Racial Trauma Quotes

“Racial trauma is a common but underrecognized syndrome affecting millions of people of color in the Western world. Racial trauma refers to the severe mental and emotional injury caused by a multitude of experiences of racism compounded over a person's lifetime.”
― Monnica Williams, A Clinician's Guide to Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: A 12-Session CBT-Based Protocol

“Pressuring, demanding, or encouraging forgiveness from Black survivors may be used as a method to avoid the realities of systemic racism and racial trauma and used as a substitution for enacting substantive social justice.”
― Amanda Ann Gregory, You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms