Black people are so damaged and traumatized and we don't even know it.
Just seeing images of ourselves being killed, raped, attacked, shamed, homeless, poor, in desperate situations is all trauma every day whether it's across the world, in the news, down the street, on the TV, a newspaper article.
We become de-sensitized to it.
Even situations we we're not directly affected, but it could've EASILY been us in that situation is scary, stressful and adds to the deterioration of mental health.
Like that case where the white lady for sentenced for 1 year for lying that two black guys raped here, look how easily that could've turned out for them? That could have been ANY one of us in that situation and that's the scary bit, that it only takes your skin colour and being in the wrong place at the wrong time to land you in jail or dead.
People laugh off mental health and say it's a weakness, but we're the ones that need it the most
There's been studies that show that trauma experienced in childhood or even generations ago can trickle down bloodlines and cause mental and physical health defects, never mind lack of education, poverty, lack of employment and all the other ails to our communities across the world, when the root of the issue starts from birth.... the other things only ADD to the issue make it worse and becomes a cycle that's impossible to tackle or get under control.
The Jews made sure they got their counselling and reparations from the Holocaust, why can't black people get the same? People get telling you have a chip on your shoulder, or your aggressive, have an attitude, play the struggle card...well yh being Black isn't a picnic.
There's no point denying the pain when your struggling to heal and not even know it.
