A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma

[@DLFfitness1]

So many folks are dealing with mental illness as a result of the trauma that have experienced.

[@satouhikou1103]

True. My white ancestors were enslaved by yours. So you owe me reparations.

[@poockat5962]

It explains our illnesses such as high blood pressure, cancer, and kidney diseases and don't forget mental illness. Like he said adrenaline is supposed to be in short bursts, yet we experience adrenaline 24 hours a day. We are the descendants of the creators of this world. We are not a broken, just living with a structure that was and is set up to break us. It's a heavy load to carry throughout your existence. #treatyourtrauma

[@mattmiller2842]

This is not how that works.

[@poockat5962]

@@mattmiller2842 Making some soup for the soul. Want some..

[@mattmiller2842]

@@poockat5962 you know what? I'd like that.

[@nilist9995]

It explains nothing. Notice how he focuses on the narrative and NOT the science. The science he is purporting to use contradicts everything he is saying. Don’t be fooled.

[@brn2pil928]

@@nilist9995 can you give a resource

[@syrhusprod]

Everyone in the comments didnt even watch the whole thing. He talks about how poor white people experience the same thing.

[@bobbymat6451]

Literally every species in the world has passed down “trauma” to their off spring. Why do they think every species instinctively knows who their predictors are…some species like rats can actually smell their predators. It’s passed down through dna and it’s basic science. I think they just refuse to acknowledge it when it comes to black people and other people of color.

[@cupguin]

@Animosity Jones very true.

[@Komodo1312]

@@bobbymat6451 Stop being such a pseudoscience fool. Mice are afraid of cats because the ancestors of mice that werent afraid of cats got killed and therefore didn't have offspring! It's called evolution and it doesn't evolve pseudoscientific epigenetic theories!

[@gheorghezugravu]

@@Komodo1312 well said!

[@bobbymat6451]

Frenk Spring in ‘t veld imagine replying about something being a “pseudoscience” while referring to something that’s considered a pseudoscience as well. Also your reasoning for why mice are afraid of cats can still be used for humans. So now we’re at the same place as before as to how trauma can be passed down from offspring. Your a surface level “critical thinker” and it shows buddy.

[@la381]

I'm a woman of color, a double whammy, and this video was critical to watch. Thank you so much. Edit: WHY does this video only have 57K views in over a year????

[@Pou1gie1]

Because ppl, especially non-Black ppl, don't want to look at anti-Black racism and its impacts. Look at how the US is trying to delete Black history! The other question is... why are there more thumbs down then thumbs up on this video?

[@thankuwelcome2153]

Victimhood at an all time high.

[@larsfinlay7325]

why are you talking about yourself?

[@petersaint5581]

@V N abolition of slavery. And then FDR's great society, almost 100 years ago

[@CARBONHAWK1]

@@petersaint5581 abolished was not because of the “morality” it was more so to destroy the South economically. Black people never really got what they were due. Here comes the welfare comments

[@thankuwelcome2153]

@@CARBONHAWK1 if black people Invested half of the energy that they do on obsessing over white people into their own community then we will start seeing some results. And I’m black so I know.

[@petersaint5581]

@@CARBONHAWK1 I don't really care why it was abolished

[@1esp1es98]

I think how society treated black people back in the days was horrible and it still affects there rights and how they act today. white folks never ever gone through something as terrible as that. I live in the Netherlands and we occupied Suriname and we still have a lot of families living here and from that time of opression you still see the damage it has done to the suriname people. girls with that etnicity still don’t say a lot in school here because of what happened back in the day. that is what he means right? It is horrible. The only thing we as white people can do is really be open and listen to black people and their stories. Otherwise we will never ever understand and sympathize. Without that we will never solve this problem. And believe me i think 90 procent of white people don’t think this problem exists because they simply never dealt with it themselves. For those folks.. wait till you hear the stories of racism and discrimination yourself. It will shock you. You won’t even know how to react. It hurts me a lot that I live in a society where racism still happens every day. White privilege and comfort exists and it hurts me to see how many white folks think that is bullshit. (sorry for the bad english)

[@sabbrinam]

So many people think that if you ignore the problem it will go away.. but if african Americans did that there wouldn'tve been a civil war 🤔 I also think denial is with Americans who don't want change, which is why they don't sympathize. They don't want to give up their comfort to benefit someone else. A mass entitlement. What african americans are asking isnt even much though, they just want to be listened to 🥺

[@1esp1es98]

@@queenme7401 Yes it is true. I hope someday.. There is a great discomfort from both ‘sides’ and we need to get through that. As white folks we need to take it in and recognize what we never recognized. For white people this will feel like admitting something and that is exactly what it is. There comes a lot of discomfort with this but I think if enough people talk about it (also white people) we will eventually make it happen. Especially with the youth we can try. Have conversations about racism and discrimination really early on. So kids can already start to sympathize. Kids don’t see colors. Also me (I’m 21) started looking into this problem a lot more the last year and also trying to spread awareness. This generation can hopefully mean something. At least I’m going to try. I want to make a difference even though it is just my family who will try to learn and understand black history and white comfort and privilege. I hope more people will do this. Just start a conversation about this issue or straight up ask someone who dealt with racism and discrimination how they feel or what they been through. Of course there are more factors but I wish everyone just talked to one another. And I have no clue if it’s going to get better in America but I can hope right? Not only for American also for my own country and for the whole world. I know it will never disappear but if everyone had more knowledge we are 1 step further.

[@1esp1es98]

@@sabbrinam Yes I also see that here in the Netherlands. White people just always had that comfort and don’t even know it exists. They live in there own white bubble and think it is the same for everyone else. But if you bike 10 minutes out of the centre of my rich white neighborhood you will see that there are almost no white people there mostly people of colour with a much lower income living in much smaller houses. Even here it is segregated like that.. Also the schools here.. and if I talk to white people I know about this a lot of them will tell me that what I am saying is not true and that the Netherlands had equal rights for everyone! It hurts me. They don’t even want to listen. Can’t even imagine how bad it is in America

[@thijsbergman2424]

A lot of people can't stand to even listen to someone talk about internalised trauma, which I contribute to internalised trauma. Humanity is a fucking ouroboros you guys

[@Electronite1978]

What I find frightening is not the fact that someone makes unbelievable claims but the fact that a "journalist" takes it all in without a shadow of doubt, no questions asked.

[@thdgcfx]

Just look at her and you'll understand why

[@sadejones6657]

What did he make u uncomfortable?

[@hernibs874]

What specifically do you find to be "unbelievable claims"? Do you know which ones those are?

[@dekippiesip]

@@hernibs874 I don't know, but that's not my job. The claims aren't as obvious as the claim that the earth is round, they need defending. A good journalist would ask him critical questions about his claims. If he provides sharp awnsers and succesfully defends his position all the better! That means we learned something.

[@betsyc6055]

What part don’t you believe? His book is evidence based. Do you even know what that is?

[@ngreflections]

The notion of shared suffering becoming mistaken as culture rings so true! The paradigm of physical violence on children as effective parenting (ie the chancla in Latin American culture) is something that we collectively believe in as important to “toughen up” kids and educate them. It is interesting that we take this violence as something that we need to pass on, as a trauma response.

[@carlinsmith4631]

I don't know why people are acting like this is laughable or fake. The psychological explanations and parts of the brain he mentions are factual, routinely-used terms from Trauma-Informed Care training. I appreciate you Resmaa.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

The terms he used are indeed real and clinically accurate, it’s how he presents this narrative that trauma is inheritable is what’s being scrutinized, because that’s not how the human brain works. There is no cognitive mechanism that enables the inheritance of stress related trauma, while altered brain chemistry can be inherited (which is still a subject of debate) this is by no means unique to any given racial demographic and can be found in all people.

[@JesusIsLordLasVegas]

@Sensei Tubagoo13 That's false.

[@JesusIsLordLasVegas]

@@henrylivingstone2800 It's called Epigenetics. Look it up. The trauma cased by whites against blacks in the U.S., Caribbean, and beyond is RECENT trauma as well, thereby lending additional credence & validation to his analysis. If you are not a descendant of slaves, please keep your mouth shut as you wouldn't know & are unqualified to be offering an opinion here.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

@@JesusIsLordLasVegas If you’d bothered to have looked at my retort posted above you’ll not that the findings of that particular study was flawed and had a sample size so small that a positive correlation was inevitable. Recent trauma in no way lends credence or validation to his ludicrous theory that trauma is hereditary. No scientific or clinical experiment/study has indicated that trauma is hereditary. This is not a matter of social sensibilities it is about science and purely that. I don’t give two shits if your black, white, red, blue or purple! The color of your skin doesn’t give you any particular insight into the biological mechanisms responsible for hereditary characteristics, it doesn’t matter if I’m not black my understanding of basic psychological mechanisms gives me credence to speak upon the subject. I don’t care whether or not you are a “defendant of a slave”, the science does not support this ludicrous theory.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

@@JesusIsLordLasVegas If you’re not willing to speak like a respectable adult, sit down and shut up.

[@jme5970]

Vice has become the opposite of the very thing that made the channel successful

[@hernibs874]

In what way? What exactly is the objection here?

[@jme5970]

@@hernibs874 It used to be gritty, real life, unseen, cutting edge material. Now it's whiny left wing complaining..Gay, trans, hedonistic issues presented by demasculinized men or defeminized women making accusatory articles with little or no public interest

[@Meta_Mez]

Agreed

[@JokersAce0]

@@jme5970 lol just ignoring all the groundbreaking stuff going on, they are literally still going to places you are too afraid to go, with the exception that they are little less focused on really low brow cheap shot stuff, like poop on african beaches

[@lilycrip3329]

Why do they keep posting ridiculous thing like this, they always get tonnes of dislikes. It's literally just pseudoscience.

[@hubertcumberdale2651]

the company is infused with so much cash they can just operate at losses seemingly indefinitely. Only the narrative matters.

[@fleshreap]

Vice are hardcore into S&M.

[@bigedfromny6037]

I think it's cool to hear a few oddball theories every once in a while, especially if they hit the mainstream like this guy's book did. But DYOR if you think this guy is not nuts.

[@HiAdrian]

They also tend to get tons of _views._ Online media has created perverse incentives and it's eating up western society.

[@johnsoutherland3403]

To continue the Marxist, black supremacist agenda is why they continue to put out crap like this.

[@Ur-bad-_-if-i]

Lmao I’ll always laugh at how there’s more dislikes than likes

[@kovy689]

Lol

[@suggadeg]

Vice is a fucking joke. When Gavin left, that was it for Vice.

[@HighkEdits]

@@suggadeg when Disney bought it*

[@chada.3382]

White Fragility. Anytime race is a topic it triggers white people because they feel some type of resentment because they are uncomfortable with the subject and assume people wanna rag on whites.

[@cmanycrows8400]

@@chada.3382 lol ... No

[@jme5970]

I read a book last week. I'm a therapist now

[@JesusIsLordLasVegas]

Typical white supremacist response.

[@jme5970]

@@JesusIsLordLasVegas It's the only possible explanation

[@JesusIsLordLasVegas]

@@jme5970 The man is more educated, accomplished, & deep-thinking thinking than you'll ever be. Try again.

[@jme5970]

@@JesusIsLordLasVegas I'm more than familiar with everything he talks about. It's common knowledge, armchair psychology, applying theory to loose fitting circumstance. Stupid people see genius everywhere. He's not a psychologist or a psychiatrist..I am more qualified than this dude because I have a degree that's academcially recognised and internationally accepted. This man actually has ZERO credentials in psychology. He studied sociology in the early 80s and then social work in the 90s. He's absolutely not an academic. The only reason he's on your screen is because he's loud, in your face and he's a black man who can speak in a way that's respectable. His theory on stress hormones leading to genetic expression of predetermined behaviours in the next generation is not a scientific theory. He doesn't back it with any scientific reasoning and frankly exposes his lack of scientific understanding by saying this

[@sonyalea]

@@jme5970 it’s more honest to say that the science is mixed on epigenetics. Several studies out of Holland and the NIEHS are showcasing that the potentially reversible epigenetic dysregulations may also have an important role in the disease origin. Mr Menakem is spot on in conveying this wisdom in a way that it can be heard, a gift many academics lack.

[@clarabeatriz9451]

Most economists expect the unemployment rate - which counts how many people are able to work and want a job, but can't find one - to rise this year. And the government haven't said anything regarding the lockdown in Washington and New York City😫😫

[@eugenejesse6462]

BITCOIN IS THE ONLY TRUE DEMOCRACY EVER EXISTS IN THE WORLD💰

[@ericgloria9862]

What about DOGECOIN/ETHER?

[@jaypedro4343]

@@ericgloria9862 Dogecoin takes 10 minutes. Scrypt mining is mostly faster, so Btcoin only takes about a minute! Difficulty - It's a number that shows how hard it is to mine a certain coin.

[@douglasjones8979]

I've heard a lot once i receive my stimulus check I'll be starting an investment in crypto currency known as Bitcoin trading it's really a life changer

[@waynebilly6667]

Yeah not everyone noticed people will be kicking themselves in few weeks if they miss the opportunity to buy and invest in bitcoin

[@fabrizio483]

Racism is a lucrative business, and this guy is proof of that. With what money would he feed and clothe himself if racism were not an issue?

[@sadejones6657]

What did he make u uncomfortable?

[@meyou3772]

Racism and chattel slavery built and established America's economy

[@fabrizio483]

@@sadejones6657 I'm sorry?

[@vapidculture]

Nope, his is just a specialized therapist and author. It's pathetic how angry people get about healing.

[@BigManUndead]

​@@vapidculture He's a glorified Peter Popoff who subs Jesus for "trauma" and the devil for "white comfort." It's a con to make money off of guilty white liberals.

[@verlinjoseph5438]

Shout out to vice for this story. Any story like this will always receive more hate than love from the masses but a lot of us still appreciate this content

[@zakattack7799]

Nope just you. Lol

[@mattmiller2842]

What's good about this story?

[@vilanyas.1808]

I sure do! Fascinating stuff!!

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Don’t be confused there is a huge difference between a therapist and a psychiatrist or a psychologist. The first requires no medical training or clinical experience the latter two examples are recognized tightly regulated medical fields with standards. His title “racial trauma specialist” means nothing, that is not a recognized branch of psychology. Now there is precedent to the argument that brain chemistry resulting from trauma can be genetically passed down but that isn’t unique to any race. Any person subjected to unusually high levels of stress can be subject to that genetic characteristic. However, it is by no way unique to black people so there is no point in citing it to support some kind of race based genetic deficiency. This man’s argument is conjecture not science. It is more speculation than it is science. It’s absolutely ridiculous, and I’m surprised that any institution has given him a position to propagate such outright falsehoods.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

@Happy Go Lucky The important thing is, therapists unlike licensed medical professionals cannot prescribe medication, that is what’s important. Advice is not the same as psychiatric treatment.

[@syrhusprod]

He actually starts talking about how poor white people experience the same thing like 5 minutes in.

[@hernibs874]

I would like to know what is "absolutely ridiculous" about it.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

@@hernibs874 What’s “absolutely ridiculous” is that the man has set a goal in mind and is using pseudo science to support his claim. He is in no way an expert on the field and shouldn’t be presenting himself as such as it leads to the impression he knows what he’s talking about. There is no inheritable “trauma gene” that’s not how it works. Trauma related mental disorders are not genetic and are induced by episodic causation events that lead to whatever mental disorder. He notes that brain chemistry can change and can be hereditary, and while that it is true it is not unique to black people or “descendants of slaves” and in fact can be found in any array of people having faced hardships. So this isn’t really a matter of black people being so damaged by society it has become hereditary, this is more of a matter concerning social change. But the framing of the video suggests that there is something deeper than there actually is, that’s why it’s “absolutely ridiculous”.

[@rebeccalemke3658]

Look up epigenetics

[@opraiderman904]

This video is racist trauma.

[@CARBONHAWK1]

It hurt your ego?

[@reym7140]

@@CARBONHAWK1 N

[@CARBONHAWK1]

E

[@CARBONHAWK1]

@@kryssygaming09 fail

[@StrangleholdOfTheElite]

Im a published scientist- and I spent my whole life studying science. When I see idiots in the comments talk about how this is "psuedoscience" it makes me very disappointed but also I understand- I understand that I had a privledged education. A world class education, and its my job to use that education to teach others that this science is real, its proven, and we need to do better as a society - for our children's futures.

[@amyevans1118]

It breaks down the body and the mind. I'll just say know matter where I'm at I'll position myself in a room with my back against the wall and know the fastest way out of the building, even if that means going threw a closed window in order to keep myself safe. Also I'll know what I can use and pick up in an environment to protect myself. I am Hyper vigilant all the time. I have PTSD and Insomnia. It's not safe for me to sleep at night even though my partner tells me I am safe now. I also scream and physically fight in my nightmares because I'm protecting myself. I physically act out my nightmares. I am safe but my body and mind is alway on Hyper vigilant . It's exhausting. I've been this way for a long time. I'm 51yrs old and I'm tired and I need to change. I need to do this work to change. Peace and Love to you all.

[@joelkoffi2806]

🙏🏾❤️ Jesus saves , bless you

[@NegitiveFeedback]

Vice is so insufferable sometimes

[@kovy689]

Sometimes?

[@kovy689]

Like you?

[@NegitiveFeedback]

@Westminster lol. If you'd rather listen to therapists with cartoon deer hoodies suggesting the way to solve institutional issues is by supporting napping, that's your prerogative. I'd rather watch real news

[@NegitiveFeedback]

@Westminster cool, you have sources on topics I find utterly a waste of time. Color me impressed.

[@cosmickid6982]

7:24 completely wrong science .. vibration sensation is done by the dorsal column of the spinal cord and the gut feeling he is talking about is completely unrelated ...vagus nerve does effect our gastrointestinal system at the site of food and gut feelings are not part of that.. thing is this man is raising some genuine questions but the logic or explanations he is using are modified according to his own understanding of the things....still it is something to think about ..but really the scientific part of it is pretty incoherent

[@rosshoover6986]

Your opinion

[@adamdodda3275]

@@rosshoover6986 that's not how anatomy works, Ross.

[@akwaabab8504]

What are your qualifications?

[@nfbconnect]

I’m a white woman who has such severe PTSD that my nervous system started attack my own body and I developed a disease that is classified as the most painful disease a human can experience. Everyday I feel the pain of my bones breaking and being lit on fire. I’m learning to fight back by incorporating practices in my life that actual rewire my neural pathways through meditation, medication, diet, and exercise. I got a service dog who saved my life. There’s not really a reprieve ever but I can’t give up. I’m grateful for this man talking about the generational effect of trauma on the nervous system. I’m studying to to be an advocate for crime victims and the advocacy for trauma is growing. It’s to be there for people in the moment. That’s why I’m focusing on crisis intervention. There are people studying this thankfully. You can alter the effects on the nervous system, adrenal system and the lizard brain, but this has been harder than any of the assaults, rapes, abuse and violence I’ve experienced that caused this to begin with. Also, it sounds a bit crazy but he is 100% right about napping. My doctor told me this and it is helping. And for those who say my whiteness got me help bc I must be rich... I’m not, I have no help, I ended up homeless.

[@PHlophe]

M-ay girl i hear but this is not about you .

[@rwilson4991]

I thank you for sharing. It is about you, too. Keep helping yourself. Keep reaching for the light. We are all in this together. Not the same but together.

[@notwwwansik]

@@PHlophe +++++

[@Tis_I_SirJames]

If this were actually true, then Native Americans wrote the book on this topic. Don't believe this fool.

[@yusukeminazuki9109]

What’s the name of the book?

[@downsjmmyjones101]

Why does that mean he shouldn't be believed?

[@TheGoodfellas44]

Blacks in America don't know how lucky they really are to be here. Take a month trip to Nigeria to get some perspective

[@CARBONHAWK1]

So because there are shittier parts of the world, they can stfu? Do you hear yourself?

[@juiceizinfinite]

Smh

[@rashad123us]

*Scientific evidence: *backs up man's claims** *Comment section:* 😤😭😭

[@drowgoddess9049]

what evidence? lol

[@rashad123us]

@@drowgoddess9049 Google the terms and topics he brings up. Scientists have been looking into this for decades

[@felixdesrosiers8025]

@@rashad123us can you link to evidence supporting this man’s claims? I know nothing about the topic and english isn’t my first language so i’m not even sure if i’m googling the right words. Thanks in advance to anybody who does so!

[@christyn2430]

White woman here. The science can be argued because we have uneven standards of science in this country and sometimes the science proved what we already know to be true. What cannot be argued are the results of Mr Menakem’s work. I have been engaged in somatic healing work for several years now and then applied his techniques. Our personal healing cannot be divorced from how the “Whole” (family, ancestors, history culture) has been a part of us. I’ve found connections between inherited personality traits which were noted responses to trauma (thanks to a family line with detailed written history) and my role in upholding what he calls “white comfort.”And I am healing and from healing I am thinking and behaving differently. I see differently. This has been such a profound gift. reading and learning cognitively only goes so far in creating change. I could know the “right” things and have a heart that laments in facing the reality of it all, but until I got to the triggered body responses (that didn’t make any sense given all of the “work” I’ve done) I didn’t truly have a way forward. I couldn’t see my “part” beyond joining one side of an argument about whether racism exists. This work has taken me out of reactive action and put me in a place of real change...starting with me. At this point, I see what I didn’t before, so I am on this path for the long haul. Thank you to the scientists and experts of somatic trauma healing and to Mr Menakem who sees and write and speaks to us about a real way forward. A way that honors all of us in our humanity and doesn’t flinch at being honest about what we’ve all been thru and where it’s brought us. That’s why it works. It honors the human process. There’s no shame in that. There’s just work to do.

[@Nedula007]

sounds like you need to put the peace pipe down

[@milesames5056]

@@Nedula007 this is a racist statement. Say it differently?

[@Nedula007]

@@milesames5056 Nope lmao

[@Loveispeacej]

​@milesames5056 you need to put the pipe down too

[@eldridgedavis]

I'm so glad I live in a country that doesn't have to deal with this crap. You Westerners got it superbad..

[@jevinday]

Where do you live? Will they accept me? I'm from America. Hahahahaha

[@PHlophe]

Eldridge you have a whole british name c'mon

[@hottafyah6278]

“The truth is an offense but not a sin” - Bob Marley keep telling the truth regardless of who it offends!!!!

[@F3bzer]

b o b

[@harrystokes2598]

Racist

[@psulionz87]

@@harrystokes2598 Yes, we know you're a racist, Harry

[@kick01iv3r]

I was half expecting this guy to start talking about flat earth science.

[@psulionz87]

you calling flat earth a science is all I need to know about you 🤡

[@kick01iv3r]

@@psulionz87 you not percieving the sarcasm in my post is all I need to know about you.

[@harutyunyan93]

That tells a whole lot about your attention span and unwillingness to challenge your views and nothing about the interviewers knowledge.

[@kick01iv3r]

@@harutyunyan93 I watched the whole thing. And the whole point of me clicking on the video was to challenge my views.

[@harutyunyan93]

@@kick01iv3r watching the whole video doesn't say anything about your attention span.. You can sit at a lectures for hours without remembering anything... The point i made was comparing a therapists take to flat earth (when the therapist does substantiate his views) is just silly. I have issues with the video. It's too vague on some concepts and keeps it at a surface level. But the concepts and understanding of trauma caused by racism is an important topic. Trauma in general is serious. But if there is a constant supply of trauma to large subset of population, we can explore and try to reduce it...

[@create2liberate]

Resmaa's wisdom and Truth is so so important right now. Committed to this in my own life and community 100%. "There's a perception that whiteness is working out for white people. But it isn't. White people are giving up part of their humanity to participate. The advantages given to them are for a price." What he says about the vagal nerve - wow!!

[@Komodo1312]

Loony

[@mikepcs7]

Weather its racial,religion,caste it applies in all structures. Humanity is the answer. Future generations must be free from these toxic elements

[@PHlophe]

Uncle singh , when a Punajbi refuses to marry a Gujarati

[@mikepcs7]

@@PHlophe grow up kid... i dont believe in such corrupted ideas. And i am not punjabi for your info😂

[@InspiredByReason]

This guy needs a helmet and floaty armbands to match his glasses repping the Westside of the bell curve.

[@matts3729]

Savage 😂

[@ThumbDr]

Damnnnnnn that’s messed up

[@petersaint5581]

Dude, that's like three cold disses in one comment. I'm impressed.

[@mwa1254]

Love it

[@akwaabab8504]

You need to be institutionalized.

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

This is complete BS and I love watching VICE for its purposeful opinion videos that are really a disconnect from real America. No one here is an expert other than from their own reality and what fits that reality. It’s certainly not mine. I’m a 53 year old black male. One of three children to a 80 plus year old black mother from Nebraska who was raised in Compton and an 80 plus year old black dad raised in Watts. They are still together from having met in high school. Off topic and to my point… I am light skinned with Hazel eyes. Our parents put us in private from day one and then wanted us to attend the public school system starting in 6th grade. All three of us followed through in this format. Do you want to know where the RACISM came from (that I experienced) and how bad it still exists today? I’ll let you guess…it wasn’t/isn’t from “The White Man”. The best part is that the way our parents raised us we had the strength to endure it and to work with it and through it. I'm glad my parents gave me the brains to allow "Logic", "Emotion", "Common Sense" and "Intellect" to meet at a 4 way stop and proceed without an incident. We were not programmed to think that somehow and someway that we were less than or better than any other member of society…the beauty of perspective is that I am one of few people who can speak authoritatively about Black on Black racism and not be traumatized, bitter, angry, jaded or any other verb or adjective. Well, I can be saddened by people whom have been programmed or are ignorant. Anyways, This BS here in this video is for people with tunnel vision.

[@ronniematthews3408]

Thank u sir

[@CARBONHAWK1]

So because of that... the totally engaged the historical context of racism completely because of what you experienced in some school... totally logical.

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

@@CARBONHAWK1 What you just wrote makes no sense and you clearly didn’t grasp anything I wrote. I went to three private schools and three public schools. None of which has nothing to do with all years of living, working, engaging, creating, helping and demonstrating positive living and self worth, common sense, intellect, personal responsibility..etc on my way to being a 50 plus year old male who is a contributor to society.

[@CARBONHAWK1]

@@ZEPRATGERNODT Ok explain to me how the black community fell. It was fine and dandy during the 30-60s then all the sudden all the men decided to sell drugs and join gangs... so you telling me there were no external factors that played a role? It’s was just personal responsibility up the ass all the way despite the clear wealth discrepancies many faced. Yea.. everyone sure can “personal responsibility”yourself into a suburb.

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

@Happi Vengeance and Hate displaces the space for things that help move us forward. However, Those that want to move society towards a specific realm have and are doing a great job at having pawns navigate the chessboard. There is a bigger picture here and I’m not falling for looking backwards to find a way to exact someones else’s psychological tactics to have a sense of purpose.

[@charlieparmenter5585]

society is doomed

[@s.f7778]

Your very right about that, but I mean imagine a perfect society, it’s impossible

[@akwaabab8504]

The terrorists are doomed. Like the Phoenix, we will rise above the ashes.

[@hiddensalami4334]

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this, does that count as white comfort?

[@Chez114]

You own a chair? Your white comfort is offensive to my sensitive sense of sensibilities 🤣

[@davidz2808]

There's no science backing these claims.

[@Tigergrrll]

Epigenetics

[@hosephanerothe1440]

‘Therapist and Racial Trauma Specialist’ - - what a joke

[@eldridgedavis]

What I heard was: Shyster.

[@KillahManjaro]

Dr. Joy Degruy spoke about this a few years ago. She has a few lecture on YT.

[@alisonscholefield4189]

I am reading My Grandmother’s Hands and it’s incredibly powerful. I believe in this work and will continue.

[@ride-or-DIY]

Incredible book

[@travelingjohn69]

Thanks for being a White alley to us.

[@sadejones6657]

Looks like he made a lot of "people" uncomfortable

[@Katie2986]

The hateful ignorant comments here make me wonder if there is any hope.

[@TheGoodfellas44]

SJW

[@juiceizinfinite]

I feel the same. Like epigenetic isn't a proven science lmao

[@CARBONHAWK1]

You can’t reason with people who will do anything to maintain power, they will gaslight and present pathetic half-assed arguments in an attempt to derail the conversation.

[@ronniematthews3408]

This video is hateful

[@hubertcumberdale2651]

Katie ..... I bet you thank god everyday your name isn't Karen lol

[@KurlandHickory]

All I see are two Americans discussing their woes. I bet the people in Congo don't have that liberty.

[@abihart6246]

Black American issues are different than issues in the Congo. Black Americans lost all their ties to Africa because of slavery so why are you suggesting their issues would be the same?

[@stevenzerbach6447]

Picture, if you will, seven tiny faucets within the human body: one each for adrenaline, noradrenaline, and cortisol and one each for dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins. The first three are what I call my "nasties", because they make me feel horrible when their faucets open, and they cause fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. The last four are my "warm fuzzies" because when their faucets are open, I want to linger, to continue in the arms of loved ones, to enjoy the safe harbor from the storms of life, which ARE inevitable. Preemptive anxiety post trauma is the result of the first three faucets never fully turning off. As a consequence, these "nasties" leak a little, they drip adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol into my blood as they override my "warm fuzzies". I have lived my entire life in preemptive anxiety caused by the indoctrination of my country as well as the teachings of my father, who was a racist, a bigot and a misogynist. Because I knew that both my country and my father were wrong about damn near everything, I have found myself in a free-fall of cognitive dissonance, you know, between a rock and a hard place. I have yet to stop the pull of gravity, which only ceases with impact. Does this self-knowledge, this knowledge of my species, stop the constant fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses? Not entirely. I am still hypervigilant and hypersensitive; how- ever I am NOT the racist, the bigot, the woman hater, that I was raised to be and had become. I have recoded most of my DNA, and at 71 years young, I wish only to live peacefully, without judgement from myself or on me. As best as I could I have closed and reopened the appropriate "faucets" of my being in an effort to become truly human, as I was at birth. I wish no one my life, even though my growth into being human has been exhilarating and rewarding. I do wish we could eliminate intentioned trauma, here read, "made by others". I do wish that all of us can work toward compassion for ourselves and others. I suppose this is the age-old cliche of "love one another". Con mis abrazos y besos a todos.

[@stevenzerbach6447]

I need to add that I understand black America's generational trauma and preemptive anxiety, and that I hope all, black and white, will eventually heal ourselves from the damage done. This is possible.

[@Charles-yq8vv]

Kind of pseudo-sciency, but whatever.

[@juiceizinfinite]

Actually it's not lmao smh look up epigenetic s it's science science

[@mohamedbenhamida3748]

@@juiceizinfinite Not in the way he putted it.

[@User-54631]

I’m thankful for this man. He answered a question I always had. People have a life alternating event over a 500-1000 ticket or just not showing your license/insurance.

[@ViolenceReality]

That moment when PTSD becomes genetic because “but what happens when you have stress all the time, it ends up in your babies” H U H ? !

[@WrongThink_]

has nothing to do with "stress" and everything to do with Fetal alcohol syndrome, crack babies and damaged prefrontal cortex

[@amyevans1118]

Yes, please hear him out and do your own research on the topic. Good luck and be safe. Peace n Love

[@andreal3832]

It’s like y’all literally don’t know about epigenetics.

[@sufimuslimlion4114]

@@andreal3832 so why don’t u educate us instead of writing the same exact comment 3 times in a row so u can pretend ur knowledgeable

[@shadoeshift6249]

Okay but as someone who has it I can say that this is true.

[@sashablack3227]

Bro I’m a black person, but cover the real... like what the Palestinian are going through.... I’m starting to think you guys got bought too

[@mimikolomamu]

this guy is a Therapist???

[@elitistninja]

He needs a Therapist. The dude is whack

[@mistertjon]

It makes total sense, the fact that all you WS's react negatively only confirms it.

[@vastpeople9623]

He hit a nerve....denial card on play.

[@1OutOf8Billion]

The science he’s referencing is barely explained and it’s in its infancy right now with minimal experiments done to substantiate it. The rudimentary explanation of epigenetics being “on off switches” for DNA aptly sums it up, but the INHERITANCE of those changes are still being studied.

[@senorscarface3057]

Vice was one of the best reporter channels Covering Conflict going on around the world back in the day it’s sad to see that their on this “Woke” bs Now.

[@CARBONHAWK1]

@V N trust me there’s plenty but they love the war and carnage Vice sometimes posts.

[@clicheguevara5282]

@V N He straight up called you guys Commies. That’s pretty direct for “coded” language. ...and I don’t even want to _ask_ how McWhite Supremacy™️ factors into all of this. Y’all are wild. 🤣

[@bigbuddah180]

At the end he was talking about the church of sleep that killer Mike helped start

[@thehomie6059]

grifter speaks for 13 minutes brought to you in part by vice.

[@Bat_Boy]

LUPIN !!

[@RCAVDH]

The victim is strong in this one

[@Tariq-hk8zd]

The like to dislike ratio says it all

[@gabew7480]

Do they really believe this or are they trolling?

[@eldridgedavis]

They believe it

[@TimzOfficial]

After Disney bought this company, it hit its comedown

[@brianallen858]

Damn straight

[@downsjmmyjones101]

How?

[@downsjmmyjones101]

@King Charles How does that mean anything? You're making financial claims without financial evidence.

[@psulionz87]

So, why do you continue to have Vice as your media diet?

[@downsjmmyjones101]

@King Charles How does that kean they've gone downhill since Disney bought them?

[@activatekruger446]

Fortunately for Vice, KZbin has hidden the dislikes

[@kshitijdobriyal3003]

ITS RIGHT NOW 40 LIKES AND 80 DISLIKES

[@activatekruger446]

@@kshitijdobriyal3003 I’m on mobile, and I can see the likes but not the dislikes

[@somi150]

@@activatekruger446 im on mobile can see 76 likes to 106 dislikes

[@Nedula007]

202 dislike an 128 like. I disliked the video without watching because i already know : nonsense.

[@JokersAce0]

Lol right wing trolls like you inundate every video with dislikes at first but gradually the likes completely outnumber the dislikes by a large number. so keep dreaming

[@KodakKid]

I’m just here for all the hypersensitive white centrist’s funny comments.

[@danmystro]

iz wypeepol fault

[@user-rm4ie7zw2g]

we wuz kangz n shieet

[@CARBONHAWK1]

@@user-rm4ie7zw2g We WUZ Aryanz n Shiezzzee

[@KodakKid]

@@danmystro it’s so hard being white aaaaaaaaargh no one knows what it’s liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike.

[@danmystro]

@@KodakKid REEEEEE!

[@ronniematthews3408]

This man in the enterview is doomed. He's filled with stress.

[@monacoofthebluepacific2571]

😪

[@bford5899]

That’s not stress. It’s awareness as to what’s causing stress to Black people. It’s a huge cause of death for Black people. He’s offering a solution to suffering and a name for the condition that affects tens of millions of Black people. He seems calm and instills hope for a better future, IMO. The feeling of doom comes to those that don’t understand what’s going on and why, in Black communities

[@bford5899]

He’s literally giving tips to heal trauma. We’re doomed if we don’t right the ship

[@t0kigh02t7]

What do you even mean by that? Did you not listen to the interview? If so then u are part. Of the problem

[@eatass5627]

@@bford5899 nah he’s made this his identity

[@TheRealOfficialWiseOwl]

The irony of how when we say Black Lives Matter ✊🏿 all of sudden everyone says “all lives matter” but when they say “stop Asian hate” you won’t hear anyone say “stop all hate”.

[@Ben-outdoors]

Hate everyone

[@Ben-outdoors]

No lives matter

[@_jastreb_]

Hate is a legitimate emotion

[@routineparticular7104]

He's just filled with hate. I can't take anything he says seriously

[@sadejones6657]

What did he make u uncomfortable?

[@BrynJonesGryphonboy]

This is horseshit from start to finish.

[@RDC902]

unsubbed. thanks.

[@chimeraelite]

Nah. This ain't it.

[@Samson16667]

I remember a few years ago i came across a lecture called "post traumatic slave syndrome" given by Dr. Joy DeGruy. I guess her work is now getting recognized and given more attention.

[@juiceizinfinite]

Thank you! Someone with knowledge

[@Lessk69]

Considering nobody in the USA has been a slave in their lifetime it's impossible to have such a thing. People don't get PTSD from watching war films. You can't have trauma that doesn't exist.

[@andreal3832]

Epigenetics. Google is your friend.

[@Lessk69]

@@andreal3832 I can google big foot also. It doesn't make it real.

[@hernibs874]

@@Lessk69 "impossible" is big label to post on "post traumatic slave syndrome". Do you say that out of feeling or fact? How will you find out?

[@iloveyouamberappel]

So.. he talked about white people having this trauma from stressors in the medieval times. Do Black people have these same stressors from them mistreating each other long ago? This seems like a lot of hypothetical has his theory been peer reviewed?

[@la381]

The unspoken notions are MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE spoken ones. Sit with that.

[@connielimbrick7054]

Thank you for this interview!

[@Zatvornik]

Be real, go to school, take responsibility for your own life.

[@eldridgedavis]

They don't do responsibility..

[@akwaabab8504]

Change the record! I invite you to get an education and take responsibility for the hell you cause to others while basking in your ignorance!

[@MrMrsmijj]

Nice snake oil you got there

[@aa11ct9]

Implying DNA differences is a dangerous move

[@realitycheck3672]

WTF?

[@astheskylarksings]

My brother was onto something but I think he was nervous. I hope people get the message

[@DATAN420]

Ratioed

[@becauseweare1]

This background music is trauma. Please reconsider and remix.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Epi-genomics: markers that change the way genes express. Over generations, these markers can and do have an effect on progeny. All those who are not educated enough to keep up, go read a book!

[@juiceizinfinite]

Lmao thanks! I though everybody in these comments was ignorant

[@micahrogers7536]

I love seeing at least one good comment

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

Key word generations and there is no proof as to when these generations manifest these things. However, Societal and family programming has a dramatic effect. Go read another book!

[@sabbrinam]

Exactly 💯 this is a real study and snowflakes in the comments are calling it pseudoscience because they're butthurt

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

Stop saying trumps I'm already triggered

[@AurorasJournals]

😂💯

[@kovy689]

Devon larett

[@BadlandsYoga]

Thank you.

[@dougleemiller]

Thank you Resmaa!

[@x2vx2v]

this going a little too far....

[@ecoecho1982]

Brilliant book, brilliant interview. Thanks Vice; keep up the conversation.

[@Jivindox]

I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic or not. God, i hope so. For the sake of humanity and basic human intelligence PLEASE BE KIDDING.

[@nima4797]

@@Jivindox hope so too

[@handlemonium]

Groundbreaking conceptual stuff. Definitely worth sharing.

[@Busied2773]

Why?

[@donttalktostrangers3437]

First dislike

[@not_a_real_person6111]

now i’m first

[@nufh]

Why don't you guys just get along? Keep bringing the past events over and over again. There is one country that trying to take over the world and got nuked twice, they learned from the past events and trying to be better.

[@oop483]

I was suspicious this wasn't gonna be good but this guy is actually really smart. I agree with everything he's saying. He sounds like WEB Dubois.

[@barnabasbaack1237]

Huh?

[@Juan-rx6qj]

Trauma make you don't like to work and go on the easy way out

[@Anti-Ignorance]

Wish someone would have told me that 22 years ago BEFORE I joined the Army, did 3 tours overseas and retired... Then joined law enforcement...

[@Juan-rx6qj]

@@Anti-Ignorance thank you for your service brother

[@Anti-Ignorance]

@@Juan-rx6qj Proud to have served.

[@Juan-rx6qj]

@Animosity Jones vice propaganda is working slaveryng the Minds with false narratives

[@naomitamar8152]

Dig it I just shared this public...thank you so much...🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️

[@driftjunkie6978]

Lololol fala was trying to say racism has affected people but all he could say was me,me,me,me,me,

[@mj3026]

I’m white & I was totally traumatised & I only watched what happened to George so I can’t imagine what it must be like to actually go through it day in day out it’s 2021 & we are so advanced so why are we still in the dark ages when it comes to race it makes me sick because we should all be treated equally no matter what skin colour you have, rip George & to everyone who has been murdered because of there skin colour & let’s hope & pray that something good will come out after all this evil, but it shouldn’t have to take a man’s death to make people stop being racist & police officers to do what there paid to do , to protect us not kill innocent people

[@RG-jf5ep]

You sound 12 so I’ll go easy on you. It’s not police officers or white people killing black people.

[@xenoneuronics6765]

This reminded me of the hippy gibberish you'd hear about a lot from the 60s to the 80s, then it fell out of vogue for awhile. We're all star children who need to relearn to love ourselves and our neighbors

[@vladimirgordiyenko268]

I don’t think he even believes the crap he’s saying.

[@baronfranklin3968]

If someone scares u shitless all the time, that fight, flight reaction all of that adrenaline will cause physical and mental degradation. He is unable to articulate the damage being done because he is beyond frustrated.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Yes that is a true but what isn’t true is that such abnormal brain chemistry can be genetically inherited. And his argument that black people are inherently fearsome of police officers is absolute bullshit, fears of social concepts is more of a learned understanding rather than a natural instinct. He doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

[@baronfranklin3968]

Also check epigenetics, which was what he was trying to say, if organism experiences street in its environment constantly, then it will pass those traits onto its off spring.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

@@baronfranklin3968 I know of the study you speak of and if you’ll recall the findings of that study was denounced as it did not adhere to clinical standards and had a severe fault in its minute sample size. As well as the fact that all the mice were siblings and thus were prone to share similar cognitive reactions to the given stimulus. Several criticisms were reported, including the study's low statistical power as evidence of some irregularity such as bias in reporting results. Due to limits of sample size, there is a probability that an effect will not be demonstrated to within statistical significance even if it exists. The criticism suggested that the probability that all the experiments reported would show positive results if an identical protocol was followed, assuming the claimed effects exist, is merely 0.4%. The authors also did not indicate which mice were siblings, and treated all of the mice as statistically independent. The results of that study were flawed as the sample size was so small a positive correlation was bound to happen and wasn’t indicative of any actual epigenetic change. That’s the problem with charlatans like the man above, he cherry picks studies regardless of their credibility and that presents a dangerous precedent.

[@Janet_Airlines802]

Victim mentality

[@williamwimmer5473]

that therapist hid the calipers for measuring brow ridges fifteen seconds before the vice camera crew showed up lol

[@PoipleBabby]

hell yeah white comfort

[@ktbowersbellsouth]

I just feel like he's saying Trumps repeatedly .. for attention