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    Racism isn't just unfair. It's making us ill | Farrah Jarral

    The evidence is mounting – racial prejudice itself, and not just its knock-on effects, damages black and brown people’s bodies
    by Farrah Jarral Jul 26, 2020 4 minutes

    Last month, the radio presenter Clara Amfo explaining why she hadn’t been at work the day before at BBC Radio 1. “We talk a lot about mental health. And mine was in a really, really bad way yesterday.” She spoke candidly of sitting on the sofa in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, crying, confused, upset at the news of “yet another brutalised black body”, and being unable to just suppress this and chirpily ask on live radio whether everyone had had a nice weekend. Amfo concluded: “There is a false idea that racism, and in this case, anti-blackness, is just name calling and physical violence when it’s so much more

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