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CDC says black and latino youth suffer with ‘hood disease’





A report recently issued by the Centers for Disease Control has indicated a startling discovery. Inner city youth suffer from a unique form of “post- traumatic stress disorder” which the CDC researchers refer to as hood disease. The researchers have stated that inner city kids live in a war zone that they can never leave. Because of this, many kids have adopted attitudes and behavior similar to combat veterans and survivors of conflict zones.
San Francisco State University researcher Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D.,  stated to CBS, “You could take anyone who is experiencing the symptoms of PTSD, and the things we are currently emphasizing in school will fall off their radar. Because frankly, it does not matter in our biology if we don’t survive the walk home.”
The amount of shootings and murders are startling. In East Oakland, California alone there were 59 murders; nearly 2/3 of the city of Oakland’s murder totals are clustered in that in one area.  Teachers at Freemont High School in East Oakland report that kids walk around with laminated funeral cards of those killed around their necks. This behavior is similar to soldiers who often wear the dog tags of fallen comrades.
The CDC study goes on to state that nearly 30 percent of inner city youth suffer from hood disease, which is compounded by inner city poverty and violence.

2 Chronicles 7:
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Deuteronomy 28:
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Isaiah 30:
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

Jeremiah 30:
17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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