This Racism Is Killing Me Inside
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Having a Chronic Stressor That Impacts People of Color
There have been folk notions that health differences between populations such as black versus white in the US were somehow related to differences in our DNA. The stressors that impact people of color are chronic and repeated through their whole life course which increases a general health vulnerability. What's really happened is you're kind of worn down or weathered both by the chronic and repeated exposures to stressors and also by the high effort coping with them, says Dr Michael Brawley.
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