B757300 From United States, joined Dec 2000, 4114 posts, RR: 34 Posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 216 times:
Judge Rejects Slave Trauma as Defense for Killing
Monday, May 31, 2004
By: Holly Danks
HILLSBORO -- A Portland lawyer says suffering by African Americans at the hands of slave owners is to blame in the death of a 2-year-old Beaverton boy.
Randall Vogt is offering the untested theory, called post traumatic slave syndrome, in his defense of Isaac Cortez Bynum, who is charged with murder by abuse in the June 30 death of his son, Ryshawn Lamar Bynum. Vogt says he will argue -- "in a general way" -- that masters beat slaves, so Bynum was justified in beating his son.
The slave theory is the work of Joy DeGruy-Leary, an assistant professor in the Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work. It is not listed by psychiatrists or the courts as an accepted disorder, and some experts said they had never heard of it.
DeGruy-Leary testified this month in Washington County Circuit Court that African Americans today are affected by past centuries of U.S. slavery because the original slaves were never treated for the trauma of losing their homes; seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed; and being subjugated by whites.
This has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life. How anyone can be so freaking absurd to think anyone will believe such tripe is beyond my comprehension.
Seb146 From United States, joined Nov 1999, 6516 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 176 times:
But there could be other circumstances surrounding this. I have not yet read today's Oregonian (I live about 10 miles from Hillsboro) but one thing that has been front-and-center in the Portland area are shootings of African-Americans by Anglo-American officers in two separate incidents that outraged the minority neighborhoods. This could be a way of the lawyers playing on that and getting the jury, if they are minorities, to go easy on the guy. In my opinion, he beat a two year old. String him up by his stones right next to Ward Weaver.
AWspicious From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 162 times:
So, how does that explain the white folks who beat their kids?? Or, is there some equally ludicrous explanation to differentiate the two?
Hey... When your ass is on the line for murder, anything is worth a try, eh
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