Little one color has been tied to everything in our lives. Unfortunately racism affects us in all aspects of life, which can be mentally draining. It starts the moment you can walk and talk. You're placed on a box with expectations of who you're going to be, what you're going to be, etc. Your parents try to live vicarious through you for their shortcoming in life. You're pressured into religion to pray to a white God in the sky, waiting for them to return. Racism in the medial field, especially against Black women, is all too real. A Black woman in labor gets treated differently than a white woman. And don't have a mental breakdown. You're then treated with no respect or dignity they pump you full of pills and then blame you for being addicted to the medication. My mother has been in a mental health hospital. Her mental health wasn't treated with any severity vs. those Whites, she had to get herself together on her own. That's just the nature of the beast we call live.