Violence, Suicide & Grief: Numbing The Pain

Join some of The Barbershop Group members on August 10, 2018 as we discuss the impact of violence on Black men and the assumption that we are predisposed to violence as a result of nature. A closer look may reveal that violence isn't part of nature but of nurturing and environment. We'll ask what comes first? The chicken or the egg? Are Black men seen as inherently more violent and so desensitization ensues? Or are Black men desensitized resulting in violence? Just what happens in the mind when violence and the rumors of violence are perpetuated constantly? What happens when we witness violence either to ourselves or someone else and we can't process it? Does despair create some of this propensity? We know Black men die by suicide. Not as much as White men currently, but it is happening much more readily than we like to admit. We'll let one member share his personal struggle to come to grips with experience the loss of a loved one to suicide.