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.
This article is loaded with truths on mental health realties within the black community. Side note: I always freeze when I see terms like 'Your Black Friends', 'My Black Friend' etc. When I see it coming from a Euro indigenous persons lens it leaves me feeling othered.
Thanks for looking out, but it's the little price we have to pay for EndBadGovernanceinNIGERIA
Very targeted article that undermines the healthy spirit of all skin shades. 'Black people on this planet R diverse & plentiful. Please write about your own personal mental health & not assume we are all suffering because you tell us so, and only because we R black or mixed.
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Leave them alone and quit being a Karen
what does the photo have to do with the subject Are you saying the sharing of blacks being killed by whites should be hidden like before the internet that not knowing will make Blacks healthier or make blacks that are in a mixed relationship more saner. Sharing is caring
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Very nice article. Unfortunately only a few will care. I think the time for repentance is over. What must be done, must be done.
sweeping statement but ok
Exhausted from the all the looting ? 😂
I'm exhausted from all the false claims of racism against white people. What about my mental health?
I don't have..but it's honorable for me If I can❤️❤️❤️
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