The results of this study should come as no surprise to anyone with any sense. People often talk about PTSD and how soldiers suffer after coming home from their deployments. That’s a real thing. But few non-blacks seem to acknowledge the stress that black people have been enduring on a daily basis for the last 400+ years as we try to survive and be successful in a country that, for the most part, has always seen us as ‘lesser than’. That PTSD is also REAL.
pexels.com ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The rate of suicides among young African-American males aged 13-19 increased by a staggering 60% between 2001 and 2017. Furthermore, the overall number of African-American men committing suicide has risen considerably over the past 20 years. With these unsettling statistics in mind, researchers from […]
