The Boston Globe reported last fall that three local therapists are campaigning for recognition of a new diagnosis: post-traumatic slavery disorder. Apparently, drug abuse, broken families, crime, and low educational attainment in segments of the black community can be directly linked to the trauma of slavery, and "black people as a whole are suffering from PTSD"—an abuse-excuse appeal for reparations if ever there was one. Satirists could barely contain themselves, proposing, among other new diagnoses, "post-traumatic birth disorder," defined as being "brought on by the pain, insensitivity, embarrassment, and forced relocation that the victims had to endure as a result of the birth process, not to mention the indignity and violence associated with that first spanking."