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Advance Placement: RACIAL TRAUMA'S IMPACT ON BLACK PEOPLE · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
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  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
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  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
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  Speaker 3: So let's jump in and get started. So, just to
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  Speaker 3: start off, I'll tell you all a little bit about myself.
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  Speaker 3: So my doctorate is in social work. I'm an lcs W.
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  Speaker 3: That's the licensed clinic clinical social worker. I do own
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  Speaker 3: a private practice for mental health. It's called Hall Counseling Services,
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  Speaker 3: and we specialize in treating racial trauma as well as
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  Speaker 3: the queer communities or LGBTQ plus communities. I'm also the
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  Speaker 3: founder of this program called Healing the Whole, and it
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  Speaker 3: is It's a yoga slash psychotherapy program that I developed
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  Speaker 3: along with Marsha Banks Harold. She's a yoga therapist and
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  Speaker 3: the purpose of the program is to heal racial trauma
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  Speaker 3: in African Americans. So, needless to say, this is definitely
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  Speaker 3: a passion of mine and has been I would say
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  Speaker 3: probably my entire life helping black people in particular, So
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  Speaker 3: as a queer Black woman, you know, I definitely make
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  Speaker 3: it my mission to focus on the metal and physical
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  Speaker 3: health needs of the biopop community as well as LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: plus communities. And in my free time, I really enjoy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, traveling, I love speaking. You know, this is
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  Speaker 3: also something that I'm passionate about. You know. I have
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  Speaker 3: people asking me earlier today, they were like, are you
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  Speaker 3: ready for tonight? And I was like, you bet your
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  Speaker 3: bottom dollar, Like I'm so excited about this. And also
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  Speaker 3: I'm really happy to be doing it with Magda, who
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  Speaker 3: I had the opportunity to meet I guess a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months ago at this point. So this is really
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  Speaker 3: really exciting for me for sure. All Right, So I
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  Speaker 3: want to go over some ground rules just because the
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  Speaker 3: nature of our conversation, you know, it's a mental health topic.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to read this just because I want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that everybody is kind of clear on
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  Speaker 3: the expectations around this topic. So, as you know, the
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  Speaker 3: most importantly, please be respectful of everybody in their views
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  Speaker 3: and the experiences that I hope we get to hear
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  Speaker 3: from other people tonight. All right, So now that all
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  Speaker 3: of the yucky administrative stuff is out of the way,
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  Speaker 3: let's jump in, all right, So what is racial trauma.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually curious to know how many people have actually
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  Speaker 3: heard of this term before. I feel like it's something
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  Speaker 3: that has come up more and more, maybe over the
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  Speaker 3: past five years or so. But and I think that
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  Speaker 3: people are aware that racism has a huge impact on
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  Speaker 3: communities of color, but I don't know that we've always
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  Speaker 3: known it to be racial trauma. So racial trauma is
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  Speaker 3: the cumulative effects of racism on one's mental and physical health,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been linked to anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and
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  Speaker 3: physical health issues, which I love to add physical health
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  Speaker 3: issues because oftentimes clients come in and they're like, I've
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  Speaker 3: been having these headaches or they complain of you know,
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  Speaker 3: body aches and that type thing, or even high blood pressure,
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  Speaker 3: which is something that we see a lot in the
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  Speaker 3: black community, and they have no idea that it could
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  Speaker 3: be related to racism or the racial trauma that they
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  Speaker 3: experience oftentimes on a daily basis. So there are three
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  Speaker 3: particular ways that black people experience racial trauma that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to focus on tonight, one being police brutality or
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  Speaker 3: police violence, workplace discrimination, and microaggressions because we tend to
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  Speaker 3: experience these these things at disproportionate rates when compared to
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  Speaker 3: other people, other cultures and races. So I want to
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  Speaker 3: quickly go over this particular slide because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people don't know that there's actually a way to measure
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  Speaker 3: racial trauma. There are a lot of clinicians and therapists
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  Speaker 3: who actually don't know that there's a way to measure
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  Speaker 3: racial trauma. Robert Carter, God bless him, he actually came
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  Speaker 3: up with this skill, the Race based Traumatic Stress Symptoms Scale.
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  Speaker 3: I call it the RBT triple S scale just because
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  Speaker 3: it's a tongue twister, but as a part of this scale,
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  Speaker 3: it really gives us the opportunity to dive deeper into
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  Speaker 3: I guess clients stories of racism and their experiences, very
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  Speaker 3: specific experiences that they've had, and then we're able to measure,
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  Speaker 3: you know, these seven different categories of symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christin Nohm, the United States
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day. Imprisoned and deported, you will
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now under President Trump America's laws
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  Speaker 1: border and families will.
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  Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: And which ones stand out the most based on the
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  Speaker 3: racism that they've experienced. So those seven symptoms that are
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  Speaker 3: part of this particular scale are anger, depression, intrusion, so
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  Speaker 3: intrusive thoughts that we may have, hypervigilant, so being super
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  Speaker 3: alert and aware of what's going on around us, or
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  Speaker 3: you know, being worried about what might happen. Physical health
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  Speaker 3: issues which I just talked a little bit about, low
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  Speaker 3: self esteem, and avoidance of you know, certain and things.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you avoid police officers and maybe you avoid you know,
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  Speaker 3: certain stores where you think they may follow you around.
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  Speaker 3: There are different types of avoidance that are related to race.
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  Speaker 3: So let's let's speak specifics. Let's talk about the specifics
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  Speaker 3: of these three different areas. So this graph here is
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  Speaker 3: really important. Essentially, the takeaway from this graph is that
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  Speaker 3: although African Americans comprise roughly thirteen percent of the US population,
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  Speaker 3: we're killed by police officers at roughly twice the rate
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  Speaker 3: of our white counterparts. So you know, we are a
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  Speaker 3: very fairly small population. You know, in the grand scheme
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  Speaker 3: of things, in the us. But the way the rate
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  Speaker 3: at which we are killed by police officers is just incredible.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it really is incredible. And so there's something
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  Speaker 3: to that. So when we think about the the I
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  Speaker 3: think the effects of you know, the black experience, the
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  Speaker 3: interactions that we have with law enforcement. There are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of symptoms. There are a lot of experiences that
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  Speaker 3: we feel as a reaction to that, and I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to cover those very quickly as well as go
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  Speaker 3: over some of the positive takeaways from these interactions, which
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  Speaker 3: can be a hard pill to swallow, but we'll get
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  Speaker 3: there in a moment. So the negative effects that these
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  Speaker 3: experiences have on us, there's there's regular just general trauma.
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  Speaker 3: There's race based trauma. There's race let's see here, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: let's go back. There is race battle fatigue. So some
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  Speaker 3: of these I will explain because some are self explanatory.
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  Speaker 3: Some you may not be familiar with. But race battle
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  Speaker 3: fatigue most of us have probably experienced it to some degree.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we as black folk, we are just tired, like
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  Speaker 3: we are just absolutely exhausted. We are fed up and
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  Speaker 3: we have nothing left to give, right, And so when
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  Speaker 3: you have those moments where maybe you've been like watching,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the news or social media of our people
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  Speaker 3: being killed and shot, et cetera, and you just can't
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  Speaker 3: take it anymore. It's like I'm turning the TV off.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even look at any more of this. Retired,
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  Speaker 3: That's what that is. That's racial battle fatigue. So also
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  Speaker 3: the fear of becoming a trader. You know, how often
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  Speaker 3: is it that we may actually need the assistance of
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement, but we don't want to be the person
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  Speaker 3: to make that phone call. We don't want to be
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  Speaker 3: the ones who call the police and they come out
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  Speaker 3: and potentially harm someone who maybe they should have been arrested,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they just needed to have a conversation, the situation
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  Speaker 3: need to be de escalated, but no one wants to
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  Speaker 3: be that person that actually picked up the phone. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we talk about snitches in our community a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: that's something that no one wants to be called. Also,
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  Speaker 3: anxiety hopelessness PTSD, so post traumatic stress disorder as well
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  Speaker 3: as PTSS. That's something that we'll touch on a little later,
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  Speaker 3: but post traumatic slave syndrome as well as psychological warfare.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, sometimes when we interact with law officers,
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  Speaker 3: they exhibit certain behaviors to intimidate us or to make
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  Speaker 3: us feel, you know, a certain emotional response. So that's
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  Speaker 3: psychological warfare. Also shame, fear, depression, feeling very heavy stress,
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  Speaker 3: of course, grief, anger, and then vicarious trauma is uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's a term that you may have also heard of,
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  Speaker 3: but just in case, I'll explain it. So this is
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  Speaker 3: also called secondary trauma. And this is what I was
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  Speaker 3: actually just talking about seconds ago, which is when it's
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  Speaker 3: when the the experience doesn't happen directly to you. Right,
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  Speaker 3: so when you are on social media and you see
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  Speaker 3: people like you being harmed or killed or on the news,
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  Speaker 3: or if it happens to a relative, if it happens
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  Speaker 3: to friends, people that we know, we can actually experience
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  Speaker 3: racial trauma vicariously through other people and it can have it.
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  Speaker 3: And even when that when that happens, we still see
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  Speaker 3: those seven symptoms come up on the RBT triple S skill.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't want you to be mistaken because it's
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  Speaker 3: not happening directly to us, that it doesn't have a
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  Speaker 3: huge impact on us.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.