Black Gen X, Hidden Trauma, and the Lessons We Inherited

In The Know with Tony Reeves · May 20, 2026 · 9m

In this episode of The Anthony Reeves Experience, Tony Reeves reflects on what it means to be part of Black Generation X — a generation raised by parents, grandparents, and elders who lived through Jim Crow, segregation, discrimination, and daily racial hostility.Many of those elders did not share the full weight of what they experienced. They protected their children from the burden of the trauma, while still passing down the lessons they learned from surviving it.Tony discusses family history, his grandfather’s military service, his mother’s experiences, the silence surrounding racial…