From Omowale Pan-African Library, posted by Dwayne Wong (Omowale)
Intergenerational trauma, on Steel Pan Vibes
Dwayne posted this Steel Pan Vibes radio interview to his channel. He is the guest, and he speaks throughout. Watch it on his channel, where the comments are.
This is a recording of the Steel Pan Vibes radio show on WWBC in Brevard County, Florida. Dwayne Wong (Omowale) appears as a regular monthly guest, introduced as a law student, writer and Pan-Africanist who has written seventeen books. The subject is the intergenerational transmission of trauma among African descendants.
Dwayne says trauma from extreme stress often passes to children subconsciously, and that African people carry it collectively as well as individually. He cites the abolitionist Martin Delany, who called African Americans a broken people, and scholars such as Frances Cress Welsing and Frantz Fanon. He points to Kenneth Clark’s doll test, in which Black children called a white doll prettier, a result the government of Trinidad and Tobago found again when it repeated the study.
He also names music, from the blues to calypso, and the steel pan as coping mechanisms African people built from oppression, citing the Tobago historian J.D. Elder, who taught gang members to play steel pan instead of fighting.
