The Impact of Racism Physical Body Impact Some

The Impact of Racism

Physical & Body Impact • Some signs of physical and body problems • • Headaches Stomach aches Difficulty sleeping Hard time focusing • When racism happens, it may be difficult to respond • Fight, flight, freeze • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ff. Sb Wc 3 O_5 M&t=16 s&ab_channel=Anxiety. C anada

Mental and emotional impact • Not feeling confident in yourself • You may have bad or negative thoughts about yourself, which does not make you feel good • Racism can cause different emotions to come up: • • • Sadness Anger Feeling grumpy Nervousness Fear

Racism Social Impact • School problems • Get in trouble more • Harder to go to college and graduate from college • Bad grades • Talking to others • Feeling like you’re different and don’t fit in • You may change some things about yourself to try to fit in • Hair • The way you talk • Clothes • People may talk about your hair or skin color and this may not feel good • What you see on social media (TV, Instagram, Tik. Tok) • Black people and other people of color being hurt by police officers • May feel unsafe or it may be hard to trust others

Personalizing the impact • Watch this short video about how a woman and her family experience racism. • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ks. Wac. Con. ZN w&ab_channel=IVP