One day we’ll be brave enough to have the intergenerational conversation about how older generations of Black folk don’t feel that younger people are legitimate until they go through similar traumas & hardships they did.

And even when younger ppl have (BLM, police brutality, discrimination, etc.), older generations gaslight younger black folks and tell them that it's nothing like back during the “movement days.”

Unlike previous generations, younger Black people don’t see trauma like a badge of honor. Quite the contrary, it is seen as indicator of harm and is sought to repelled and healed from.

Therapy. That’s the antidote.

And I believe that no movement of communal progress for our community can be predicated on trauma any longer.

That organizing principle is outmoded and irrelevant to younger ppl.

cc: AA civil rights orgs/ cultural spaces

Fin.