I happened to stumble across Randy Cassingham's story from a decade ago regarding a Beaverton guy who beat his two year-old son to death:
Slave owners beat their slaves, says attorney Randall Vogt. Therefore, it's "justified" for black men to beat their sons. Vogt is defending Isaac Cortez Bynum, who beat his 2-year-old son to death, and says he'll use a "post traumatic slave syndrome" defense "in a general way" in Bynum's Beaverton, Ore., murder trial. "If you are African American and you are living in America, you have been impacted," says Joy DeGruy-Leary, assistant professor at Portland State University's Graduate School of Social Work, who originated the slave syndrome theory.
"Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome"? Coming from PSU, that's about expected. No Joy there; they grow prime vegetables at PSU. Where to begin on this? How about the fact that many so-called "African-Americans" can't even locate the continent of Africa on a map?
How about that the USA ended slavery with the 13th Amendment in 1865 (though the Civil War effectively ended the practice immediately prior to enactment)?
How about the fact that this guy, in 2004, was never a slave, and never knew anybody who was enslaved?
How about admitting that PSU's Joy is just full of it?
There's a reason why "Social Work" is generally not regarded as having any value as a course of study - and even less as a "profession".
