At a black middle-class picnic in D.C., racism in election campaign hardly goes unnoticed - The Washington Post: ...A study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health pointed to a correlation between racism and depression among black men, especially those who try to deal with the stress alone — through “stoicism and emotional control.”
Black men 40 and younger were “more depressed, experienced more discrimination and had a stronger allegiance to norms encouraging them to restrict their emotions than men more than 40-years old,” according to researcher Wizdom Powell Hammond, assistant professor of health behavior at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. “[W]hen black men felt strongly about the need to shut down their emotions, then the negative effect of discrimination on their mental health was amplified.”
There are few places available for frank discussion about racism — a word that is often dismissed these days as representing a figment of the black imagination. Not even Obama, the first black president, has been able to seriously broach the subject.
