Coming up, the mental toll inflicted by white supremacy on the best of Black History year.

White supremacy is a horror you'll find at every turn. It's the very

foundation of governmental policies and the policing systems that target us. But don't take my word for it.

Jay shared a revealing conversation with psychologist Kevin Coakley in December 2020

about the pernicious psychological harm of white supremacy.

This is the best of black history here.

White supremacy is so pernicious, it is so pervasive that I feel comfortable as saying that it is

responsible for virtually every ill that we see within our communities and you

may not be able to directly see and understand the connection, but it's there. You'll find it embedded in every system there is.

It's the foundation of governmental policies that disadvantage us.

It lives rent-free in policing systems that target us.

And most dangerously, it has wormed its way like a parasite into the

psyche of black America.

So what do you do when the killer is inside the house?

When you begin to internalize that covert anti-Black rhetoric?

How do you defend yourself from the threat within?

I'm Jay from Push Black, and today on Black History Year,

we're talking about the psychological effects of white supremacy.

Joining us today is Dr. Kevin Coakley, a scholar, a researcher, and a black psychologist.

That is, he studies a field of psychology that specifically addresses the unique psychology of black people.

Much of his work centers on the development of black identity and

self-concepts, ideas he extensively explores in his book The Myth of Black

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