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When I was a child I remember going to the corner store to get snacks for my brothers and niece, and watching as the group of older black men sat at the counter drinking beers for the day. At that time, I thought it looked so nice to sit with your friends and spend the day together laughing and watching TV. I had no reference for what addiction was even though it was around me constantly.



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In the neighborhood I lived in, it was not uncommon to see drug deals and overdoses out in the street. I did not understand the weight of alcoholism and drug addiction on life until I began to struggle with my own problems with alcohol. Since I started young, I considered drinking to be a method of survival. It was a way to get myself to the next day and away from the overwhelming emotion that plagued me at every moment. Like many black girls, I was taught that what I felt was either too much or unimportant; it was to be relegated to the confines of my body and not to be shared with others.


Redlining policies make it easier to dehumanize black people, keeping them away from the aid they needed while giving the appearance that the symptoms of their oppression were of their own making. For The Guardian, Brian Broome interviews Erica Upshaw Givner, the founder of Vision Towards Peace. Broome writes


Broome puts into words what many struggle to; the fear that you are fundamentally not cared for, that your status as an addict and a black person equates to worthlessness. This fear is coupled with a mistrust of institutions that comes from a long history of medical racism and eugenics disguised as treatment, such as the Tuskegee Experiment and the forced sterilization of black women.





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