Reply to "ACE's and Ethnic Oppression"

Jennifer Mourrain posted:
.... "Building resiliency" is meaningless rhetoric if there is no infrastructure to support its sustainability. And at the same time, the concept itself seems to be an oxymoron, because if you have a community that supports its inhabitants then why would you need to build resiliency in the first place?

Jennifer,

What a thoughtful and excellent question. It suggests that resilience is not the ultimate goal--as it is often, though perhaps unintentionally, framed to be. Rather, resilience is but an 'immediate care' strategy as we diligently and urgently transform society and its structures/processes/practices such that survivors of historical/racial trauma have a norm of health and equity. This conceptualization situates resilience en route to action upon the socialization structures/processes/practices that ultimately cause(d) inequity and racial trauma.

4/22/167:48 AM

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