatic slave syndrome, in his defense of Isaac Cortez Bynum, who is charged with murder by abuse in the June 30 death of his son, Ryshawn Lamar Bynum. Vogt says he will argue -- "in a general way" -- that masters beat slaves, so Bynum was justified in beating his son.

The slave theory is the work of Joy DeGruy-Leary, an assistant professor in the Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work. It is not listed by psychiatrists or the courts as an accepted disorder, and some experts said they had never heard of it.

DeGruy-Leary testified this month in Washington County Circuit Court that African Americans today are affected by past centuries of U.S. slavery because the original slaves were never treated for the trauma of losing their homes; seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed; and being subjugated by whites."

More here

Clayton Cramer comments: "Let's see: my ancestors (and only a few more generations ago) were abused as well-- although for reasons of social class, not race. Perhaps I can justify robbing banks with "post traumatic peasant syndrome.""

And I just may find it handy one day that two of my ancestors came to Australia in the 1820s chained up in the holds of ships. I even have an ancestral document connected with that here.

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