Cara Elizabeth
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I am mentally ill. Racism is not a mental illness and it is incredibly offensive to characterize it as such. When something is a mental illness, it should be treated. Racism deserves no treatment, and none is effective. Even fighting back and showing the racist that all have worth leads to nothing more than stalemate.

Racism must be ripped out by the roots like an invasive plant. Not coddled and treated like an unfortunate psychopathology. Stop throwing the mentally ill under the bus in order to postulate a half-hearted quasi-solution to a Gordian knot of problems and priorities in this country. It’s ableist and ignorant.

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