I Will No Longer Tolerate AntiBlackness in the American Psychiatric Association

“Yet another paper about racism, this paper is useless and potentially harmful, fails to recognize what’s already being done. The language used in the paper is divisive and derogatory.”

-Signed, Anonymous Colleague from the APA Assembly, November 2021

A generous clarification: Anti-Black racism is the name of the specific kind of racism directed towards Black people. Anti-Black racism includes prejudice, beliefs, stereotyping and discrimination that is directed at people…