I’ve been extremely upset by the number of people I’ve seen recently claiming that ‘racism is a mental illness’, completely out of their asses. It hit a head with me the other day when I heard Charlamagne tha God (primary host of the breakfast club which is the largest nationally broadcasted black radio station in the country) say it on air while demonstrating a complete lack of understanding as to what mental illness even is.

I’m a medicated and functional schizophrenic who went through so many years of confusion and terror and struggle before I could find a way to live with it, s hearing Charlamagne (someone I truly admire) literally say that racism is ‘a form of paranoid schizophrenia’ really hurt me.

I’ve been telling people who’ve latched onto that idea (that racism is a mental illness) that it’s bullshit for YEARS, but I still struggle to articulate exactly why in a **concise and convincing** way to people who don’t know anything about the subject, so they try to defend it.

If anyone here is better at this than I am I would greatly appreciate your input, THANKS &lt;3