Great work, Thom. Liken this, though, if you will, please, the the kidnapping, enslavement, starvation, trans-Atlantic crossing, and work/rape/separation from family and children/systematic dehumanization/use of religion to manipulate/and on and on of African American people who were “freed” with no means of supporting themselves and then forced into sharecropping enslavement, living with Black Codes, in a twisted caste system based on fake science about racial inequality when it was all exactly what it is now: the white patriarchy exploiting the hell out of anyone and everyone other than “their own” for personal gain, pleasure, convenience, or sick enjoyment of their imagined “superiority.”

What Miller and Trump have done is horrific. Comparing horrors doesn’t get anyone anywhere, I suppose. But I believe what has happened to the families torn apart is now a traumatic enslavement.

What is well worth knowing is the LIFETIME consequences to these people.

Check out this blog on PACEs (positive and adverse) childhood experiences. This is public health data showing the increased likelihood of cancer, heart attack, premature death, addiction, being a victim or perpetrator of a violent crime, incarceration, teenage pregnancy, unemployability, and more. Google PACEs 101, PACEsConnection.com and take a look at the facts about toxic childhood stress and the increased likelihood of horrific longterm consequences.

You’re right. The thousands of people hurt by this are traumatized. The consequences were immediate and they are also across the lifespan and they are likely to be multi-generation, as in the genocide of Native Americans, kidnapping and enslavement of Africans, exploitation and enslavement of Chinese and Mexican people to work in mines and on railroads, internment of Japanese during WWII, and on and on until this latest atrocity, yet another war crime in the white patriarchy’s beat down of “other.”