There are now some therapists that try to do a kind of race conversion therapy, where they try to…

…’t exist, you are wasting your time: This one throws me off every single time, but I hear it a lot. Some of my friends actually believe that if I didn’t think about racism, it wouldn’t affect me because it doesn’t exist. I’ve tried to make sense of this comment numerous times, but for me, it’s ludicrous. Racism exists …
8 Reasons Why My Black Friends Think I Should Stop Writing About Racism
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Zuri Stevens
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There are now some therapists that try to do a kind of race conversion therapy, where they try to make you ignore oppression because they think it will make you happier. I have met a few of these therapists. There are trainings about it. There are only so many times you can blame oneself for racism until it swallows you whole.
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Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.
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