Since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month ago, many black people have reached the bottom of their emotional reserves.

I'm just bone tired. I'm bone tired of having the same conversation. And that

conversation is happening all over the world since George Floyd's death.

When you're watching the same story of racist violence over and over against people who look

like you, what are the effects on your own mental health?

That week. mental health.

That week I was in tears in between meetings and speaking to colleagues. Exhausting I think is probably the best way to describe it.

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When we started seeing the same video on our phones

This morning the FBI is looking into the death of a black man after he was stopped by police in Minneapolis.

A disturbing video shows the man pleading that he can't breathe as a white officer was kneeling on his neck.

I need to warn you here that it's very difficult to watch.

The video of last night's confrontation shows a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man

while he pleaded for his life. I was at home with my four-year-old daughter. I was answering

work emails, occasionally dipping into social media and whenever I play a

clip she always runs up to me, sits on my knee and we watch it together.

And this time she watched it and she just kind of snorted with laughter and said,

ha ha mummy, why is that man lying on the floor I mean what what do you

say to that she was too young, four years old to know, about the horror of racial violence and I wasn't going to tell her that day.

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