Hmmmmm.......

Dr. Drew Pinsky, co-host of Loveline and formerly in my opinion, a cheezy dork because of the aforementioned program wrote an amazing book that completely turned my opinion of him on its head. I like that. And I love this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Anyway, remember that post that supposed Black people possibly suffer from PTSD due to the simple fact of existing in a society that, not too long ago, believed they were inferior and, longer than not too long ago...but not such a long time, considered them property? Well, there's a line in Dr. Pinsky's book that reinforced that possiblity...at least in my mind.

"You know what picture I'm getting?" a man in front says. "I see one of those Japanese soldiers coming out of the jungle after hiding for thirty years because he didn't know the war had ended. You don't know anything that's going on. You don't know who to trust or which side you're on. Your instinct would be to turn around and run back into the jungle, where it was safe."

I'm not saying that black people want to run back into slavery, but I am theorizing that the not knowing....who to trust, which side to be on...causes a state similar to the hypervigilance common in PTSD patients. And, quite possibly, the reason why Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continuously seek out "racist" situations to champion.

Just a thought.