Post traumatic stress disorder and racism

It is clear to me that the MSM gives a misleading picture of PTSD. There is a false notion that soldiers are the only sufferers of the syndrome.

Objectively, war is an extreme event that nearly obliterates a person's hold on to ordinary life and morality. It's next to impossible to erase this state of mind.

But it's also clear to me now that suffering is subjective, and that any kind of trauma can possibly loop over and over in the mind to the extent that again one can not just "stop the tape". Rape especially, but assault of any kind has this power too over many an ordinary individual. Even accusations or court battles over custody of children can dominate one's thinking for years, forever disallowing any length of tranquility. Reliving any kind of trauma can be debilitating, it can keep an otherwise ordinary individual locked in combat with the present too and thus perhaps this misfortunate one may never reach the joyous goals they may once have dreamed of. This by itself is tragic, regardless the objective intensity of the originating event.

Let me carry this forward into another issue.

It must seem to some that a large percentage of distinct peoples suffer at once from this syndrome, such as Israelis or Palestinians, or struggling black or indigenous communities. But this would be an ignorant trivialization. While this may be true to some extent on an individual basis, the greater the truth is that these groups continue to be at war with, or oppressed by, their nemeses.

Any question of veracity or experience by any outsider is inappropriate, and the raised indignation of such an one whose veracity is in doubt are too easily misunderstood as "rudeness" or "over reactions" — for example, the recent interruption of a political rally in Seattle by two Black Lives Matter activists.  Any suffering must be acknowledged as credible and a symptom of abuse, even and perhaps especially on a grand scale. Black communities in America continue to suffer both the terrible heritage of slavery, but worse still, continue to be held captive by white apologists and now are regularly murdered in the streets by the state's jackals again.

It should also be said that the Main Stream Media exacerbates the crisis by mischaracterizing it. It's like the boss that says: "Sounds like a personal problem. Get back to work!".  But there is no going back to normalcy post racism, because racism continues and on an impersonal and detached level of awareness. Contaminating the big picture, the textbook memory of America's past, is the recurring fact that it achieved its height of supposed prosperity through slavery and a very real and continued oppression that reignites the painful heritage. How does any one individual override that level of trauma?