Black lives matter is not about saying that white people do not face their own set of issues. Yes white people’s lives also includes pain and injustice.

Its about acknowledging Black people’s past as having been victims of Slavery, Jim Crow and other forms of discrimination.

Denying someone’s trauma is what oppressors always do. Things like

“Its not so bad”

“Happens to me too”

“Why aren’t you over it?”

“It your own fault because…”

Exact same thing happens to rape survivors, society tries its hardest to tell them they are overreacting, imagining things or are defective and deserved to be victimized.

I am a PTSD survivor and have done extensive research on this as well as extensive therapy for PTSD recovery.

Validating someone’s trauma is the first step in PTSD recovery and as long as we continue to deny that bad things have happened to Black people their populations won’t be able to recover.

The impact of trauma is cross generational so the impact of slavery on Blacks can be seen today in higher crime rates, less stable marriages etc.

Read about PTSD and trauma and then form your opinion.