Thank you, I wrote this in response to another piece, but it relates to your observations:

I am tired of being gaslighted. I am being negative if I highlight institutional racism. I am being negative if I mention my experiences of racism. These mindsets, I am told, are soul-destroying. Instead, we need to celebrate blackness. Likewise, it would be best if you celebrated LGBTQ+. Yes, one needs to celebrate, but we don't do this by excluding discussions on the problems faced by these groups. Never mind, they will tell you everything will be fine if we celebrate.

In these environments, you analyse yourself, telling yourself maybe the problem is you? Maybe, I am the negative one. Then, you undergo therapy and practice mindfulness in the hope of changing your mindset.

Corporations will actively encourage you to sign up for mindfulness apps. But, F**K, I still have to go out and navigate a hostile, anxiety-triggering environment every day. Anyhow, I should not use the word 'but'. Instead, I should take affirmative action. The term 'but' suggests indecisiveness.

Don't get me started on the psychiatric profession—one of the most racially biased disciplines. Psychiatry focuses on finding solutions within individuals whilst ignoring environmental influences. As I have stated, It is not a coincidence that psychiatry as a profession developed simultaneously with capitalism. Psychiatry's focus is on individuals' mental states. Historical, this profession has been used to support the idea that 'blacks' are more prone to mental illness because they are mentally more fragile or unstable.

Corporations like the Adidas of this world love this positive mindset. Positivity sells; let us celebrate black cultures and show them in a positive light. It will attract both the black and white youth market.

These organisations don't want to deal with the so-called negative aspects because to do so would illustrate that they are part of the problem. They require the system for them to succeed. So let us all sit around the mindfulness campfire and sing Kumbaya, my Lord.

Ah, mindfulness is the holy grail of individualism and the positive mindset. On the point of psychiatry, I came across this paper today, which blows a hole in their theory: "No convincing evidence" that depression is caused by low serotonin level": article published in the British Medical Journal. https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1808