Imagine that you’re in the middle of racist encounter. It might be someone following you in a store. You could be watching a video that captures someone who looks like you experiencing violence. You witness it and you know something bad is going down. Your mind isn’t simply reacting, your heart is, too.
What’s happening is “sympathetic overactivity,” explained Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who researches health disparities. When you can feel your heart beat intensely inside of your chest, or maybe sense a funny taste in your mouth, your body is recognizing that it’s facing an “unmitigated social threat.”
What racism does to your heart and your health (inquirer.com)
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