Compassionate Understanding

We were talking about "contempt prior to investigation" at a noon meeting today... It occurred to me to think about generational trauma, as explained by Dr Gabor Maté on YouTube.
Have you ever been walking along and see a really big black man walking towards you, a frown on his face?
Were you at least a little apprehensive?
Think about this... 400 years of truly *horrific* trauma, building up, layer after layer, carried through generation after generation…