Miranda Thornton, PhD, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist LMFTS TX

08/14/2020

06/07/2020

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-mentality/202006/4-commonly-overlooked-forms-discrimination

Discrimination isn't always obvious, here are a few you may have missed.

06/05/2020

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/08/27/754459083/having-the-talk-expert-guidance-on-preparing-kids-for-police-interactions

A child psychiatrist, a public defender and a police officer weigh in on how to prepare kids for interacting with the police.

06/02/2020

This was helpful for me to read. Words from a friend:

Your black friend is trying to be ok.

Your Black friend in the past 30 days has watched a Black man get shot dead while jogging (Ahmaud Arbery), a Black woman get shot dead while sleeping (Breona Taylor), and the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Your Black friend has also listened to the President of the United States use segregationist words as a veiled threat.

Your Black friend is trying to be ok.

Please don't ask us about the looting.
Please don't chastise us about the rioting.
Please don't tell us that all lives matter.
Please don't minimize our fear.
Please don't bring up Black on Black crime.
Please don't ask "What about Chicago?"
Please don't say "if you'd just act like (A Wildly Successful Black Person... Usually Oprah, Obama, Colin Powell, Denzel or Will Smith)". Please don't judge us.

Your Black friend is trying to be ok.

Listen to your Black friend.
Empathize with your Black friend.
Support your Black friend.
Pray for your Black friend.
Pray with your Black friend.

Just let your Black friend know you really care.

Your Black friend will remember who truly had their back during this difficult time. They will remember who was more concerned about a looted Target. They will remember you posting a thinly veiled and racially offensive meme. They will remember you calling looters "Savages". They will remember your silence about their Black life and the Black Lives of others.

It's real easy.

Do whatever you can to help your Black friend out because your Black friend is trying to be ok.....

**Copied and pasted

06/02/2020

https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR3DkAuv0VV5XATpVDAiyaLVmzAgV-4Ey1mG536w98_Q7wCeaeRPtyPU3ls

05/29/2020

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/viral-videos-killings-black-men-takes-toll-black/story?id=70909409

Viral video of the killing of black men takes a toll on black male mental health, according to experts.