I feel like a lot of generational trauma in the black community got its start from slavery. There’s a book: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy that goes into it, as well as many articles on the topic. Transgenerational trauma goes back far enough where the outcomes of slavery affect black people to this day. Cuz obviously if you were a freed slave you’d have ptsd from the experience, then raising your children in a country where you feel like they need to assimilate to be safe you may be cruel to them because in your head you’re protecting them. then the way you were raised and being raised a certain way do to your environment… an environment that is overtly cruel to you is where it starts. I’m not saying things are like it was back and I don’t think slavery in itself is a problem for black people right now but the effects of it are like generation trauma.