The constant sharing of distressing footage on social media is seriously damaging to Black people’s mental health. Writer Rhea Cartwright explains how you can selflessly support your Black friends, family, and colleagues
As Walker adds, this feeling of malaise “undermines our day-to-day well-being and ability to function at an optimum level because it doesn’t go away. We try to fit in and ‘act right,’ but it doesn’t work like that. Black people cannot change who they are.”Black people are exhausted because we are overexposed to trauma. “Sometimes Black people can’t talk about depression and anxiety, but we can say, ‘I am tired,’ and that fatigue is synonymous with depression,” Walker explains.
The devastating irony that 65 years before, on the same day, was the acquittal of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s murderers. This social Groundhog Day feels forlorn and further highlights that any tangible taste of justice is still not within our grasp. It is mentally damaging having to simultaneously educate non-Black people on how to be anti-racist while having to defend the validity of why something is racist in the first place.
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