Following presentation of the four papers, the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astroria housed a lively, moving question and answer period. Each comment from the audience brought home one or another central message of the day and allowed the panel to further engage with the audience and with each other.

The discussion highlighted the fact that psychoanalysts need to engage the reality of racism and the way that racism violates our understanding of how children grow and develop. Two important facts were again made clear: 1) violence and trauma is something that happens to all our children; and 2) the African-American experience is rich and variegated, anyone who generalizes from the problems discussed during this panel to statements about THE African-American experience have missed the point and reproduced the very problem being discussed.

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