Racism Is An Addiction

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As people gather to protest the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmed Arbery and so many Black people before them, Nzinga takes the opportunity to talk about how racism biologically and psychologically impacts our black and brown communities. Yes, this kind of chronic trauma leads to increased substance use disorders. But even more so, this episode explores how racism itself is the addiction of America.

Please note, In Recovery contains mature themes and may not be appropriate for all listeners.

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Here are some resources for folks who want to learn more, donate, and take action.

● Anti-Racism Resources. This has podcasts, books, articles, and movies.

● 75 Things White People Can Do

● Our friends at PBS have a podcast, America Interrupted, about how coronavirus is changing the way we live, and how that impacts our communities of color.

● “What Does It Mean To Be Anti-Racist?” From the Racial Healing Handbook

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0:32.2	Lemonada.
0:41.0	Hey everybody, thanks for listening.
0:43.0	This is Inzinga Harrison.
0:47.3	Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Eleanor Health,
0:51.3	co-founder of Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform,
0:59.0	physician, psychiatrist, addiction expert, black woman, wife to Joel Harrison, who is a black man, daughter to Moja Ajabu, who is a black man, sister to Kofi,
1:07.0	Ajabu and Paul Huff. He had his own mother. That's why he has the last name Huff, who are both
1:12.8	black men and mother to my two sons, Zaire and Nassir, 13 and 14, who now that they are
1:20.4	older than the age of eight, no longer look like cute little boys to white people and police
1:26.2	officer, but instead look like threatening black
1:29.1	men. And by the way, I'm proud of myself for making it through that part about my kids without
1:35.7	crying that may be the first time. You can tell by that introduction that we're going to talk about
1:41.7	racism today. So we had a different show
1:44.3	queued up, but hopefully everyone is aware of what we're all going through as a country
1:51.6	as a result of the police killing of George Floyd. And I want to say that George Floyd's
1:58.5	murder is actually laying on top of three other kind of high profile events that have happened back to back to back.
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