PTSD and fringe groups of society - Result of suppression with EBD instead of free sharing.

"The suicide rate is particularly high among young AI males ages 15-24. Accounting for 64% of all suicides by AI/AN, the suicide rate of this group is 2 to 3 times higher than the general US rate (May, 1990; Kettle & Bixler, 1991; Mock, et al., 1996). In another survey of AI adolescents (N=13,000), 22% of females and 12% of males reported having attempted suicide at some time; 67% who had made an attempt had done so within the past year (Blum, et al., 1992).

Violent deaths (unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide) account for 75% of all mortality in the second decade of life for AI/ANs (Resnick, et al., 1997). According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publication, “AI/AN children and youth are a greater risk for preventable injury-related death then other children in the US” (CDC, 2007). Although AI/AN death rates from motor-vehicle crashes, pedestrian events, drowning, and fire decreased during 1989- 1999, the overall injury disparity compared with rates for whites persists.

AI/AN children and youth have not benefited to the same degree as white children and youth from interventions in areas such as traffic safety (i.e., increased child-restraint use, safety-belt use, and reductions in alcohol-impaired driving).

AI/ANs have the highest alcohol- related motor-vehicle-death rates of all racial/ethnic groups which place youth at risk when riding with impaired drivers or even as pedestrians. In states with reservations, an estimated 75% of suicides, 80% of homicides, and 65% of motor-vehicle-related deaths among AI/ANs involved alcohol. Young drivers are at risk particularly for dying in a car crash as a result of driver inexperience, nighttime driving, and alcohol use."
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"divided we fall"

if enough are divided
then all become fringes;
no color discrimination,
all equal as slaves.