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'Death by a thousand cuts': Microaggressions lead to worse mental health for Oregonians of color [opb.org]

 

By Samantha Matsumoto, Oregon Public Broadcasting, November 5, 2020

When Andrea Redeau walks down the street in Portland with her father, people suddenly go into their houses and lock the doors.

Thoughts start racing through Redeau’s mind: Is it because she and her father are two Black people walking in an overwhelmingly white city? Or is it just that those people needed to go into their house right then?

But, Redeau said, the fact that she has to ask herself those questions at all show her there is a problem.

“That thought that I have to have is racism. I shouldn’t have to think that,” she said. “There shouldn’t be a system built up to where my brain goes to, ‘Because me and my dad are walking down the street, that white couple decided to go into their house.’”

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