It is a shame that a woman who has done so much for society has yet to truly receive her due recognition for her contribution to Humanity. She is truly a champion.
That's because of they do they'll have to recognise all the countless other black historians and scholars which will change the social dynamics and consequently the status quo!
@Gregory James I heard you however, we MUST stop looking to the oppressor to VALIDATE Black People. They strive on mentally punishing Black People who are reaching/ begging for recognition. Most important than recognition let's overstand what our story is and reach for healing from the trauma. I believe HEALING is more important right now and it will elevate Black People to the next level where they are more than able to give themselves the Recognition they deserve.
Watching this again for the 3rd time, and it is more powerful every time! Dr. DeGruy is proof of why they never wanted Black people to know how to read!
@John Thijm Thijm I'm glad for all your efforts. Please let me know if you need help with any of this. Respond with time stamps and I'll explain her words to you if you need me to.
I'M READING UP ON BENJAMIN BANNEKER, A MAN WHO WAS AN ASTROPHYSICIST, SCIENTIST, MATHEMATICIAN, ETC. I READ SOMEWHERE THAT DUE TO HIS TALENT IN CARPENTRY AND HIS TALENT FOR BEING THE FIRST PERSON TO PERFECT TIME, (THE CLOCK), HE WAS ASKED BY THE ENGLISH MONARCHY TO DESIGN BIG BEN WHICH STILL STANDS IN LONDON. I'M SHOCKED TO READ ON WIKI THAT AT HIS FUNERAL, THERE WAS A FIRE AND ONLY ONE OF HIS JOURNALS SURVIVED. WHY WOULD HIS JOURNALS BE AT HIS FUNERAL? WHY WOULD HIS HANDWRITTEN WORKS NOT BE IN A SAFE PLACE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE? IS IT SO THAT NONE OF HIS WORKS CAN BE TIED BACK TO HIM BUT TO OTHERS OF POLITICAL STANDING COULD TAKE CREDIT FOR HIS WORKS?
Disagree as it traumatised Adults let alone our Futures . Also the protective context & measures for triggers need consideration in the institute instance. I was there!!!
There is no comparison it all was enslavement. So why do Caribbean ppl hate American blacks? Why dont you appreciate our fight here for your acceptance?
@drewav8r I'm also of Caribbean descent. My understanding of Caribbean history is that it was QUITE brutal. Yet for some reason, Caribbean people revolted, fought back A LOT despite or maybe BECAUSE of this brutality. Haiti achieved the ONLY successful slave revolt in the western hemisphere as far as I know.
@@kasnarfburns210 Yes, they fight back a lot, in some circumstances, the knowledge and understanding of the land helped with the fight. In America, the enslaved are shown as weak and downtrodden but there's many instances of revolts that are hushed. We are Brothers and Sisters who have been terribly effected by colonization. We are fighters because we are human. It's human nature to want to survive and flourish in peace. Our fight was and is the same. We will get through this because we come from some serious fighters.
I'm a black woman and was in D.C everyday on the train. About 9 times a white person would bump into me ( not a tap but a thump). They never said excuse me and when I said " the word is excuse me ", they acted surprised and like I was being extra. Reminds me of how she said they were taught that we have no feelings
The significant bias in Eurocentric academia initially dismissed this thesis until it was applied to Holocaust survivors and renamed Epigenetic Inheritance. We all need healing and and acknowledge the impacts of Post Colonial Cognitive Dissonance, considering the current environment.
Funny thing about the Holocaust survivors is the fact the Eberites/Hebrews left Mizraim-Egpty with dark skin during the Exodus & came back white... Yet the Bible clearly states only JUDAH would go into slavery into all 4 corners of the WORLD. Then America put the descendants of Japheth the converts not SHEM/Judah back in Isreal in 1948.
I'm a white female and the first time I watched this, I was initially a little put off, but I kept watching. I'm so glad I did! My eyes were opened by Dr Joy Degruy to issues I didn't know I even had... I was holding on to prejudices that I thought were just "fact" basicslly... I'm embarrassed by how ignorant I was before hand, because I would have never thought or believed that I had a single drop of racism in my body or mind. I've always thought of myself as kind and open minded and I never consciously judged someone for the color of their skin.. I realized there were some issues that had been programmed into the way I thought about black people, that I had to just get rid of. This is such a powerful speech and right now especially, I wish everyone in out country would sit down and watch this. ❤ I have so much respect for this brilliant, strong, black woman. This is my 3rd time watching this btw. I like come back and refresh myself from time to time. I genuinely can't express how much this opened my eyes.
YES. I have not watched this yet (am about to) but I totally understand where you're coming from. Explaining institutionalized white supremacy to a privileged white girl like me was like trying to tell a fish about water--it was so pervasive, and I only ever benefited from it, so I never had to think about it or even saw it. I was raised to be colorblind, to believe that racism was a thing of the past--and I wanted to believe that was the case. But we cannot fix what we refuse to see. Once I started listening; once I started looking at the U.S. through the lens of believing in institutional racism and privilege; once I started learning about it...OMG it changed my entire perspective on so many things. I see it *everywhere* now, and so much that needs to be fixed. It's not our fault, but it IS our problem, and it IS our responsibility. And we CAN do something about it.
@@whitneybailey9021 exactly. I get so offended about little things and people I'm around are like "who are you trying to impress?". Idc about impressing anyone, I can about seeing change. I knew I had some preconceived issues before watching this because I had started reading more about institutionalized racism and I started listening more to what my black friends were telling me, but this speech was a definite eye opener for sure. She has such an amazing way of breaking things down for everyone to actually be able to understand and grasp because alot of these topics are difficult for white people to see honestly. It's like explaining to men that sexism doesn't exist... he might see there are issues here and there but its hard to lay out everything in a way a man could see bc, well, he never has been and never will be a woman. And on that topic, Dr. Joy's intelligence and strength also has me In awe as a women. I love it, i love her. This country needs so many more strong black women and she is a model of that. ❤
Emily Reed Thank you for being courageous enough to continue to watch! Black Americans want so desperately for white people to hear us and see that all of us are being used by the greedy narcissist who don’t care who gets hurt by their lies. I’ve noticed that people get “put off” because of a tinge of personalizing the problem. Just know that Black people aren’t blaming anyone (except the racists and greedy who want to continue this problem). We only want to awaken white people so you won’t fall prey to the continued lies about us. They’ve been using you just as much as they’ve scapegoated us. By pitting you against us, you look at us as the problem while they steal from both of us. When you notice the money is disappearing, you turn to them and they tell you that it’s our fault causing you to turn your attention back to us. And they steal even more, from everyone. Check out some history on Lee Atwater, Republican strategist, during the Nixon days. He taught the Republican Party how to do this flawlessly. They did it so well till no one believed us when we disputed their claims. If you want more information, check out works by Henry Louis gates. He’s a historian with a lot of excellent history dating back to when we were first brought here all the way to the days of Obama.
Whitney Bailey As a Black American, all I can say is THANK YOU! I’m near tears after reading your comment! If you were standing near me (and Covid-19 wasn’t a thing), I’d hug you. And I’m not even a hugger! So I’m giving you a virtual hug right now! Did you get it?
I commend your courage. I challenge you to re-direct your view of her. If she were white, would you say, “oh she’s a strong white woman”? She’s an accomplished scientist and a subject matter expert - her race may be aligned to her research topic, her gender is not on topic and her perseverance is also not of topic. I share this with you because you presented radical vulnerability with your comment. Just come a little further in your growth and provide compliments agnostic of color and gender. For other ppl who experience struggles, like the white feminist movement, speaking to gender is central to the movement. For us, recognizing who we are agnostic of our race and gender is central. “Strong, black woman” is a racial bias and stereotype and it makes many of us cringe. We don’t know her, her topic is PTSD within the black community. Ironically the topic is the opposite of strength and she’s encouraging us to counter the dismissal of the stereotype that we’re fine, because we are strong. When in reality and as a community, we are certainly not. She quotes James Marion Sims who conducted experiments on female slaves with no pain medication in his pursuits to invent the vaginal speculum. And is quoted saying that black woman can endure insurmountable amounts of pain. He tortured these women under the guise of “science”. What does that sound like to you...a strong, black woman. Those weren’t strong black woman, those were victims of a man who didn’t view his subjects as humans and was a murderer. He murdered infants stabbing knives in their brains while they were alive in the name of “science”. So when you say those words, you re-victimize their ancestors and poke your finger in a wound that is still so fresh for us. You’ll level up on your personal journey of anti-racism by recognizing our accomplishments and not physical traits we’ve been born with. I hope you find this message delivered with your personal growth in mind. Keep it up and inspire others to join you in your journey. ❤️
I've watched this so many times this year since the pandemic Quarantine and I learned so much... she has a word for the lack of emotion/empathy whites have towards blacks " Congnitive disenece" spelling may be off but never has our history been explained with such honesty raw evidence and shamelessly... And to top it off a strong beautiful smart "black" woman telling it. This is pure education that is meant to overstand and heal we not use to that in America at all.. may God protect this woman and her family... I have watched every single lecture by her on RUclips...Powerful
...It took me almost 2yrs to get through "Medical Apartheid." I literally could not bear to read an entire chapter due to the unfathomable pain and pure rage that arose in me. "Without Sanctuary" did the same.
Same it took me a while too (4 years) it is just too hard reading what they did to our people... Then throw in the fact I have lost over 10 family members (including mom and sister)at the hand of doctors....and I still have not finished and probably will never
She helped me put a name to what I've always noticed and answered so many of my questions!! She's amazing. Telling nothing but truth. Hopefully some people that always say slavery had no affect on us today will finally realize that something that traumatic for centuries has inevitable affects
@Richard BENJAMIN Akers you must be white and you sir suffer from cognitive dissonance. Because you are not functioning well in the comment section and in life. Grow a spine and come into the TRUTH and out of your cognitive dissonance
I've watched this after the George Floyd riots in America to get a further understanding of the mindset of the black community in America. Bless you, ma'am. You have revealed so much. I want to keep learning, to keep educating myself and those around me. And hopefully we can work towards a better future for our children.
As a black man, I'd like to thank you for caring enough to take a step in the right direction to begin the healing process. We all should be responsible for making contributions toward bettering relations, one step at a time.
Thank you fir your desire to learn more about our experiences in this country. For too long, white supremacists have lied on us. We know how well they lie. Everything they’ve said about us is actually who they are. Collectively, we’re opposite their descriptions. You should get her book by the same title. Also, look at a lot of the works by Henry Louis Gates. He’s a distinguished professor, historian, at one of the schools way up north, in Massachusetts I think. He’s the one who the gentleman who was racially profiled during the Obama administration. You might remember. Neighbor called cops thought he was breaking into his own home. Obama had a beer with him and the cop in the lawn at the WH. He has a lot of videos out that goes from when they first brought us here, all the struggles, up to the days of Obama. Check him out. Very enlightening. Please share with as many others as you can and help them to develop an interest, too, because as so many have said, we are tired, completely drained of having to fight this same battle over and over. We need all white people to see and understand the truth so we can rid this country of racism once and for all.
@@chasjr63 What concrete policy steps does this 'healing process' entail? I take it we're all not just gonna hug it out and be better, right? Let me guess . . . if white people redistribute more of their stuff to black people, that'll make it better!! Just like it did before!! lol!!
Wow! I just learned about this wonderful woman just today. This lecture gave me mixed feelings: anger, relief and comprehension at the same time. Only God knows the full extent of the pain and anguish our ancestors went through. I will get this book. It’s priceless!
I'm a white man with a lot of privilege. This has educated me in more ways than you will ever know, and I thank you. I'm a white man who was part of the problem but it's time to be part f the solution. I did it by having conversations about race with less compassionate white folks blinded by their privilege.. Everyone gets naked in this room and that's not always comfortable. But that's how we learn. There is no other way.
I often suggest this video link just by the title in certain comment sections. If you have not seen these already you may want to check the RUclips links below as well: 1. The Patriot Act: We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd ft Hasan Minhaj 2. Racial Wealth Gap - Netflix (on YT) 3. Jane Elliott ( Rock Newman Interview plus everything she's done.) Keep safe and Hope this finds you well. ✨
@@renasyed1606 I can explain my privileged. I am privileged not be questioned when walking the streets. I am privileged to not be judged based on my skin tone at job interviews. I am privileged because, as a white person. I have a clean slate going in. Not like people of colour who have to prove themselves right off that bat. I got a lot from this video.
AC Cavalier your first comment was satisfactory for me...Brady comment was confusing.. however, thanks for further explaining what you meant by privilege. I applaud you for seeking to understand race relations and will stand with us... but first this is just an assumption on my part..if there’s any guilt on your part you need to check that first... we can’t fix that for you... Stand with us (just not doing these current events) because of the injustice of black lives...Thank you!✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽#BLM
This should be on the school curriculum and programme for training police, doctors and teachers in all countries connected with the slave trade and colonialism. In the UK you learn nothing about any of this even if you read history at Oxford or Cambridge. This needs to change
the uk is basically the start of all colonialism and evil so not educating kids about these things is a conscious choice of denying what’s happened in their history
I am so sad Blacks and Whites have not been introduced to this Dr. She is BRILLIANT and deserves the Nobel Prize for this research and more than that; how she so perfectly presented it. I've never seen anything like this before; As much as I love Obama; She has earned all of my respect. BET, Noah, MSNBC, everybody should be showing this information to us; Why don't they do this? We all need to see this. It's the closest and most accurate of our account as a people to date. I posted this video everywhere and guess what; when I went back to review what I posted the short version was posted and not this one.
BET is is owned by VIACOM--a white owned company. We don't own BET. BET will NEVER show content like this. Noah doesn't own his platform either. We don't own ANY platforms. Oprah doesn't fully own the OWN network. Note the common theme. We don't own the most powerful platform that controls the information outputs that most people eventually perceive as reality--even when its based on myths and lies. #exhaling
White folks that don’t want to hear it STILL won’t receive it. Especially from a Black woman. They will still feel like they are blamed. Systemic racism has to be broken down by the people that put it into place or enables.
@@lunahmoon8286 well, learning physically changes the structure of the brain. so it’s not too hard to imagine how much it can affect your outlook on life, and as a result your life changes.
Wow Tim, I appreciate you. I work with a small company, that's mainly White, with me and one other Black person. The company has chosen to not discuss the Civil Unrest, due to Police Brutality and Racial Injustice! We're pissed and now must experience more trauma, because we have to educate them on our trauma!
Yooo I have a hard time even finishing this video… when she said “it’s just there culture “ that’s just the way they are “ man I was so overwhelmed with emotions and understanding of so many layers .. of what that means it brought sadness, remorse , joy, anger, satisfaction , pain etc .. because she nailed and identified everything I’ve been feeling my whole life but it still hurt when she pointed it out.. that our so called “culture “ is mostly this post Traumatic slavery syndrome .. man that was deep and on the other hand how white people try and mask what was done by using those Traumatic behaviors as an underlying “guilt diversion “ to basically take no responsibility or even try and justify or even water it down to the point that it didn’t even happen in the system they have always benefited from and admired is in fact so corrupt at its core…… chills I got all that and more off of 15min of the video talk your stuff Dr. JOY
And why many black males implode on each other. They kill each other because that's where they often empty what they don't understand about their historical losses, pain, and griefs. They can't harm who hurts them, so they harm who is closest
Hey Denzel I am a 60 plus year old dark black woman and live in England. It has always bothered me that 80% of black men worship white women and do not see beautiful black women as their Queen or prize. Dr Joy has just explained why. The pain in this detail it causes. When a black man or woman is demeaned in America we feel it here
Here we go , blaming white peoples of today for your ancestors suffering. Not saying some people of today are not still traumatized by how their ancestors were treated, but remember I’m not a slave owner and never have been and have no desire to be one. So you’re dam right I don’t feel guilty. Why should I .
She changed my life in 2008 when i learned about her work! It allow3d me to envision how these same concepts impact Native Mexican people and Chicanx people under us occupation.
Im here from tiktok Im afro Caribbean and i know this is majority about black ppl and slavery but.... Theres so much that reflective of my own life i only wanted to add (not subtract from the discussion) my mother would always tell me how proud she was to be a mullato and for the longest i was too until i realized... These terms are based so deep in racism. My (immediate) family is native to the Caribbean and ive only recently realized the stories my great grand mother told her family about her life was about how herself and her people were essentially forced into slavery. how her people (the native arawak people) were raped and pillaged... And killed The how and why my ancestors were Jamaican, Haitian mixed with Arawak people.... It hurt to finally put together the why i have no roots beyond my great grandmother. This video put so much of my life into perspective and allowed me to realized how fucked my own ancestry is.
This was a powerful, powerful video. The understanding of what they did to us is even worse than what was done to Jews. The fact that we are told to forget these incidents and move past slavery is easy for a people that never had to live in our skin or except what their ancestors have done and what they continue to do in 2017.
Had to come back and watch this in 2020 after watching yet another video of a black man being murdered on camera by a police officer. I have to accept that I’m subconsciously traumatized
@Yasmin Heath....Subconsciously re-traumatized every time they show a Black man being killed on National TV! I wondered, WHY do you never see body cam video of white people, being killed by cops on national tv? Since it's been said whites are the only who are mostly killed by cops..... I can think of only one....Daniel Shaver, the guy they had crawling on his hands and knees down a hallway.....shouting about how they would kill him before they murdered him.... I think the reason they show the body cam footage of Black people being murdered....is because it's their version of a Modern day lynching! They can no longer legally, have "Pic-Nics", where they can crowd around and watch a Black person being beaten, dismembered, hanged and burned....to intimidate Black people and empower whites.....So they show a Black person being killed on murdered on TV
I love Dr. Degruy Leary's delivery. She has way of speaking that grabs your attention and keeps you interested in what she's saying. I have listened to this lecture 4 times and it never gets old.
Everytime I watch this, I wonder why this isn't being taught in Schools everywhere. Stayup, Keep the Faith. Thanks Dr Joy DeGruy, for your poignant and powerful research and presentation!
@@queenzyonnax2296 No doubt . I do my best...not all are ready to receive it, especially when it comes from one of our own; sadly! Peace*&Blessings my sister🙏🏽
Social learning (Ontology) is key and tied to an history of slavery. It definitely explains the post traumatic effects of slavery in liquid society (today) among diversity groups
@Rusty Shackleford black people don't feel like victims. The problem with you is, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! so you distract with your cognitive dissonance. MATURING WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER FOR YOU!
We as a people need to understand if you don't know your history or the hidden laws of today. To me knowledge is freedom. If you knew better I would think you'd do better.
No info actually, if you didn't know slaves were treated bad of all race than you never went to school. People are lynched everyday in Africa. Slaves of all races we're tortured, even today the middle East has boy and girl sex slaves. She taught nothing that educated people already know about any slave. I was hoping for something to learn, not just making more hatred for white people who never laid a hand on black people today.
This is a highly informative lecture that demonstrates the linkages between slavery and present day racism. Dr. DeGruy Leary is brilliant, grounded, and full of compassion. Please watch this.
@@zzz-nu2re purposefully underfunding schools and making it harder for families to do the bare minimum is the issue. we all know what the issues are, lets not dance around em and wait for a lord to come save us. god gave us tools to fix everything NOW.
I am 31 years old, I am praying that my generation, every people, will teach their kids the principles Dr. DeGruy Leary states so beautifully and start turning the ship. I’m praying we raise them in this mindset and start true generational healing. I’m doing it differently with my four children and living it myself. We in this generation were all born into a horrible mess and a travesty we didn’t start and I am hopeful that our generation and the one we’re raising can be the ones to bring healing by being different. I choose to be different. I so want it to be different for the next generations. In my little corner of the world I’m making it different. I fully believe we can change the narrative for future generations. We have to. I am hopeful, God help us.
Just stumbled upon this lecture… feeling the need to push it out across any and every platform available. DEFINITELY going to listen to this again!!! Powerful!!!
WOW! EXCELLENT!! Even as a licensed mental health therapist, I don't find it surprising that the Social Learning Theory concept is overlooked most often times.
*Most aggreable,extreme degrees,of many centuries generations'of traumatic stress: No wonder our ancestors (up until today)have to pray to GOD OUR EVERLASTING CREATOR,for strength'even survival: YAHWEH IS WHY WE EXIST!!! 9-23-2023'
As an African-American seeing our ancestors go through something so traumatic as slavery then the Jim Crow law and we experience all of the traumatic after effects of the whole despicable thing that does something to our brains as black people forever it cannot be erased the damage cannot no longer be ignored it has to be paid in full.
The most amazing and powerful, well researched lecture I’ve ever seen in my life. This has changed my life and understanding on so many important levels on who i am, where my ancestors come from, what they went through, their perseverance, pain, my generational trauma and the hate towards my people then and til this day.
Their agenda has been successful. Agenda exactly. The truth is going to shock the world. Do you know? Do most of us know who we Really are. God's jewels. The powers that be know this truth, and it's why they have always feared us. Love and light to you.
For those who disliked the content of this video, and you’re very few, I sincerely pray that God will one day touch your heart and open your mind enough to understand that uncomfortable conversations is what makes us grow. It’s where we learn, it’s where we heal and where we begin to come together as one body under our creator. I will be showing my kids this video and I will try to break the effects of this Trauma in my household.
I love how she speaks in the narrative of the savaged mind. Exposing the cognitive dissonance of brutality. All that is needed is to make them feel is Jane Elliot would be in order.
Another demonstration of how brutal the Caribbean was: There were more slaves taken to the tiny Caribbean island of Martinique than there were to the then USA (13 colonies). Martinique land mass: 1,128km2 USA land mass: 720,820km2
Walk&Live Talk&BumbaclartDead slight correction. She was talking about Jamaica in the context of discussing sugarcane production. I don’t believe she mentioned Martinique
Also check out Dr. Amos Wilson, he also talks on these issues as a psychologist geared directly for the African American. His and her work is so very important to know and understand
emanuel deadwyler Also please check out Dr Frances Cress Welsing. Truly an Ancestor whom many Africa centered scholars have had their foundations built on.
Dr. Joy has released me from my own stigmatized mentality as a 6-1, 270 fit man in my 50's having to live in my beautiful brown skin being judged all my life for being black! Not smart not well mannered respectable loving! Black! What a break down of the real thought behind how the see me! And why! Every black man should see this and wake up! We all in this shit together! Peace!
First watched this lecture about 4/5 years ago in a Social Work/AFAM class; watched it many times of the years, Dr. Degruy is a genius; simply brilliant
This is good i had never heard this term before "Post Traumatic Slave Disorder" and yet it is a term I've been using lately to describe some of our behavior as African Americans
Here is a very educated woman who went to university. She is using research and, quoting people which cant be denied. Yet there are people giving this a thumbs down. I wish for those objectionable people to give a lecture I can attend that would debunk her.
I’m sadden that I just discovered this video but thankful someone shared it because this video is so powerful and I’ve learned a LOT. So glad I was able to view this.
teresa wicks - I have watched this and all the others done by Dr DeGruy so many times that I can repeat each video word for word, and I learn more and more each time I watch.
An abrahamic deity received upon being enslaved. PTSS leaves the psychological condition of the mind unable to recognise this let alone any validity of such a claim.
In each generation there is somebody who stands up to explain what it all means......you Dr Leary have done a great job for black folks and humanity , our children must understand this.
Watching this listening to this for the first time I'm sure it's going to be a third time I can so appreciate Dr. L e a r y sensitive approach to this discussion .❤
Fearless educator whose main objective is healing the psychological trauma still alive even today. And only by talking about it openly can we begin to understand and heal knowing that they indeed were the animals and not us. Glad I tuned in. But still-imagine from Slavery to the jail house for no good reason other than they hated us being free; the American system hasn't changed much - has it
Let's not forget that there were always good white people and many were opposed to slavery. Psychiatric medication is a new form of mental slavery by the way.
When you read the book!! It is so eye opening, and empowering. She recommends 3 books in the book!! Absolutely life changing!!!!! I thank God for her!!!
@sunlyon42...She recommended 3 books 📚 according to you which you've read and a sister is asking you for those books and kept it to yourself? Lord have mercy!
This lecture changed my research on adolescent development, it took me on a tangent that helped me see the universal psychopathy of humanity based on insecure adolescent boys.
She's amazing! And she needed a better and more responsive group. I hope she gets many more seminars and has lots of attention because what she's saying is too important to ignore or just watch once and be done with it. Also, how could anyone not put a thumbs down to this video? she makes a very valid point, what's not to like?
They were dry at first, then you could see them perk up and were intrigued towards the end. What I loved most was that she didn’t care if they engaged; they was gone learn today!!
They are realising for the first time that they have been traumatised lying to themselves and properly seeing their privilege for the first time and it isn't pretty
Thoughtful, provocative, and powerful! It's incredible to me that people refuse to accept that an institution so vile as slavery (as well as the practices/laws/ that continued after slavery),would not continue to have residual effects.
This excellent presentation gives a name and definition to the result of the many stories I heard while growing up. My grandparents were traumatized, not only from their lives but the lives of their parents... which in turn affected my parents and then affected me...I'm 60 and have my own stories. My sons and grandsons have theirs.....and yet we live....
This is so necessary! Brothers and Sisters, please share this with friends and fam. This information needs to be taught and absorbed by all of our ppl!
I do not promote racism but I cannot imagine interracial relationships and marriages being without a certain amount of discomfort in the light of all this.
@@joanaherreryana9 why crazy and where I'm from u 👀it all the time and when blk women get white males they submitt to them when a BLK man asks then they go crazy
@@ga9100 hey sorry, I didn't understand what you meant? sorry :) could you re-write it with a different wording? English is not my language. And what I meant by my previous comment is that, someone non-black can understand what blks went through but no one can understand it better than themselves. And I bet there's some nice black women out there, just gotta keep searching brother :D
B Thompson It’s those who think like you who keep this systemic problem going. Just because it doesn’t happen to you, and you can’t imagine it, doesn’t make it false. We can ignore it everyday and pretend it doesn’t exist, but it’ll still exist. It’s like ignoring COVID-19, continuously repeating out loud that it doesn’t exist just because it hasn’t happened to us. Pretending Covid-19 is real doesn’t make its existence any less real. Same applies with systemic racism and the continuing trauma. It’s like the 12 steps in AA. The first is to admit that there is a problem. As long as you say there’s no problem, blaming the victims for being victimized, you are closed-minded and will never see the problem. Please don’t think I’m being mean when I say this because I’m not. But if you choose not to see the problem, the best thing you can do for the rest of us is to respectfully keep silent and let us fight the battle until you DO see the problem. When we make things better for us, they automatically get better for everyone. Fighting against this systemic problem is indeed how we “captain our own ship”.
@B Thompson It doesn't make any sense to you because it's not targeted at you. This isn't retroactive thinking, nor is it a belief in "past life regression". This is reality, Black Americans' lived experiences on a daily basis. (Actually, Black people all over the world live the same experiences, although unique to their countries). Racism still happens today. As time passed and things changed, it takes on the form that is conducive to the time. For example, prior to the Civil Rights Act, Black people were constantly harassed, terrorized, tortured, lynched, and killed, (in public) for no other reason except that racists wanted to do whatever it is they did. After the Civil Rights Act, the public acts were illegal, but they'd still harm/kill/hang Black people in cover of darkness, from under their KKK hoods. What I'm saying is ALL POST SLAVERY! So, what we're talking about isn't slavery's past. It's present day because the torture and oppression haven't stopped. I don't know what you're talking about when you mention "don't vote campaigns...slavery was justified..." parts. I've never heard of that. If by continuing to deny it, you will never see it because you will never experience. Just know that our lived experiences are much different from yours. As I said, simply because it doesn't happen in your lived experience doesn't mean it's not real.
The best speech ever given in the history of all speeches. Comprehensive and gripping! Wow she really did such an amazing job on this entire speech. Sooooo beautifully done.
Peace. I've watched and studied Dr. DeGruy Leary for some years now. She is amazing and her research is on point! I had to come back to watch this again for my law firm and an upcoming online show I'm doing on our women being abused and mistreated historically.
I been revisiting and sharing this video actively on social media these past few days. I find it's one of the best ways to get through to people to help them understand what is happening, why people are protesting and why they are angry.
It is a shame that a woman who has done so much for society has yet to truly receive her due recognition for her contribution to Humanity. She is truly a champion.
That's because of they do they'll have to recognise all the countless other black historians and scholars which will change the social dynamics and consequently the status quo!
@Gregory James I heard you however, we MUST stop looking to the oppressor to VALIDATE Black People. They strive on mentally punishing Black People who are reaching/ begging for recognition. Most important than recognition let's overstand what our story is and reach for healing from the trauma. I believe HEALING is more important right now and it will elevate Black People to the next level where they are more than able to give themselves the Recognition they deserve.
If she married I'm sure she gets all that due
Dr. Joy receives recognition on a continuum and utilizes it as fuel to launch her forward into subsequent discoveries.
@Fayth-Anna Adams No TRUER Words spoken!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Healing over "recognition" is Key...indeed Agree.🎯
Watching this again for the 3rd time, and it is more powerful every time! Dr. DeGruy is proof of why they never wanted Black people to know how to read!
Me too!!!!
@John Thijm Thijm I'm glad for all your efforts. Please let me know if you need help with any of this. Respond with time stamps and I'll explain her words to you if you need me to.
AMEN TO THAT !!!!!
BRILLIANT !!!!!
I'M READING UP ON BENJAMIN BANNEKER, A MAN WHO WAS AN ASTROPHYSICIST, SCIENTIST, MATHEMATICIAN, ETC. I READ SOMEWHERE THAT DUE TO HIS TALENT IN CARPENTRY AND HIS TALENT FOR BEING THE FIRST PERSON TO PERFECT TIME, (THE CLOCK), HE WAS ASKED BY THE ENGLISH MONARCHY TO DESIGN BIG BEN WHICH STILL STANDS IN LONDON. I'M SHOCKED TO READ ON WIKI THAT AT HIS FUNERAL, THERE WAS A FIRE AND ONLY ONE OF HIS JOURNALS SURVIVED. WHY WOULD HIS JOURNALS BE AT HIS FUNERAL? WHY WOULD HIS HANDWRITTEN WORKS NOT BE IN A SAFE PLACE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE? IS IT SO THAT NONE OF HIS WORKS CAN BE TIED BACK TO HIM BUT TO OTHERS OF POLITICAL STANDING COULD TAKE CREDIT FOR HIS WORKS?
This needs to be watched in every classroom in this country and discussed.
100%..since everyone wants AA to get over it.
All African People need this!
Disagree as it traumatised Adults let alone our Futures . Also the protective context & measures for triggers need consideration in the institute instance. I was there!!!
my psychology teacher showed us this but our internet stopped working 😭😭😭
Yesssss!
*"Anything that robs us of our humanity is a danger to everyone"*
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@lostman33 ✊🏾🙌🏾✨
And who is "us"? Presumably, this doesn't include slaves... Only her in group.
As a woman from the Caribbean that line was so poignant... "the Caribbean was a slaughterhouse." chilled me to my bones!
There is no comparison it all was enslavement. So why do Caribbean ppl hate American blacks? Why dont you appreciate our fight here for your acceptance?
@@everyonedeservestogohome2949 Are you suggesting the resentment is all ONE way?
@drewav8r I'm also of Caribbean descent. My understanding of Caribbean history is that it was QUITE brutal. Yet for some reason, Caribbean people revolted, fought back A LOT despite or maybe BECAUSE of this brutality. Haiti achieved the ONLY successful slave revolt in the western hemisphere as far as I know.
@@kasnarfburns210 Yes, they fight back a lot, in some circumstances, the knowledge and understanding of the land helped with the fight. In America, the enslaved are shown as weak and downtrodden but there's many instances of revolts that are hushed. We are Brothers and Sisters who have been terribly effected by colonization. We are fighters because we are human. It's human nature to want to survive and flourish in peace. Our fight was and is the same. We will get through this because we come from some serious fighters.
im from STX. ;-; i never knew about this stuff.
She makes me want to go finish my psychology degree. I love how she teaches
Do it Queen
The so called disorder is nothing but focus on negative things. Could be anything. In this case it's slavery.
Do it! So many lives can be positively affected
If people carnt handle studying history without being traumatised then they shouldn't
@@jimtomo9207 your kind
I'm a black woman and was in D.C
everyday on the train. About 9 times a white person would bump into me ( not a tap but a thump). They never said excuse me and when I said " the word is excuse me ", they acted surprised and like I was being extra. Reminds me of how she said they were taught that we have no feelings
And that we are not Human.
@BlingPalce are you seriously crying over being bumped into and associating that with racism? 😂
here comes a white person shitting on everything, as they do.
@@ElijahWatts-ji9yx Are you seriously trying to invalidate her experience?
@@vanillavania. I'm calling her experience stupid and you are too if you think this is some evident form of racism. What a bunch of clowns
An intellectual black woman, telling the truth about the black experience around the world. She is a powerhouse.
The significant bias in Eurocentric academia initially dismissed this thesis until it was applied to Holocaust survivors and renamed Epigenetic Inheritance.
We all need healing and and acknowledge the impacts of Post Colonial Cognitive Dissonance, considering the current environment.
1066keefurban it only makes sense when it applies to white people
I'm using this theory for my doctoral thesis, can you direct me to a source for this statement? Thank you.
Ooo
Funny thing about the Holocaust survivors is the fact the Eberites/Hebrews left Mizraim-Egpty with dark skin during the Exodus & came back white...
Yet the Bible clearly states only JUDAH would go into slavery into all 4 corners of the WORLD.
Then America put the descendants of Japheth the converts not SHEM/Judah back in Isreal in 1948.
@@LK-to9lwthe Jewish community were cashed out.
I'm a white female and the first time I watched this, I was initially a little put off, but I kept watching. I'm so glad I did! My eyes were opened by Dr Joy Degruy to issues I didn't know I even had... I was holding on to prejudices that I thought were just "fact" basicslly... I'm embarrassed by how ignorant I was before hand, because I would have never thought or believed that I had a single drop of racism in my body or mind. I've always thought of myself as kind and open minded and I never consciously judged someone for the color of their skin.. I realized there were some issues that had been programmed into the way I thought about black people, that I had to just get rid of. This is such a powerful speech and right now especially, I wish everyone in out country would sit down and watch this. ❤ I have so much respect for this brilliant, strong, black woman.
This is my 3rd time watching this btw. I like come back and refresh myself from time to time. I genuinely can't express how much this opened my eyes.
YES. I have not watched this yet (am about to) but I totally understand where you're coming from. Explaining institutionalized white supremacy to a privileged white girl like me was like trying to tell a fish about water--it was so pervasive, and I only ever benefited from it, so I never had to think about it or even saw it. I was raised to be colorblind, to believe that racism was a thing of the past--and I wanted to believe that was the case. But we cannot fix what we refuse to see. Once I started listening; once I started looking at the U.S. through the lens of believing in institutional racism and privilege; once I started learning about it...OMG it changed my entire perspective on so many things. I see it *everywhere* now, and so much that needs to be fixed. It's not our fault, but it IS our problem, and it IS our responsibility. And we CAN do something about it.
@@whitneybailey9021 exactly. I get so offended about little things and people I'm around are like "who are you trying to impress?". Idc about impressing anyone, I can about seeing change. I knew I had some preconceived issues before watching this because I had started reading more about institutionalized racism and I started listening more to what my black friends were telling me, but this speech was a definite eye opener for sure. She has such an amazing way of breaking things down for everyone to actually be able to understand and grasp because alot of these topics are difficult for white people to see honestly. It's like explaining to men that sexism doesn't exist... he might see there are issues here and there but its hard to lay out everything in a way a man could see bc, well, he never has been and never will be a woman. And on that topic, Dr. Joy's intelligence and strength also has me In awe as a women. I love it, i love her. This country needs so many more strong black women and she is a model of that. ❤
Emily Reed Thank you for being courageous enough to continue to watch! Black Americans want so desperately for white people to hear us and see that all of us are being used by the greedy narcissist who don’t care who gets hurt by their lies. I’ve noticed that people get “put off” because of a tinge of personalizing the problem. Just know that Black people aren’t blaming anyone (except the racists and greedy who want to continue this problem). We only want to awaken white people so you won’t fall prey to the continued lies about us. They’ve been using you just as much as they’ve scapegoated us. By pitting you against us, you look at us as the problem while they steal from both of us. When you notice the money is disappearing, you turn to them and they tell you that it’s our fault causing you to turn your attention back to us. And they steal even more, from everyone. Check out some history on Lee Atwater, Republican strategist, during the Nixon days. He taught the Republican Party how to do this flawlessly. They did it so well till no one believed us when we disputed their claims. If you want more information, check out works by Henry Louis gates. He’s a historian with a lot of excellent history dating back to when we were first brought here all the way to the days of Obama.
Whitney Bailey As a Black American, all I can say is THANK YOU! I’m near tears after reading your comment! If you were standing near me (and Covid-19 wasn’t a thing), I’d hug you. And I’m not even a hugger! So I’m giving you a virtual hug right now! Did you get it?
I commend your courage. I challenge you to re-direct your view of her. If she were white, would you say, “oh she’s a strong white woman”?
She’s an accomplished scientist and a subject matter expert - her race may be aligned to her research topic, her gender is not on topic and her perseverance is also not of topic. I share this with you because you presented radical vulnerability with your comment.
Just come a little further in your growth and provide compliments agnostic of color and gender. For other ppl who experience struggles, like the white feminist movement, speaking to gender is central to the movement. For us, recognizing who we are agnostic of our race and gender is central. “Strong, black woman” is a racial bias and stereotype and it makes many of us cringe. We don’t know her, her topic is PTSD within the black community. Ironically the topic is the opposite of strength and she’s encouraging us to counter the dismissal of the stereotype that we’re fine, because we are strong. When in reality and as a community, we are certainly not.
She quotes James Marion Sims who conducted experiments on female slaves with no pain medication in his pursuits to invent the vaginal speculum. And is quoted saying that black woman can endure insurmountable amounts of pain. He tortured these women under the guise of “science”. What does that sound like to you...a strong, black woman. Those weren’t strong black woman, those were victims of a man who didn’t view his subjects as humans and was a murderer. He murdered infants stabbing knives in their brains while they were alive in the name of “science”. So when you say those words, you re-victimize their ancestors and poke your finger in a wound that is still so fresh for us.
You’ll level up on your personal journey of anti-racism by recognizing our accomplishments and not physical traits we’ve been born with. I hope you find this message delivered with your personal growth in mind. Keep it up and inspire others to join you in your journey. ❤️
Everyone needs to watch this today in 2020.
lostman33 you so worried about the messenger that’s not important....did you get the message? Thats what matters
@lostman33Basi6 They say the same thing
@lostman33 what you say is true about Dane Calloway I've watched and listen to his videos. Dr.Leary is also spitting out knowledge
I've watched this so many times this year since the pandemic Quarantine and I learned so much... she has a word for the lack of emotion/empathy whites have towards blacks " Congnitive disenece" spelling may be off but never has our history been explained with such honesty raw evidence and shamelessly... And to top it off a strong beautiful smart "black" woman telling it. This is pure education that is meant to overstand and heal we not use to that in America at all.. may God protect this woman and her family... I have watched every single lecture by her on RUclips...Powerful
I agree, also I'm glad I can see the faces in the crowd.
...It took me almost 2yrs to get through "Medical Apartheid." I literally could not bear to read an entire chapter due to the unfathomable pain and pure rage that arose in me. "Without Sanctuary" did the same.
Same it took me a while too (4 years) it is just too hard reading what they did to our people...
Then throw in the fact I have lost over 10 family members (including mom and sister)at the hand of doctors....and I still have not finished and probably will never
I still haven't finished reading "Medical Apartheid"; absolutely traumatizing.
@@truthiscensoredSTILL WONT DO NOTHING BUT CRY AND WHINE ABOUT IT HUH? 🛑
WHAT'S NEW? NOTHING HAS CHANGED, NOTHING, WORSE NOW THAN EVER🛑🤡
She helped me put a name to what I've always noticed and answered so many of my questions!! She's amazing. Telling nothing but truth. Hopefully some people that always say slavery had no affect on us today will finally realize that something that traumatic for centuries has inevitable affects
@@biglee3780 lmao, your white daddy told you that...right?
Rye,
@Richard BENJAMIN Akers you must be white and you sir suffer from cognitive dissonance. Because you are not functioning well in the comment section and in life. Grow a spine and come into the TRUTH and out of your cognitive dissonance
You are a miracle!
She missed out the top reason WHY they hate us, cause we are the true Children of Israel, not the white fakes you see today
I've watched this after the George Floyd riots in America to get a further understanding of the mindset of the black community in America. Bless you, ma'am. You have revealed so much. I want to keep learning, to keep educating myself and those around me. And hopefully we can work towards a better future for our children.
We will see
As a black man, I'd like to thank you for caring enough to take a step in the right direction to begin the healing process. We all should be responsible for making contributions toward bettering relations, one step at a time.
yes!!! and the fact that this is from nearly 15 years ago and it could've been completely intact without context is very telling.
Thank you fir your desire to learn more about our experiences in this country. For too long, white supremacists have lied on us. We know how well they lie. Everything they’ve said about us is actually who they are. Collectively, we’re opposite their descriptions. You should get her book by the same title. Also, look at a lot of the works by Henry Louis Gates. He’s a distinguished professor, historian, at one of the schools way up north, in Massachusetts I think. He’s the one who the gentleman who was racially profiled during the Obama administration. You might remember. Neighbor called cops thought he was breaking into his own home. Obama had a beer with him and the cop in the lawn at the WH. He has a lot of videos out that goes from when they first brought us here, all the struggles, up to the days of Obama. Check him out. Very enlightening. Please share with as many others as you can and help them to develop an interest, too, because as so many have said, we are tired, completely drained of having to fight this same battle over and over. We need all white people to see and understand the truth so we can rid this country of racism once and for all.
@@chasjr63 What concrete policy steps does this 'healing process' entail? I take it we're all not just gonna hug it out and be better, right?
Let me guess . . . if white people redistribute more of their stuff to black people, that'll make it better!! Just like it did before!!
lol!!
Wow! I just learned about this wonderful woman just today. This lecture gave me mixed feelings: anger, relief and comprehension at the same time. Only God knows the full extent of the pain and anguish our ancestors went through. I will get this book. It’s priceless!
I just heard of this phenomenal lady yesterday! Wonderful!!! See my comment today @karenspencer6454
Only the ancestors, not u.
Not just our ancestors... The (current) angry Black woman is not just a stereotype!
@@dianejordan9826 ur not a slave, stop acting like u were
@@zzz-nu2re stfu, stop infiltrating spaces where u know u dont have the intelligence to even voice anything relevant or substantial
This should be required in all high schools in America
The fact this was done in 2008 im here in 2023 and it feels so fresh
I'm a white man with a lot of privilege. This has educated me in more ways than you will ever know, and I thank you. I'm a white man who was part of the problem but it's time to be part f the solution. I did it by having conversations about race with less compassionate white folks blinded by their privilege.. Everyone gets naked in this room and that's not always comfortable. But that's how we learn. There is no other way.
I often suggest this video link just by the title in certain comment sections.
If you have not seen these already you may want to check the RUclips links below as well:
1. The Patriot Act: We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd ft Hasan Minhaj
2. Racial Wealth Gap - Netflix (on YT)
3. Jane Elliott ( Rock Newman Interview plus everything she's done.)
Keep safe and
Hope this finds you well.
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@@ThomasIOsaze thank you
Brady Carrigan. Please explain
@@renasyed1606 I can explain my privileged. I am privileged not be questioned when walking the streets. I am privileged to not be judged based on my skin tone at job interviews. I am privileged because, as a white person. I have a clean slate going in. Not like people of colour who have to prove themselves right off that bat. I got a lot from this video.
AC Cavalier your first comment was satisfactory for me...Brady comment was confusing.. however, thanks for further explaining what you meant by privilege. I applaud you for seeking to understand race relations and will stand with us... but first this is just an assumption on my part..if there’s any guilt on your part you need to check that first... we can’t fix that for you... Stand with us (just not doing these current events) because of the injustice of black lives...Thank you!✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽#BLM
This should be on the school curriculum and programme for training police, doctors and teachers in all countries connected with the slave trade and colonialism. In the UK you learn nothing about any of this even if you read history at Oxford or Cambridge. This needs to change
Yes!! On point!
Police don’t need training. They know who to shoot.
Yeah, but they will never allow it. Too afraid of CRITICAL RACE THEORY. Afraid that they couldn’t handle the truth.
Plenty of UK students learn about this...
the uk is basically the start of all colonialism and evil so not educating kids about these things is a conscious choice of denying what’s happened in their history
I need to watch this at least three more times. There are so many gems in this discussion. Thank You Dr. DeGruy 🤯!!!
I am back here TODAY...watching it at work for a refreshing...as a new nursing student. She is ASTOUNDING!!!
I am so sad Blacks and Whites have not been introduced to this Dr. She is BRILLIANT and deserves the Nobel Prize for this research and more than that; how she so perfectly presented it. I've never seen anything like this before; As much as I love Obama; She has earned all of my respect. BET, Noah, MSNBC, everybody should be showing this information to us; Why don't they do this? We all need to see this. It's the closest and most accurate of our account as a people to date. I posted this video everywhere and guess what; when I went back to review what I posted the short version was posted and not this one.
BET is is owned by VIACOM--a white owned company. We don't own BET. BET will NEVER show content like this. Noah doesn't own his platform either. We don't own ANY platforms. Oprah doesn't fully own the OWN network. Note the common theme. We don't own the most powerful platform that controls the information outputs that most people eventually perceive as reality--even when its based on myths and lies. #exhaling
White folks that don’t want to hear it STILL won’t receive it. Especially from a Black woman. They will still feel like they are blamed. Systemic racism has to be broken down by the people that put it into place or enables.
TanYAHsings Therein lies the problem. They know yet they don’t want the world to know. That would topple a lot of lofty pedestals.
Vaughn Crane please check out Dr John henrik Clarke, Dr. Amos Wilson and Dr Frances Wilson
Why would you be sad? Just share the video 🙄
Dr joy has forever changed my life,
Daron carter how
In what way(s) have Dr Joy and her speeches changed your life?!! I'm curious
@@lunahmoon8286 well, learning physically changes the structure of the brain. so it’s not too hard to imagine how much it can affect your outlook on life, and as a result your life changes.
Shared this on my linkedin. We just won't be working with entities that cannot acknowledge history.
Wow Tim, I appreciate you. I work with a small company, that's mainly White, with me and one other Black person. The company has chosen to not discuss the Civil Unrest, due to Police Brutality and Racial Injustice! We're pissed and now must experience more trauma, because we have to educate them on our trauma!
Very courageous....welcome to the BBQ.
@@JonathanStaples89029 stop it. Let them have their own bbq
@@FatalCorleone07 I can't stop laughing......
@@JonathanStaples89029 we ain't got enough plates for them. Support us from OVER THERE
This is the greatest lecture I’ve ever seen. I wish America would acknowledge the pain and suffering of black people.
ME TOO, SO WE ALL CAN HEAL AND MOVE ON TO WHAT GOD WANTS US TO BE
rainy month so blacks aren’t Americans? Weird you’d imply that.
@rainy month African citizenship? Because ALL Africa is the same.
Come on. Make sense please .
They won’t
@@teresawicks-kq3bq How many times? I asked her of this helps people get better after a few back and forth comments and crickets.
Yooo I have a hard time even finishing this video… when she said “it’s just there culture “ that’s just the way they are “ man I was so overwhelmed with emotions and understanding of so many layers .. of what that means it brought sadness, remorse , joy, anger, satisfaction , pain etc .. because she nailed and identified everything I’ve been feeling my whole life but it still hurt when she pointed it out.. that our so called “culture “ is mostly this post Traumatic slavery syndrome .. man that was deep and on the other hand how white people try and mask what was done by using those Traumatic behaviors as an underlying “guilt diversion “ to basically take no responsibility or even try and justify or even water it down to the point that it didn’t even happen in the system they have always benefited from and admired is in fact so corrupt at its core…… chills I got all that and more off of 15min of the video talk your stuff Dr. JOY
Perfectly explained & literally how I feel also
You said what I couldn’t get out. Thank you
And why many black males implode on each other. They kill each other because that's where they often empty what they don't understand about their historical losses, pain, and griefs. They can't harm who hurts them, so they harm who is closest
Hey Denzel I am a 60 plus year old dark black woman and live in England. It has always bothered me that 80% of black men worship white women and do not see beautiful black women as their Queen or prize. Dr Joy has just explained why. The pain in this detail it causes. When a black man or woman is demeaned in America we feel it here
Here we go , blaming white peoples of today for your ancestors suffering. Not saying some people of today are not still traumatized by how their ancestors were treated, but remember I’m not a slave owner and never have been and have no desire to be one. So you’re dam right I don’t feel guilty. Why should I .
Just learned about this woman. Children should be taught this everywhere in America. Shame on you Florida.
She changed my life in 2008 when i learned about her work! It allow3d me to envision how these same concepts impact Native Mexican people and Chicanx people under us occupation.
Im here from tiktok
Im afro Caribbean and i know this is majority about black ppl and slavery but.... Theres so much that reflective of my own life i only wanted to add (not subtract from the discussion) my mother would always tell me how proud she was to be a mullato and for the longest i was too until i realized... These terms are based so deep in racism. My (immediate) family is native to the Caribbean and ive only recently realized the stories my great grand mother told her family about her life was about how herself and her people were essentially forced into slavery. how her people (the native arawak people) were raped and pillaged... And killed
The how and why my ancestors were Jamaican, Haitian mixed with Arawak people.... It hurt to finally put together the why i have no roots beyond my great grandmother.
This video put so much of my life into perspective and allowed me to realized how fucked my own ancestry is.
This was a powerful, powerful video. The understanding of what they did to us is even worse than what was done to Jews. The fact that we are told to forget these incidents and move past slavery is easy for a people that never had to live in our skin or except what their ancestors have done and what they continue to do in 2017.
Saucy Chica sister we are the Jews
And we never got reparations!!!
We are the REAL Jews with the blood birth right. That’s why they hate us, not because we are just “black” or “African “
The Pretty Entrepreneur TV exactly true Yisrael wake up
I agree Slavery of Black American’s was far worse and went on far longer yet, is so very undermined.
Had to come back and watch this in 2020 after watching yet another video of a black man being murdered on camera by a police officer. I have to accept that I’m subconsciously traumatized
We need to start fighting back and stop being murdered
@Yasmin Heath....Subconsciously re-traumatized every time they show a Black man being killed on National TV!
I wondered, WHY do you never see body cam video of white people, being killed by cops on national tv? Since it's been said whites are the only who are mostly killed by cops.....
I can think of only one....Daniel Shaver, the guy they had crawling on his hands and knees down a hallway.....shouting about how they would kill him before they murdered him....
I think the reason they show the body cam footage of Black people being murdered....is because it's their version of a Modern day lynching!
They can no longer legally, have "Pic-Nics", where they can crowd around and watch a Black person being beaten, dismembered, hanged and burned....to intimidate Black people and empower whites.....So they show a Black person being killed on murdered on TV
@@velvetrose7729 💯 💯
Facts!!
I feel you.
This should be played every day on BeT 6pm. There is so much we don't know and won't know due to this been called CRT
I love Dr. Degruy Leary's delivery. She has way of speaking that grabs your attention and keeps you interested in what she's saying. I have listened to this lecture 4 times and it never gets old.
The truth never gets old. I've been a disciple of Dr. Joy for over 20 years.
You can still identify with her as a sister as well.👌🏾
Everytime I watch this, I wonder why this isn't being taught in Schools everywhere. Stayup, Keep the Faith. Thanks Dr Joy DeGruy, for your poignant and powerful research and presentation!
You yourself will have to spread the wonderful message to all of our blind people that want to be saved
@@queenzyonnax2296 No doubt . I do my best...not all are ready to receive it, especially when it comes from one of our own; sadly! Peace*&Blessings my sister🙏🏽
Social learning (Ontology) is key and tied to an history of slavery. It definitely explains the post traumatic effects of slavery in liquid society (today) among diversity groups
@Rusty Shackleford black people don't feel like victims. The problem with you is, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! so you distract with your cognitive dissonance. MATURING WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER FOR YOU!
It's not taught in schools because the Administrators on the Executive level of Education has watched it too-think about it.
This video should have a million views SMH Powerful info
Good thing that shit don't fly with most black people.
Jack Steverson Jr. I agree...but a lot of our people are still sleeping, assuming that everything is gonna be alright.
We as a people need to understand if you don't know your history or the hidden laws of today. To me knowledge is freedom. If you knew better I would think you'd do better.
Had way more views than that... Wake Up YAH Holy Watchers Said This to MeYahuda I Am
No info actually, if you didn't know slaves were treated bad of all race than you never went to school. People are lynched everyday in Africa. Slaves of all races we're tortured, even today the middle East has boy and girl sex slaves. She taught nothing that educated people already know about any slave. I was hoping for something to learn, not just making more hatred for white people who never laid a hand on black people today.
I love Dr Joy DeGruy. I learn something new every time I listen to her.
I love her energy she’s like that one aunt that been through shit and got the good drinking stories 😂💯 amazing lecture👏🏾
It the only reason I can get through this lecture 🥲 her voice is cathartic.
This might just be the best lecture I’ve ever seen. I wish everyone in America could watch this.
This is a highly informative lecture that demonstrates the linkages between slavery and present day racism. Dr. DeGruy Leary is brilliant, grounded, and full of compassion. Please watch this.
Profound and powerful. THIS NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT IN ALL SCHOOLS!
No
Baltimore, Chicago, Jackson, etc cant even teach kids to read or do math, not even the LeBron james school. They should focus on the basics first
@@zzz-nu2re purposefully underfunding schools and making it harder for families to do the bare minimum is the issue. we all know what the issues are, lets not dance around em and wait for a lord to come save us. god gave us tools to fix everything NOW.
Here listening again in 2023.
I am 31 years old, I am praying that my generation, every people, will teach their kids the principles Dr. DeGruy Leary states so beautifully and start turning the ship. I’m praying we raise them in this mindset and start true generational healing. I’m doing it differently with my four children and living it myself. We in this generation were all born into a horrible mess and a travesty we didn’t start and I am hopeful that our generation and the one we’re raising can be the ones to bring healing by being different. I choose to be different. I so want it to be different for the next generations. In my little corner of the world I’m making it different. I fully believe we can change the narrative for future generations. We have to. I am hopeful, God help us.
Just stumbled upon this lecture… feeling the need to push it out across any and every platform available. DEFINITELY going to listen to this again!!! Powerful!!!
As black people we are resilient
Dr. Grury lays down historical truth in such an comprehensive way that any one can receive. You're my hero.Thank you! ❤
I’m mad I’m just seeing this. Had me in tears at some parts. Especially when she spoke of ptsd
if this lecture was played in every high school every year maybe even twice a year. Lives would change
passed down from generation to generation! They are stronger people than we will EVER BE!!!
They had to be!!! They had no choice
TikTok brought me to this wonder 💜💚
WOW! EXCELLENT!! Even as a licensed mental health therapist, I don't find it surprising that the Social Learning Theory concept is overlooked most often times.
Liz Sledge you better know it.
Simply ignored
She more than nailed it. Her presentation of this material suggests mandatory curriculum and explains why DeSantis is so afraid.
*Most aggreable,extreme degrees,of many centuries generations'of traumatic stress: No wonder our ancestors (up until today)have to pray to GOD OUR EVERLASTING CREATOR,for strength'even survival: YAHWEH IS WHY WE EXIST!!! 9-23-2023'
Post Traumatic Slave Disorder? WTF you lunatics going to blame your problems on next?
How about "Post Birth Disorder."
This video blew me away. I wrote my final paper on it this semester. Dr. DeGruy is the goat. Changed my life as a baby therapist for real.
As an African-American seeing our ancestors go through something so traumatic as slavery then the Jim Crow law and we experience all of the traumatic after effects of the whole despicable thing that does something to our brains as black people forever it cannot be erased the damage cannot no longer be ignored it has to be paid in full.
Jeremiah 30:12, just hold on a little while longer!
@@raamyasharahla535 💯💯%%!!
The most amazing and powerful, well researched lecture I’ve ever seen in my life. This has changed my life and understanding on so many important levels on who i am, where my ancestors come from, what they went through, their perseverance, pain, my generational trauma and the hate towards my people then and til this day.
Their agenda has been successful. Agenda exactly. The truth is going to shock the world. Do you know? Do most of us know who we Really are. God's jewels. The powers that be know this truth, and it's why they have always feared us. Love and light to you.
For those who disliked the content of this video, and you’re very few, I sincerely pray that God will one day touch your heart and open your mind enough to understand that uncomfortable conversations is what makes us grow. It’s where we learn, it’s where we heal and where we begin to come together as one body under our creator.
I will be showing my kids this video and I will try to break the effects of this Trauma in my household.
I’m gonna cry like a baby tonight 😔 I already knew the evils that took place but, it hurts worse and worse every time I hear it 😥
I love how she speaks in the narrative of the savaged mind. Exposing the cognitive dissonance of brutality. All that is needed is to make them feel is Jane Elliot would be in order.
Another demonstration of how brutal the Caribbean was: There were more slaves taken to the tiny Caribbean island of Martinique than there were to the then USA (13 colonies).
Martinique land mass: 1,128km2
USA land mass: 720,820km2
Walk&Live Talk&BumbaclartDead slight correction. She was talking about Jamaica in the context of discussing sugarcane production. I don’t believe she mentioned Martinique
I've watched many videos pertaining to the Black experience and Dr. Leary is thus far the most profound educator on this subject to date.
Also check out Dr. Amos Wilson, he also talks on these issues as a psychologist geared directly for the African American. His and her work is so very important to know and understand
You know how things get around on the internet. I may have started that phrase, "the Black Experience".
emanuel deadwyler Also please check out Dr Frances Cress Welsing. Truly an Ancestor whom many Africa centered scholars have had their foundations built on.
Dr. Joy has released me from my own stigmatized mentality as a 6-1, 270 fit man in my 50's having to live in my beautiful brown skin being judged all my life for being black! Not smart not well mannered respectable loving! Black! What a break down of the real thought behind how the see me! And why! Every black man should see this and wake up! We all in this shit together! Peace!
Literally worked to death and still called us lazy smfh
This is by far the mosy beautiful body of work I've ever seen!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm at a lost for words, I will be reading every book she introduced during this video
I said the same thing to myself and wrote each and everyone down
Her dissertation on ‘race’ is startlingly clear and non-compromising. She defines this complex problem. Now we can seek solutions! 5 stars!
First watched this lecture about 4/5 years ago in a Social Work/AFAM class; watched it many times of the years, Dr. Degruy is a genius; simply brilliant
This is good i had never heard this term before "Post Traumatic Slave Disorder" and yet it is a term I've been using lately to describe some of our behavior as African Americans
I also refer them to this video. Spread the truth sis!Ase
Here is a very educated woman who went to university. She is using research and, quoting people which cant be denied. Yet there are people giving this a thumbs down. I wish for those objectionable people to give a lecture I can attend that would debunk her.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I never learned any of this when I took Black History in college. Thank you Dr. DeGruy Leary. You are an admirable person.
Teach Sister!!! You break it down so truthfully
I’m sadden that I just discovered this video but thankful someone shared it because this video is so powerful and I’ve learned a LOT. So glad I was able to view this.
God bless this woman for her tireless efforts to help the descendants of slaves. She is a modern day Malcolm X type hero.
Never gets old. Should be a requirement to be taught in school.
I'm here for my Sociology Diversity class. Such a powerful video and I'm thankful our professor had us watch it.
wow, so profoundly put and based in solid research, i could listen to her speak for hours
Sean Butler, ME TOO!!
teresa wicks - I have watched this and all the others done by Dr DeGruy so many times that I can repeat each video word for word, and I learn more and more each time I watch.
I am very comfortable in my skin, my skin color is the same as YAHUAH and YAHUSHA, I am wonderfully and beautifully made, I love who I am.
Howard University WAS A BRO BRAH
Good stuff thank you Goddess
HalleluYah
Amayah Israel I got the results of my DNA tests and its not going to hemp
An abrahamic deity received upon being enslaved. PTSS leaves the psychological condition of the mind unable to recognise this let alone any validity of such a claim.
In each generation there is somebody who stands up to explain what it all means......you Dr Leary have done a great job for black folks and humanity , our children must understand this.
Watching this listening to this for the first time I'm sure it's going to be a third time I can so appreciate Dr. L e a r y sensitive approach to this discussion .❤
Lord my God now I know why I hate
Fearless educator whose main objective is healing the psychological trauma still alive even today. And only by talking about it openly can we begin to understand and heal knowing that they indeed were the animals and not us. Glad I tuned in. But still-imagine from Slavery to the jail house for no good reason other than they hated us being free; the American system hasn't changed much - has it
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Let's not forget that there were always good white people and many were opposed to slavery. Psychiatric medication is a new form of mental slavery by the way.
i hate how everyone is so hesitant to answer the questions.
When you read the book!! It is so eye opening, and empowering. She recommends 3 books in the book!! Absolutely life changing!!!!! I thank God for her!!!
Which book is this and what 3 books did she recommend? I Appreciate this sis! Thanks for sharing!
@sunlyon42...She recommended 3 books 📚 according to you which you've read and a sister is asking you for those books and kept it to yourself? Lord have mercy!
This lecture changed my research on adolescent development, it took me on a tangent that helped me see the universal psychopathy of humanity based on insecure adolescent boys.
She's amazing! And she needed a better and more responsive group. I hope she gets many more seminars and has lots of attention because what she's saying is too important to ignore or just watch once and be done with it. Also, how could anyone not put a thumbs down to this video? she makes a very valid point, what's not to like?
Monica Zuranich I’ve met her ❤️❤️
Maybe the audience was just listening and absorbing the education.
They were dry at first, then you could see them perk up and were intrigued towards the end. What I loved most was that she didn’t care if they engaged; they was gone learn today!!
A lot of them are white for the first time hearing me maw and them lied and the shame and uncomfortableness..... that’s why they aren’t really engaged
They are realising for the first time that they have been traumatised lying to themselves and properly seeing their privilege for the first time and it isn't pretty
Thoughtful, provocative, and powerful! It's incredible to me that people refuse to accept that an institution so vile as slavery (as well as the practices/laws/ that continued after slavery),would not continue to have residual effects.
I’ve watched this several times myself. Dr. DeGruy and the lecture are both powerful.
I watched this lecture so many times I can damn near quote it line for line. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
ME TOO!!
This excellent presentation gives a name and definition to the result of the many stories I heard while growing up. My grandparents were traumatized, not only from their lives but the lives of their parents... which in turn affected my parents and then affected me...I'm 60 and have my own stories. My sons and grandsons have theirs.....and yet we live....
This is so necessary! Brothers and Sisters, please share this with friends and fam. This information needs to be taught and absorbed by all of our ppl!
Love watching this when ever I come in contact with it❤😊
Wow!! I wish there was a part two! 👏🏾👏🏾. This still rings true 14 years later!
I do not promote racism but I cannot imagine interracial relationships and marriages being without a certain amount of discomfort in the light of all this.
Do u think that u could marry interracial ?
@@ga9100 I think anyone must be crazy to actually do it, it's just... after watching this.... is it even possible?
@@joanaherreryana9 why crazy and where I'm from u 👀it all the time and when blk women get white males they submitt to them when a BLK man asks then they go crazy
@@ga9100 hey sorry, I didn't understand what you meant? sorry :) could you re-write it with a different wording? English is not my language. And what I meant by my previous comment is that, someone non-black can understand what blks went through but no one can understand it better than themselves. And I bet there's some nice black women out there, just gotta keep searching brother :D
@@joanaherreryana9 my I ask what ethnicity are you,I'm not looking 🤣🤣🤣and thanks for that
But they want us to ignore this and act like it never happened
Yep, you nailed it! I'm a white woman in disgust of my own.
B Thompson It’s those who think like you who keep this systemic problem going. Just because it doesn’t happen to you, and you can’t imagine it, doesn’t make it false. We can ignore it everyday and pretend it doesn’t exist, but it’ll still exist. It’s like ignoring COVID-19, continuously repeating out loud that it doesn’t exist just because it hasn’t happened to us. Pretending Covid-19 is real doesn’t make its existence any less real. Same applies with systemic racism and the continuing trauma. It’s like the 12 steps in AA. The first is to admit that there is a problem. As long as you say there’s no problem, blaming the victims for being victimized, you are closed-minded and will never see the problem. Please don’t think I’m being mean when I say this because I’m not. But if you choose not to see the problem, the best thing you can do for the rest of us is to respectfully keep silent and let us fight the battle until you DO see the problem. When we make things better for us, they automatically get better for everyone. Fighting against this systemic problem is indeed how we “captain our own ship”.
@B Thompson It doesn't make any sense to you because it's not targeted at you. This isn't retroactive thinking, nor is it a belief in "past life regression". This is reality, Black Americans' lived experiences on a daily basis. (Actually, Black people all over the world live the same experiences, although unique to their countries). Racism still happens today. As time passed and things changed, it takes on the form that is conducive to the time. For example, prior to the Civil Rights Act, Black people were constantly harassed, terrorized, tortured, lynched, and killed, (in public) for no other reason except that racists wanted to do whatever it is they did. After the Civil Rights Act, the public acts were illegal, but they'd still harm/kill/hang Black people in cover of darkness, from under their KKK hoods. What I'm saying is ALL POST SLAVERY! So, what we're talking about isn't slavery's past. It's present day because the torture and oppression haven't stopped. I don't know what you're talking about when you mention "don't vote campaigns...slavery was justified..." parts. I've never heard of that. If by continuing to deny it, you will never see it because you will never experience. Just know that our lived experiences are much different from yours. As I said, simply because it doesn't happen in your lived experience doesn't mean it's not real.
The best speech ever given in the history of all speeches. Comprehensive and gripping! Wow she really did such an amazing job on this entire speech. Sooooo beautifully done.
Dr Joy I continue to revisit this there’s so many jewels in here. You’re a true gem thank you!
This lecture was 4 years ago . Now wr are in 2020 and we are seeing exactly what she teaching.
So true!!!
2022 now and still the same, I’m tired
I love her work and conversational style. Her and Dr. Amos Wilson are very important to read, listen to and understand for every African American.
I just cried after watching this and actually relate to it in 2022 is crazy, 2008 when this video was made is been a long time.
Wow! This was powerful. They don't teach you this kind of history in school. Thank you Dr. DeGruy.
she's a very smart woman! I could watch her for hours but instead Im act on the truth that she shared with me!!!
Peace. I've watched and studied Dr. DeGruy Leary for some years now. She is amazing and her research is on point! I had to come back to watch this again for my law firm and an upcoming online show I'm doing on our women being abused and mistreated historically.
I remember watching this years ago. I need to watch this again.
I been revisiting and sharing this video actively on social media these past few days. I find it's one of the best ways to get through to people to help them understand what is happening, why people are protesting and why they are angry.