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“It’s vitally important that mental health care services are considered a basic human right.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
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-Shenita Etwaroo”
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“Anti-blackness, in a biological sense, then produces its own anti-whiteness. An illness of the mind, weaponized onto the body of the nation.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor wasn’t angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“white Americans are then, literally, dying of whiteness. This is because white America’s investment in maintaining an imagined place atop a racial hierarchy—that is, an investment in a sense of whiteness—ironically harms the aggregate well-being of US whites as a demographic group, thereby making whiteness itself a negative health indicator.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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