Reaction Paper
While reading this book I agreed with the things said by the other. This book also reminded me of another book that I started reading a while ago “Post traumatic slave syndrome”. Like Post traumatic Slave Syndrome, Breaking the chains to psychological slavery discusses things that happened to slaves and then connects them to things that the decedents of those slaves are currently dealing with. Things such as Leadership; One point Na’im Akbar made about leadership was that “ any slave who began to emerge as a natural head, that is, one oriented toward survival of the whole body, was identified early and was either eliminated, isolated, killed, or ridiculed. In his or her place was put a leader who had been carefully picked, trained, and tested to stand only for the master’s welfare. (pg.9) He connected this to a more recent knowledge of African American leadership. “In the 1995 million man march when many traditional religious and political leaders rejected the......
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