Carlil Pittman experiments el trauma en carne propia. As co-founder of the Chicago Juvenile Organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, lamented the death of Delmonte Johnson, a barren youth activist, two years old, victim of the phenomenon of firm combat: violence with arms.
It irritates and frustrates the constant histories of afroestadounidenses that morian a manos of the police.
First came Breonna Taylor, a young black girl in her Louisville, Kentucky home, in March of that year. Liege George Floyd, failed because a police officer supported a gun on his well in Minneapolis, did not protest all over the world. In the last ten days, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, was shot dead by a detainee during a maneuver in Minnesota, a short distance from the Floyd mansion site.
The Pittman passed just before the start of a joint demonstration with other activists to protest the death of a 13-year-old Hispanic, Adam Toledo, during police raids.
“Every now and then we watch television, we see Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and we see people like us who care about nothing,” said Pittman, activist of A New Deal For Youth. ‘Geen normal ver que alguien es assesinado al hacer Klik en’ n video en tu teléfono. But for us, in our black and Spanish communities, it is the norm ”.
Many Afroestadounidenses are a collective trauma species that aggravates each time a member of that community is at the behest of the police. Some are reflected in the victims of police violence, which will aggravate the pain they suffer. The collective duo alerts professionals at the medical camp, considering that the racism and trauma that are causing a serious public health crisis in the United States.
The racial trauma that afflicted afroestadounidenses is not new. It is a product of oppressive systems and racist practices that are very popular throughout the nation. Racial trauma is something that minors who are victims of racism and discrimination experience, says Dr. Steven Kniffley, a psychologist and coordinator at the Center for Collective Attention at the University of Spalding in Louisville, Kentucky.
“Many cities are suffering because racial trauma is a public health crisis,” said Kniffley, who can cause suicide, reduce life expectancy and provoke post-traumatic stress disorder. The racial trauma responds to “the unique experiences that blacks and Hispanics live by their identity and, more specifically, by the racism and discrimination that strikes”.
Kniffley says that every generation of Afroestadounidenses since the era of slavery has introduced distinct combinations of racism and discrimination, which are manifested in an intergenerational form of trauma ”.
“We have 10 or 15 generations of traumas that have no results, that contribute well to the biological and mental health problems that we have now,” Kniffley said, adding that the trauma did not respond solely to police violence.
A 2018 study on the impact of the deaths of African Americans in the wake of the revelation of the policy that this phenomenon affects the mental health of this community. If the African Americans who respond to this are empathetic to one or more of the members of that community disarmed in their states, they will correct the voice in the print media.
“This impact is perceived only between blacks,” said Dr. Atheendar S. Venkataramani, one of the study’s authors, who works at the Presbyterian Medical Center Penn of Philadelphia.
Rashad Robinson, president of Kleur van Verandering (The color of change), says that this trauma feeds dissonance in police bodies. And many are experimenting with additional emotional anguish over the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who pushed his rod into Floyd’s well.
“We are all armed people who need to be protected and served and who do not have one or the other,” said Robinson. “For sobrevivir, we will integrate into a system with a brutal structure … for our lives, our dignity, our health. What a collective impact on the large space ”.
Eréndira Martínez, who lives in a barren Spanish town of Chicago, Little Village, says that suffers enormously with the death of chicos like Toledo.
The passing games, however, have been distributed for the first time in the video of the death of Toledo, a year of 17 years walled in the same barrier. One of Martínez’s teenage girls also went to a ballroom in Little Village in December.
“We entered my house and one of my despairs was entering this chic that I had created with me,” Martinez said. “Ninguna madre debería tener que enterrar su su hija”.
Some groups of people tried to help overcome the trauma, signaled Aswad Thomas, of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, who administers the organization Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, a network of more than 46,000 suspects, delinquent Hispanics and Afroestadounidenses.
Uzodinma Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, New York, says the afroestadounidense community’s roadblocks are all over the place. Think of the times he and his men went to the police. Or he saw an agent insulting him. The amount of veces that rogaron to sell to salvo of a situation. Ervarings todas que algunos blancos ignoran a sabiendas.
“The United States has a long way to go before it can recognize that there is no peace in the work, the song, the south and the laws of black people,” Iweala said.