@mindingmyblackownbiz, Black Royalty, wrote:
Dr. King was 39 when he was assassinated. His autopsy revealed he had the heart of a 60-year-old.
Let that sink in.
Racism isn’t just a social
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#blackpeople #health #racism #antiblack #mlk #jackierobinson #blacksports #blackmastodon
issue.
Chronic stress is physiological.
Racism has a cost.
The violence and pressure around MLK was constant.
His home was bombed in 1956 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott — his wife and baby were inside. He received relentless death threats. The FBI surveilled and
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harassed him for years. In 1958, he was stabbed in the chest in New York; doctors said a sneeze could have killed him.
So the toll on his body wasn’t abstract.
It was bombs. Threats. Physical assault. Constant fear and national pressure.
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@stuntedpeduncle wrote:
Yes, and they just released a study on the impact environmental sexism on women ,so Black [Women] are impacted twice - even more if they have a disability, are queer, etc.
[I tried to find the study to which you referred.
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I found this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251209-brain-scars-the-hidden-forms-of-sexism-that-harm-womens-health
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114926220162146397
@lakishabunny1, Black Royalty, replied:
Jackie Roninson aged in leaps because of constant concentrated racism. He looked like an old man when he died of a heart attack and he was only 53.
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@kt_sullivan22, a white man, wrote below. I mention that he is a white man bc over 75% white people are racist; so it's good to know that some are not. Source: https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114111660133660744
Scientific proof for those who doubt is covered in the book “Weathering:
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the Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society”. [ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61398908-weathering ]
@treescully, Black Royalty, shared the text and link below.
“Weathering” -Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16380565/
@nickyheartspubhealth, Black Royalty, wrote:
[MLK's] mother was assassinated during a church service
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If you read the post to which you replied you might notice the source of the fact to which you responded
It feels like you haven't read that at all yet.
People don't change so it's likely that you won't read the entirety of this reply either so I'm going to mute you
If you want people to fully engage with you, you have to fully engage with them too.
Be well
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
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